THE various domestic-woven reed and palm fronds (murara) craft wares offered by indigenous Zimbabwean craftspeople around the city and suburbia are worth investing in.
Trust Chimene is a versatile, multi-talented Zimbabwean craftsman specialising in traditional woven reed art.
The metalsmith, basketweaver and furniture makerbelieves that COVID-19...
AFRICA is contemporarily classified as a ‘Third World’, ‘underdeveloped’ or ‘poor continent’.
Yet even the Westerners who call it such know that Africa is, and has always been, the richest continent on earth, not only in terms of bountiful natural resources, like minerals, fertile land,...
WHILE the new dispensation has come up with an array of strategies to create value out of land since coming into office in November 2017, two critical interventions, which have underlined the Second Republic’s push to revive the agriculture and mining sectors, are already...
THE African nationalists rejected the outcome of the Constitutional Conference which opened in London on December 16 1960 and boycotted the referendum held on July 26 1961 to accept or reject the resultant Constitution.
The white electorate approved it and the National Democratic Party (NDP)...
IT was, in the end, a reincarnation of the all too familiar tale; failure to rise to the occasion and failure to prove that, in the Warriors, we have a team that is capable of meeting the country’s expectations.
May be we have been blighted...
WHILE industrial agriculture aimed to lower costs and increase productivity, the methods of industrial agriculture also have raised issues and unintended consequences and challenges.
The degree and significance of these unintended consequences and challenges is subject to debate, as is the question of the best...
I OFTEN hear businessmen and women saying they are increasing prices of their products, not because the order price increased, but because of other factors like transport or storage costs.
While it is good and logical to account for such costs in the selling price...
OVER the past few years, I have been advocating sustainable industrialisation of our agriculture if Zimbabwe is to achieve the economic realities in agricultural production as advocated by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and other agencies.
The approaches of industrial agriculture are...
THE end of the Second World War brought with it ‘winds of change’, one of which was the rise of militant African Nationalism – a communal desire for self-determination, sovereignty, self-rule or independence based on shared social characteristics of culture, ethnicity, geographic location, language,...
CHRISTMAS is largely regarded as the most important day of the year by many African countries, particularly former European colonies.
New Year’s Day, which comes less than a week after Christmas Day, is given just as much importance and, jointly, this period, which falls around...
WESTERN ‘democracy’ has limited and inhibited progress and development in developing countries; it is a lie.
It sounds like a good thing but is, in fact, a tool used by so-called super powers to suppress weaker nations.
The powerful and influential use their economic and political...
WE are going to get straight to the point and state that we are firmly in agreement with the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC)’s decision to dissolve the country’s mother governing body, ZIFA Board, for gross incompetence, misappropriation of funds, failure to deal with...
