A PLAYFUL middle-aged civil servant wanting to make an older civil servant uncomfortable said: “Mdhara makura. Chiendai munozorora mwana wenyu apindewo basa. You cannot spend your whole life locating dusty files.”
The older civil servant laughed it off.
He nodded to the Director’s office and said:...
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was in his early teens when he committed to ZANU to be trained as a freedom fighter.
The late Dr Felix Muchemwa was a teenager studying medicine at the University of Rhodesia when he overturned Harry Margolis Hall, smashing tables, furniture and...
By Evans Mushawevato and Emergencey Mwale-Kamtande
NOT very long ago, driving along our highways, thatched little huts, zinc roofed tiny houses were all our eyes could experience but not anymore.
With the successful Land Reform and Resettlement Programme and opening up of the mining sector to indigenes,...
AS countries have developed and economies and populations have expanded, more and more greenhouse gases have been released into the atmosphere.
The concentration of carbon dioxide has risen as global average temperatures have increased. Although Zimbabwe and the rest of Africa have not contributed significantly...
THE husband of the woman who had been beaten-up by her friend’s housemaid and was not angry that his wife had been beaten up had prepared his own breakfast without the help of his sullen wife.
He had said to the independent woman: “I have...
CLIMATE change is today the defining issue of our time; from variable weather patterns that threaten food production, to rising temperatures and sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic flooding.
The impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in scale.
Climate change...
WOMEN and girls in Africa are underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines.
A recent report by Brookings states that in sub-Saharan Africa, a mere 31 percent of science researchers are women compared to 49 percent in South East Europe and in the...
By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA
AGAINST the background where the British parliamentarians will in March 2023 debate the proposed international hunting trophy imports into Britain from anywhere worldwide, including Africa, let it be known that a ban will hurt wildlife-rich rural economies of Southern...
THE man whose wife had refused to be touched was showing his guests a selection of videos.
In one of them Robert Mugabe was saying: “We are supposed to be free and independent Mr Ban Ki-moon. Supposed to be free
As 54 countries, we come to...
ONE thing the whiteman will never forget is that Zimbabwe is a land of unparalleled fighters who will ever challenge anything in their path which is not correct.
Chimurenga warriors launched the First Chimurenga with a war dance at a cattle village in Essexvale (now...
AS the saying goes, ‘you are what you eat’, our bodies tell when we are hungry, when we are tired or ill and even the kind of food we consume
For good health everyone must have reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable and...
By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA
HISTORICALLY African women have been said to be shy to take up leadership roles in almost all walks of life but the 21st Century has seen the emergence of women leaders and voices in almost all sectors.
In the SADC...
