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Chimoio: Murder most foul

This story was first published in The Patriot on November 24 2022. YOU are standing beneath the leafy trees of Chishawasha Hills, a plane flies over you, a little too low and something changes in you, for a fleeting moment it all comes back, for a...

Man and money: Part Seven …rise of the colonial enterprise

SOME merchants ran factories, from which came metals, glass and candles, among many other products.  Others, in New England and New York, sponsored whaling expeditions and owned facilities that reduced the whale carcass to meat, bones and whale oil.   From the ranks of merchants came...

Favour in context: Part 19 …disorientation

SOWE rekuDomboshava had been the pastor’s choice. He had said that there was power in those mountains; power to unlock God’s favour. His sermon on God’s favour had been inspiring. He had said: “God’s favour will give you the job you don’t qualify to have.  “God’s favour will...

What’s Wrong With UN CITES?

By Emmanuel Koro,  in Johannesburg, SA A US-based cultural organisation has started asking some tough questions about what’s wrong with CITES – the UN designated international wildlife trade regulating agency.  Nothing at all, if judged by other UN agencies.  It functions efficiently, organises meetings effectively, responds to assignments...

Man and money: Part Six …rise of tobacco as a currency

IN the 1700s, the colonial economy in America was dominated by two types of workers: farmers and merchants.   This is to say it was agrarian, with the merchants’ major task being to market the crops grown by farmers and use the proceeds to make purchases...

Revamping ZANU PF for posterity

THE announcement, by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, of the amendments to the ZANU PF Constitution designed to focus on economic development was well-timed. The Party is alive to the threats to its survival and that of fellow liberation movements across the African continent. Zimbabwe has been under...

Empowerment with women in mind

“WE had political ideas that recognise that women are equal partners in transformation. We do not have to struggle against tradition because the political atmosphere recognises the equality of women. What is left for us is to take up the challenge,” said Ropa Rinopfuka,...

Favour in context: Part 18 …reality check

SOWE rekuDomboshava had been the pastor’s choice. He had said that there was power in those mountains; power to unlock God’s favour. His sermon on God’s favour had been inspiring. He had said: “God’s favour will give you the job you don’t qualify to have.  “God’s favour will...

Man and money: Part Four …the rise of slavery

IN 1672, the Royal African Company was organised to take over all of England’s African affairs, and the Dutch were displaced.   In 1713, the Spaniards recognised England’s supremacy in the slave trade by granting the Guinea Company an asiento to supply the Spanish colonies...

Favour in context: Part 17 …humiliation of the MP

SOWE rekuDomboshava had been the pastor’s choice. He had said that there was power in those mountains; power to unlock God’s favour. His sermon on God’s favour had been inspiring. He had said: “God’s favour will give you the job you don’t qualify to have. God’s favour...

Is UN arbiter of peace or toothless bulldog?

SINCE 1945, October 24 is set aside to celebrate UN Day, meaning this year marks the 78th year since the grouping of nations was established. The day marks the anniversary of the day the UN Charter entered into force in 1945. In his message for this...

Water use by farmers in Zim: Part Four …the birth of ZINWA

THE Plymouth Company sent its first vessels to North America in 1607.  Two ships landed near the Kennebec River in Maine early in the year, and a rough fort was built close to the river’s mouth.   A handful of settlers remained in the colony during...

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