BOOK REVIEW
Start With Me
By Lilian Masitera
Published by Now I can Play publications (2011)
ISBN 0-7974-2515-2
FROM time immemorial, writers have used different types of literature to mirror society and, most importantly, to allow people to understand the world.
Through literature, some writers continue to challenge, ridicule and...
THE spike in COVID-19 cases and deaths is worrying to say the least.
In one way or another, everyone in this country is being affected by the scourge.
People are losing relatives, colleagues and friends everyday.
The virus is eating us away, but what are we doing...
By Dr Tafataona Mahoso
IN his book On The Shoulders Of The Struggle: Memoirs Of A Political Insider, Dr Obert M. Mpofu wrote this about the contrast between white settler-values on, and about, our land (which are still backed by the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic...
By Elizabeth Sitotombe
AS Zimbabwe fights the effects of the second wave of the coronavirus, the Government has authorised the use of a drug called Ivermectin for investigational treament of COVID-19.
COVID-19 has affected millions of people across the world and life, as we knew it,...
By Dr Tony Monda
NOW is the peak period for tick-borne diseases (TBDs) in Zimbabwe.
The hot, wet season is the ideal environment for ticks to breed.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), many cattle herds in Africa are depleted each year from vector-borne diseases...
By Dr Michelina Andreucci
WITH the rains upon us, wild flowers spring into life in the Zimbabwean veld yet, command floriculture is yet to be explored in this country.
A discipline of horticulture, floriculture, also known as flower farming, is the cultivation of flowering and...
By Dr Michelina Andreucci
ALTHOUGH in many ways, 21st Century farmers are not very different from the farmers who preceded them; they are hardworking, independent caretakers of land and animals at the mercy of the weather.
Successful farming in the 21st Century, however, requires knowledge not...
Let us remain resolute
THE year has begun on a sad note.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to rear its ugly head and claiming lives across the world.
Sadly, as a country, we have not been spared.
In recent days we have lost a number of our citizens and...
We must be responsible
THE spike in COVID-19 cases and deaths is worrying to say the least.
In one way or another, everyone in this country is being affected by the scourge.
People are losing relatives, colleagues and friends everyday.
The virus is eating us away, but what...
THE coming of the rains this 2020-2021 season, despite the renewed damper of the COVID-19 threat, has brought relief and joy to most; especially to farmers throughout Zimbabwe.
However, this euphoria can be short-lived for livestock farmers, in particular, who may continue lose their...
By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, South Africa.
ONE of the most curious and harmful lessons that Western animal rights groups continue to teach African rural communities co-existing with wildlife and the African public, in general, is: “Demand the arrest of chicken thieves and not wildlife...