MY article titled ‘Goat breeding: Reviving an ancient Zimbabwean livestock heritage’ resulted in overwhelming enquiries from readers.
I found it pertinent to re-visit the subject; more so, since over this past week I received several enquiries from distraught goat keepers/farmers with sick stock, and who...
…will Africa have capacity to produce own vaccine?
By Dr Michelina Andreucci
SINCE the outbreak of COVID-19, governments the world over have come together in their attempts to develop a vaccine to fight the contagion.
The vaccines would necessitate custom formulation, special packaging, transportation and storage in...
By Dr Masimba Mavaza
IN this very silent place, the only sound you hear is your breathing.
In that extreme silence, there is a pounding sound piercing through your mind.
Maybe you have to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you have to travel...
LET us take a moment to reflect.
In Harare lies a place called Africa Unity Square, which Rhodesians called Cecil Square.
Of course, we changed the name, but the supreme symbol of Britannia remains deeply etched at the centre of Harare.
It is not so obvious to...
COVID-19 can be defeated
THE launch of the vaccination programme on February 18 at Wilkins Infectious Diseases Hospital is a significant milestone in the battle, not only to contain, but also to eventually rid the country of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
It is a huge battle...
By Dr Tafataona Mahoso
THE last instalment grappled with the need to distinguish the values that motivated the African land reclamation movement and land revolution from the values that motivated so-called ‘white commercial farmers’ who are, in fact, mostly heirs of the white invaders of...
Talk about leadership skills
Rumble in the Jungle
By Norman Moyo
Published by Porcupine Press (2014)
ISBN: 978-1-920609-74-0
LEADERSHIP is a fundamental needed for the success and development of any given community.
It is through good leaders that members of society can be able to achieve greatness and be successful...
We will prosper despite hurdles
THE message from the 348th Ordinary Session of the Politburo delivered by President Emmerson Mnangagwa is heartening and encouraging.
We must fight on.
Loud and clear the message is.
Indeed the painful experiences of the liberation struggle did not reverse or discourage the...
...the cost of fighting a virus
By Dr Michelina Andreucci
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) established a multinational coalition of vaccine scientists defining a global Target Product Profile (TPP) for COVID-19, identifying favourable attributes of safe and effective vaccines under two broad categories: ‘Vaccines for the...
By Eunice Masunungure
BREXIT, an acronym for the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, is proving the UK cannot do without Africa as evidenced by the recent vindictive sanctioning of other countries and the trade deals that it has entered with entirely the whole of sub-Saharan...
By Dr Irene Mahamba
ZIMBABWE is founded on the spirit of self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of thousands who laid down their lives for others, thousands who endured nightmares of agony to rescue their country from the British imperialists.
The sacrifice of our people runs from those murdered...
...will Zimbabweans benefit?
By Dr Tony Monda
NEXT to hunting, agriculture is the oldest industry known to man, and is certainly no stranger to technological change.
For instance, the industrial revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries replaced hand-held tools and horse-drawn ploughs with fuel-driven machines...