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Baby Mouse and Baby Snake

BABY MOUSE went out into the field to play. She met Baby Snake. They became friends. They spent all day playing games. At sundown they broke company and went to their respective homes. In the Mouse household Mrs Mouse asked her daughter how she had spent her day and...

Colonial injustices: The time for reparations is now

AS previously colonised nations continue to call for closure and justice for crimes against humanity that were committed by their erstwhile colonisers, the question that begs is: Are ‘apologies’ enough?  Zimbabwe has been subjected to heinous post-colonial trauma by its former coloniser, Britain, which has...

Reparations: Justice delayed is justice denied . . . bygones cannot be bygones

By Elizabeth Sitotombe FOR centuries, Africa has borne the brunt of European colonial brutality.  The story,...

Reparations — Part 2 …damned if you do and damned if you don’t

AFRICAN scholarship has ignored to study the history that leaves no illusion as to...

Kamandama mine disaster, 53 years on

By Simon Ngena TO date, mine accidents continue to be a scourge in the murky...

Time to trust in the power of the small

IN this week’s edition we talk of the importance of the smallholder farmer. The smallholder farmer...

Doing away with the culture of dependency

THE  opening of the Trabablas Interchange is indeed more than a celebration of brick, mortar and homegrown...

End the pitbull menace now!

EDITOR — I am writing with grave concern over the continued breeding and ownership...

Let’s learn from the cooperative spirit of Tajikistan . . . rural farmer key to sustainable development

WE, in the village, are tickled by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s working visit to Tajikistan more so...

The Trabablas Interchange … just a beginning, not the end

By Mthokozisi Mabhena THE completion and opening of the Trabablas Interchange does not simply signify the completion of...

“Witch-hunters’ divide rural communities …deplete cattle kraals, goat pens and fowl runs”

By Simon Ngena SUPERSTITION is considered a harmless phenomenon amongst a lot of people which...

Artistes who put Africa on the world map

By Fidelis Manyange AFRICA’s music talent gained international recognition in the late 1950s through various...

Theology won’t stop Nehanda’s renaissance

By Nthungo YaAfrika THE ‘modern-day’ African was taught to believe that theology is synonymous with the divine...

Heritage-based education under siege

THERE is an insidious misrepresentation of heritage-based education, one that seeks to relegate it...

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Baby Mouse and Baby Snake

BABY MOUSE went out into the field to play. She met Baby Snake. They became friends. They...

Colonial injustices: The time for reparations is now

AS previously colonised nations continue to call for closure and justice for crimes against...

Reparations: Justice delayed is justice denied . . . bygones cannot be bygones

By Elizabeth Sitotombe FOR centuries, Africa has borne the brunt of European colonial brutality.  The story,...

Reparations — Part 2 …damned if you do and damned if you don’t

AFRICAN scholarship has ignored to study the history that leaves no illusion as to...
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