THE reason Harare has adopted the ‘Nyika inovakwa nevena vayo’ policy as the bedrock of the new dispensation’s economic revival efforts is because our erstwhile colonisers and their allies are relentless in their pursuit of regaining ownership and control of the country’s land and...
ACKNOWLEDGING that Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector has suffered from years of decline, the then Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water, Climate and Rural Development, the late Perrence Shiri, drafted the National Agricultural Policy Framework (NAPF) 2018-2032 to provide policy guidelines for revamping this vital sector...
EASTER is a festival and holiday celebrated by millions of people around the world who honour the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred three days after his crucifixion at Calvary.
Easter is a ‘movable feast’, chosen to...
THE gruesome murder of Zimbabwean citizen Elvis Nyathi in South Africa last week has once again brought to the fore several issues that need to be tackled as a matter of urgency in both Pretoria and Harare if the dream of a united Africa...
THERE are many things that have been laid bare by the March 26 2022 by-elections, such as the fact that ZANU PF is the Party of choice, but the most interesting one is the bizarre attempt by Nelson Chamisa’s CCC to portray itself as...
HILLBOM AND SVENSSON (2013) asserted that: “… no country has sustained a transition out of poverty and food insecurity without raising agricultural productivity.”
Through its effects on food and labour prices, agricultural productivity growth is the catalyst for broader processes of economic structural transformation in...
OUT of the many lessons that can be drawn from the recently held by-elections, one that stands out is that, what builds and binds us, as a country, is far much bigger than that which divides us.
It is always important to keep in mind...
WHEN I left the US in 2009, scientists there had already started researching on digital Apps for detecting diseases in cattle and other domestic animals.
By 2014 they had launched several new Apps for the prevention, surveillance and monitoring of veterinary diseases.
After the successful...
THE world’s attention has once again been drawn to US President Joseph Biden’s hilarious branding of Russian leader Vladimir Putin as a ‘war criminal’ but the reality is Russia is clearing the many uncertainties that had confronted the world over the years due to...
THE Chinese are an advanced people.
They have risen in terms of development faster than any other nation in our era.
Just 60 years ago, China was undergoing sanctions from the West and remained isolated for three decades.
Yet today China is a world giant, with a...
THERE are no wars without ‘blitzes’, where industry and economies are paralysed.
The immobilisation or paralysing of key resources in Rhodesia by liberation fighters was part of a military plan to get the minority white regime to concede defeat – to literally stop the...
THE decision by the UK to slap seven Russian businesspeople with travel bans and freezing of assets on Thursday last week is yet another testimony that the West’s relentless bid to control the world knows no limits and needs to be curtailed as a...
