UNTIL their recent revival, rehabilitation and promotion by the Second Republic led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, indigenous irrigation in Zimbabwe was undervalued to the extent that it did not feature in official statistics and policies, as can be seen in the table below, despite...
CHOLERA spread across the world during the 19th Century, from its original reservoir in the Ganges Delta in India.
Six subsequent cholera pandemics have killed millions of people across all continents.
The current (seventh) pandemic started in South Asia in 1961; reached Africa in 1971...
THE right to clean water and universal health is a human right enshrined in the UN Human Rights Charter for everyone to enjoy; Zimbabwe being a signatory to the UN Charter on Human Rights is no exception.
Further, the provision of safe clean water...
WATER resource management in Zimbabwe continued to be governed by the 1976 Water Act, decades into independence.
The water reforms that culminated in the 1998 Water Act began as a direct reaction to the 1991/92 drought, the worst in the country’s history.
The setting up...
SETTLER-farmer-initiated furrow irrigation took place in Rhodesia with the help of missionaries, between 1912 and 1927.
To help white farmers further develop their irrigation schemes, the government of Rhodesia took over in 1928.
While they retained control of the irrigation schemes, the management of communal irrigation...
THE South African connection had a strong influence on some aspects of water management in Rhodesia.
Here, the settlers, encouraged by the British South Africa Company (BSAC), used the Roman Dutch Law, brought from Holland and used in South Africa.
But this was regarded as...
WHILE it is an accepted fundamental that successful agricultural production depends on access to agricultural land, markets, affordable finance, appropriate technologies and adequate transport network, measures must be taken to protect society, especially the indigenous smallholder farmer.
With an estimated 70 percent of Zimbabweans living...
AS in most countries around the world, agriculture in South Africa has a central role to play in building a strong economy and, in the process, reducing the apartheid-induced inequalities inherited from the past.
The goal of the policy was to increase incomes and...
THE novel coronavirus and its variants and mutations has been with us for close to three years.
Although the pandemic has, by-and-large, been controlled, the virus has, nonetheless, taken its toll on collective populations. While its socio-economic, health and clinical impacts are still being felt...
AS a young medical student in the US, I was also privileged to cover medical law — a relatively new addition to the academic curriculum.
The subject was enormously popular among the students and its journey from being a minor legal subject to a fully-fledged...
THERE are now more opportunities within the provisions of IEL, for non-State actors to engage.
This was called for in Agenda 21, of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 3-14 1992.
Section III of Agenda 21...
THE legal compartmentalisation, sometimes known as ‘fragmentation’, that is evident within public international law as a whole, also exists within the different subsets of international law and is clearly evident within the international environmental law (IEL).
It manifests in the large number of individual International...
