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Diseases that affect goats: Part One…need for education on diseases

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...

The cost of fighting a virus: Part Three

…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...

Homesickness in the Diaspora

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...

EDITOR’S NOTE

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...

COMMENT

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...

Nhaka vs tenancy on resettled land in Zimbabwe

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...

BOOK REVIEW

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...

EDITOR’S NOTE

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...

African response to COVID-19 vital: Part Two

...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...

UK can’t do without Africa

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...

Spirit of sacrifice not dead in Zim

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...

The future of farming

...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...

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