CASES of child labour have been on the increase as children are finding themselves exploited in key economic sectors.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) defines child labour as work that is inappropriate because of a child’s age, the nature of the work, the number of...
IN a recent post-Cabinet briefing, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa announced that conditions had been set for schools’ second term calendar to start on May 3, ending on August 4.
Without doubt, parents and guardians are making last minute preparations.
However, investigations made...
By Emmanuel Koro in
Johannesburg, SA.
NAMIBIA’s wildlife conservation efforts were this year boosted following the US Government’s removal of the unnecessary hold on the African elephant trophy hunting imports.
The five-year ban on the African elephant trophy hunting imports into the US significantly reduced the opportunity...
‘ZIMBABWE iyoyi yanga yanditora moyo…’.
People must remember that there are sons and daughters of Zimbabwe, at least 200 000, who left for the liberation struggle to fight and free their land.
Some of these returned after the struggle before they could be trained, came back...
FAIRS were bound by rules and regulations.
At the time of the Paris Fair, held in honour of St Denis, local merchants had to close their shops and open stalls at the fair grounds while the privileged paid a fee to the king, who...
IF ‘Zimbabwe’ means ‘house of stone’, it gives critical symbolic significance to that material.
And, what this means is that patriotic Zimbabweans cannot afford the simple-minded privilege of perceiving the entombment of a British homosexual in ‘Zimbabwe stone’ as innocent aesthetic indulgence.
The act must be...
THE last part to this series defined the re-naming of Malindidzimu/Matopos as ‘World’s View’ and the burial of a British homosexual (Cecil John Rhodes) in that place as an act of seizure – an act translating to ultimate occupation.
The desecration brought with it more...
By Dr Irene Mahamba
OUR children know they are Zimbabwean, and deep down they each have a specific identity and theirs is Zimbabwean.
Psychologically, they are Zimbabwean, thus being Zimbabwean goes deeper than their mental functioning.
It goes down to the self.
Like all other children in the...
SOMEWHERE out there in Murehwa South lies a heroine called Cde Susan Tanga.
She was born on August 26 1958 and died on June 16 2015.
A beneficiary of the Land Reform Programme, she is fondly remembered as a brave war heroine who ensured that vanamukoma...
ONE of the last aviation acts by the late Captain Peter Chirimuuta, may his dear soul rest in eternal peace, was a fly-past.
A fly-past has been described as a ceremonial flight of aircraft past a person or a place, as part of a ceremony.
A...
BY the middle of the 13th Century, bankers who remained sedentary became common and had greater resources than the travelling merchants.
They dispatched networks of agents to fairs and other commercial meetings.
During this period, merchants, their agents and the bankers also became more versatile.
One such...
MORE than three million Zimbabwean girls have started their monthly menstruation cycle, thereby putting a huge demand on feminine products.
Sadly, statistics from a study by UNICEF indicate 76 percent of surveyed girls in rural and urban schools did not have access to basic information...
