IN June 2008, the US and the UK almost succeeded in getting the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe under the pretext that Zimbabwe had become a threat to international peace and security simply because the outcome of the elections that had...
AN old belief assumed that crop and stock farmers in Zimbabwe did not need to be literate.
However, in this age of information revolution, climate change and its attendant pests and animal diseases, literacy and knowledge are crucial for all professional agricultural workers.
A book...
WHILE global focus is on the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, it is the manner in which the latter has treated black people as well as the brazen violation of supposed principles by FIFA that has become a cause for concern for progressive...
THE seasonal resurgence of Theileriosis in Zimbabwe for the past two decades has been cause for concern.
While veterinary research and epidemiology have evolved and improved to address agro-bio-societal changes – chief among them, the eradication of agricultural pests and livestock/animal diseases important for...
BEFORE the West became the leading civilisation, the East, particularly China, occupied this high position.
Few people know that most of the technology, clothing and furniture that we use in our day-to-day lives and consider to be Western were actually from the orient.
The reason we...
THE powerful presentation by firebrand South African opposition party EFF leader Julius Malema at the Johannesburg High Court is yet another confirmation that South Africa is stuck in a vortex in so far as pan-Africanism is concerned.
The presentation was during the ongoing civil case...
DESPITE the wide use of Western medicine, traditional medicine has remained the most affordable and easily accessible source of treatment in the primary healthcare system of resource-poor communities in Zimbabwe.
Here, the local indigenous people have a long history of traditional plant usage for medicinal...
FOOD production has experienced massive shifts in the past century with the rise of agricultural technologies, enhanced refrigeration and transportation systems, but most importantly, the globalisation of markets.
The forces of globalisation have deeply transformed agricultural production in many countries.
Export-driven agricultural production has significantly increased...
THE Western perception of Christ is purposely distorted.
Christ is depicted as a Caucasian man who is the only son of God and to him are attributed a virgin birth and physical resurrection shortly after his execution.
But is this perception of Christ based on the...
WESTERN education, particularly science, tries to teach us that human beings are equivalent to animals; that we live and die like any other creature and life ends when one physically dies.
Thus the saying: “You only have one life to live.”
Western missionaries tried to sell...
THE number of hungry people around the world continues to rise and it is now estimated by food agencies that there is an estimated two billion people facing food insecurity globally at a ‘moderate or severe level’.
In Zimbabwe, years of poor rainfall, crop...
THE number of hungry people around the world continues to rise and it is now estimated by food agencies that there is an estimated two billion people facing food insecurity globally at a ‘moderate or severe level’.
In Zimbabwe, years of poor rainfall, crop...
