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Kariba Municipality commits to President’s service delivery blueprint

By Kundai Marunya IT is rare to find opposition-controlled urban councils throwing their weight on developmental issues instigated by the central Government. In many cases, urban councils have openly fought the Government when it comes to measures that address service delivery issues. This is at a time...

The resurgence of Theileriosis in 2024 

THE issues of global changes, climate change and tick-borne diseases cannot be ignored, given they are now becoming the order of the day.   Cattle and other livestock, the world over, are experiencing both ecological and biological stress which could affect the wellbeing of livestock...

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The Harare Agricultural Show review’…field to industry; produce, connect and develop’

AUGUST is the time of year that the Zimbabwean farming community and related national...

Mugabe: Portrait of a President

THE nation’s shadow ‘mvuri wenyika’ Cde Robert Mugabe is no more.   As dark, cold...

Deconstructing Zim’s Command Agric Programme: Part Two…farmers should deliver on mandate

IT has come to mind that many post-1980 youths do not appreciate the value,...

Deconstructing Zimbabwe’s Command Agriculture Programme: Part One…land reform there to stay

OF late, the noble and magnanimous indigenous socio-agro developments of the land reform and...

Defending our cattle herd …time to act!

THE origins of Southern Rhodesia’s Veterinary Department were linked to the need to control...

Thousands of African cattle looted…institutionalising theft

A DROUGHT in 1941 forced most big employers, such as the railways and mines,...

Beef control during Second World War

DURING the course of  the Second World War (1939-1945/6), the African peasantry was forced...

Revisiting Zim’s cheese heritage

IN line with President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration’s vision to transform the economy into an...

The politics of archaeology

ARCHAEOLOGY was once the domain of settler-colonisers who examined excavated archeological finds, artefacts and...

Cattle ranching in the early years: Part Seven

GODFREY HUGGINS, the then Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, felt that Africans would prefer...

Cattle ranching in the early years: Part Six…beef control during the war

PRIOR to 1939, the Southern Rhodesian Government’s policy towards the cattle beef industry was...

Cattle ranching in the early years: Part Five …the unexpected blessing of World War II

THE Second World War was a blessing in disguise for the Southern Rhodesian beef...

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Kariba Municipality commits to President’s service delivery blueprint

By Kundai Marunya IT is rare to find opposition-controlled urban councils throwing their weight on...

The resurgence of Theileriosis in 2024 

THE issues of global changes, climate change and tick-borne diseases cannot be ignored, given...

Britain haunted by its hostile policy on Zimbabwe

TWO critical lessons drawn from the recent debate on Zimbabwe in the British House...

The contentious issue of race

 By Nthungo YaAfrika AS much as Africans would want to have closure to many of...