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Zim’s fate rests with Zimbabweans

By Benhilda Chademana AFTER critically reviewing our situation, including our current capabilities and possibilities, we have reached an unassailable philosophical and ideological conclusion that Nyika inovakwa nevene vayo/Ilizwe liyakwa ngabanikazi.  Simply translated, it means the responsibility to any mission, duty and burden of developing our Zimbabwe...

Early childhood education off track: Part Two‘…let’s not imprison children’

IN Part One we said early childhood education is not about ‘ABC’ and counting ‘1-100’ and beyond.  It is not about preparing for literacy.  It is not about reading and writing, nor about getting children to read and write before formal schooling, before Grade One.  If you...

Candidature for Sainthood: Part Two…when villains are rewarded and true prophets vilified

VICTIMS of British imperial tyranny, who have invoked the UN-sanctioned democratic right to information, have hung the late queen’s imperial linen ‘on-line’ to dry (nhumbi dzisati dzagovewa) and it turns out that the protestant candidate for ‘sainthood’ owned a scandalous 6,6 billion acres of...

Queen Elizabeth ll’s candidature for Sainthood: Part One…a contest of belief systems

BRITISH QUEEN ELIZABETH ll was laid to rest after 10 days of national mourning; 10 days of castles (Windsor, Balmoral, Buckingham), parades, motorcades, hearses, vintage cars, horse carriages, skirts and bag-pipes, views, flowers and sentries fainting on vigil. MuZimbabwe, ava makore zana nemakumi maviri nemana...

Supping with the devil suicidal

IT is totally amazing, mind boggling that, among us are those who are starry-eyed about the so-called Western democracy. It is unbelievable because Western belligerence is not in the past, in history, as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the US, to justify destroying the Japanese...

Early childhood education off track…let them be children

THERE are many things that are happening in early childhood education institutions, in ECD classes, that are not correct, that are not assistive to the development of our children. You find that in ECD classes, children are already quarantined in formal instruction which is what...

Lessons from Ukraine: Part One…Africa and the right side of history

RUSSIA’s special military operation to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine is now six months old and, six months is enough time for a crisis to have gravitated into conceivable patterns that translate to useful perspectives for those who wish to draw lessons from it. Beyond all...

Nation robbed of greatest resource…rise up heirs of Zimbabwe

“REVOLUTION has been about land everywhere in the world. It is about land because land is the thing on which you live, you build your house on it; you get your food from it. Life is sustained on the land and without it you...

Threat to legal rhino horn trade

By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA. UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRAND Professor James Larkin offers no apologies that his proposed experiment to inject live rhino horns with radioactive materials to discourage poaching may destroy the legal rhino horn trade, including rhino ranchers’ business.  Concerned conservationists say this experiment...

Money and the pursuit of wealth: Part 37…mercantilism, land grants and slave trade

THE first empires in the New World and the Pacific were formed by Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands.  Each brought a different perspective to the enterprise, but all wanted to unearth wealth and bring it home to Europe. All of them looked on the world...

Money and the pursuit of wealth: Part 36…Columbus’ looting journeys

BY the time the Portuguese were solidifying their grip on Indian Ocean commerce, Christopher Columbus had sailed for the Spanish monarchs, King Ferdinand and QueenIsabella, and discovered the Americas.   As the new century began, farsighted Europeans might have concluded that the focus of trade...

Who has jurisdiction over this land?

Our land is a great gracious gift from Musikavanhu. We are the custodians of this land, its owners. This is a land dedicated to a particular people; the Africans who live on the plateau between the Zambezi and the Limpopo, a sacred heritage set aside for...

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