Dr Tony Monda

Leonard Dembo: The untold story 

By Fidelis Manyange  LAST week, Wednesday, April 9, marked exactly 28 years since the death of sungura legend Leonard Dembo.  He died in 1996.  Dembo’s real name was Leonard Tazvivinga as opposed to Kwangwari Gwaindepi as is widely reported.  In fact, Kwangwari Gwaindepi was his grandfather and that...

Unpacking the political economy of poverty 

IN 1990, soon after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela, while visiting in the US, was asked by one African- American woman from Harlem what plans he had for a free South Africa since all newly independent African countries never seemed to have the...

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Agriculture for sustainable growth: Part Two…promotion of ICTs necessary

ACKNOWLEDGING that Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector has suffered from years of decline, the then Minister...

Is Easter relevant to Zimbabweans?…it’s time to introspect

EASTER is a festival and holiday celebrated by millions of people around the world who...

Agriculture for sustainable growth…local development, rehabilitation and modernisation

HILLBOM AND SVENSSON (2013) asserted that: “… no country has sustained a transition out...

Digital surveillance of diseases

WHEN I left the US in 2009, scientists there had already started researching on...

Cattle, conflicts and diseases

THERE are no wars without ‘blitzes’, where industry and economies are paralysed.   The immobilisation...

Zoonoses — animal diseases and man

AN old belief assumed that crop and stock farmers in Zimbabwe did not need...

Eradicating Theileriosis in Zimbabwe…urgent intervention required

THE seasonal resurgence of Theileriosis in Zimbabwe for the past two decades has been...

Traditional medicine: Back to basics — Part One …shifting to herbal therapies

DESPITE the wide use of Western medicine, traditional medicine has remained the most affordable...

lmpact of Govt policies on agric production

FOOD production has experienced massive shifts in the past century with the rise of...

IFAD: When food security matters

THE number of hungry people around the world continues to rise and it is...

IFAD: When food security matters

THE number of hungry people around the world continues to rise and it is...

Weaving wealth from nature

THE various domestic-woven reed and palm fronds (murara) craft wares offered by indigenous Zimbabwean...

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Leonard Dembo: The untold story 

By Fidelis Manyange  LAST week, Wednesday, April 9, marked exactly 28 years since the death...

Unpacking the political economy of poverty 

IN 1990, soon after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela, while visiting in the...

Second Republic walks the talk on sport

By Lovemore Boora  THE Second Republic has thrown its weight behind the Sport and Recreation...

What is ‘truth’?: Part Three . . . can there still be salvation for Africans 

By Nthungo YaAfrika  TRUTH takes no prisoners.  Truth is bitter and undemocratic.  Truth has no feelings, is...