By Shephard Majengeta
AS the first quarter of the year winds down, it is heartening to learn that the country’s consumer spending is on an up-ward trajectory.This development augurs well with our pursuit of Vision 2030, which aims to elevate Zimbabwe to an upper middle-income...
By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA
ZAMBIA’s ‘Kenyan-style’ moment-of-madness-cancellation of legal international hunting tender was recently denounced and ruled as illegal by the country’s high court, giving local hunting communities’ hope that uninterrupted international hunting will return in 2024.
Largely influenced by the animal rights extremist...
By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA
A US-based NGO has welcomed a report that Austrian scientists have developed a new artificial ivory product, Digory, that looks and feels like the real thing.
The managing director of the US-based Ivory Education Institute, Godfrey Harris (pictured), thinks that when...
By Eunice Masunungure
THE latest attempts by desperate MDC leader Nelson Chamisa to attack President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s interventions on COVID-19 are part of that party’s long-held plan for the UN to deploy a ‘peace keeping’ mission to this country.
Besides seeking to score cheap political points,...
By Dr Michelina Andreucci
SINCE the ‘reserve’ was considered to ‘lack any distinct topographical features’, it was considered preferable to divide it into zones on a vegetation and soil basis and, as a result, five fairly distinct zones can be differentiated.
These were:
λ The Mopane Zone,...
By Catherine Murombedzi
MUFAKOSE HIGH DENSITY SUBURB in Harare never ceases to amaze; each sunrise to dusk, an episode to Zimbo life plays out!
What takes place in Mufakose mirrors Mabvuku, Glen View and other high density suburbs nationally.
A colleague from my school years in the...
By Eunice Masunungure
ZIMBABWE has continued to tread on the side of caution to save lives by gradually relaxing the lockdown enforced to curb the spread of COVID-19.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has clearly stated that: “We would rather err on the side of caution and not...
Ubuntu/hunhu,
By Catherine Murombedzi
A JIGSAW puzzle gets exciting as one pieces the missing links into place.
The picture gets clearer and one gets a feeling of satisfaction as the puzzle nears completion.
Eureka, is the feeling of satisfaction when done!
Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, a...
By Dr Irene Mahamba
THEY fought and won.
Everyone who fights and wins wants to receive a prize, a reward as well as savour the fruits of sacrifice.
But this is where revolutionary heroes differ from all others; Olympiads, football and basket-ball greats. The freedom fighter, on...
By Elizabeth Sitotombe
FREEDOM is the power or right to act, speak or think as one wants.
The state of not being imprisoned or enslaved, of not being subject to or affected by (something undesirable).
Colonialism is the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial control...
By Gracious Mugovera
THERE is a picture which circulated on different social media platforms showing an Italian man as the only person attending his mother’s funeral.
This was a surprise to many, especially to those from African societies.
In Africa, it is custom for relatives and neighbours...
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IN the mid-20th Century, the term agrarian or land reform was an abhorrence in most of the First World.
Typically, the American Government either disregarded or ignored it when it happened, or disapproved of it altogether.
When Fidel Castro, from Cuba, declared his agrarian reform...
