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US Government sees the light…allows import of elephant hunting trophies from Zim

By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA   THE Western Animal Rights Groups’ Fundraising Industry has once again been exposed for what it is – focused on raising funds by telling the world, including the US Government that when you ban trophy hunting imports you save...

Who is a foreigner?…as Operation Dudula is Afrophobic

NO good comes from reducing another person to less than human as is being done by ‘Operation Dudula’ in South Africa. Social media is awash with news of Operation Dudula  trying to do away with some foreigners in South Africa. Operation Dudula leader Nhlanhla Lux Dhlamini,...

Money and the pursuit of wealth: Part 13… were medieval Jews money lenders?

MERCHANTS from ancient times, to the present, have carried products from places where they are plentiful and inexpensive to sell in areas where they are scarce and expensive.   Chinese maps of the State of Qin, dating to the 4th Century BC, show some of...

Patriotic Front formations in Zim: Part 10…aberration as Ndebeles agree to protect Rhodes’ grave

THE burial of homosexual Cecil Rhodes in the Matobo Hills was a watershed in the history of Zimbabwe.  The homosexual’s brother, Frank Rhodes, met the principal Matabele chiefs, by arrangement, three weeks after burial.  The indaba was at the burial site, now renamed ‘World’s View.’  It is...

Blind reading…the non-phonetic method

PUNDITS of the non-phonetic, Look-and-Say Method, insist that children can break into the world of the written word through guess work, so called word recognition, but without knowledge, understanding and use of the alphabet — this is not reading, it is blind reading. ‘Look Mother...

Child prostitution worrisome

TWO scantly dressed girls, Wendy (15) and  Natasha (13) (not their real names), pace up and down shop corridors checking out male shoppers exiting shops at Mubaira Growth Point in Mhondoro.  The two, who, given their ages and small statures, should be in doors playing...

Money and the pursuit of wealth: Part 12…capitalism under threat

THE entry of so many Germans into the Greek Empire resulted in an amalgamation of the two cultures.   As a result, by the 7th Century, a basic form of land management, known as the Manorial Age, evolved in many parts of Western Europe, involving...

CITES ‘violates’ own trade regulations

By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA THE UN international wildlife trade regulating agency, CITES, continues to go through a dark passage from which it will likely emerge as the destroyer, rather than the saviour of the world’s iconic wildlife, said a concerned international observer this...

Patriotic front formations in Zim: Part Nine…same modus operandi, same contestation 100 years later

THE history of Zimbabwe up to the April 7 1902 desecration of the sacred Matobo Hills through the entombment of the homosexual Cecil John Rhodes in the sacred rock begs to be studied as a laboratory of experience.  And, within that laboratory, every reaction to...

Of ‘victims’ and political agendas

By Special Matarirano ON Saturday March 12 2022, CCC interim spokesperson Advocate Fadzayi Mahere, the outspoken interim deputy chair Job Sikhala and foreign-sponsored activist Hopewell Chin’ono posted on their Twitter handles claiming that former Harare Mayor Herbert Gomba had been abducted.  It widely circulated on social...

Children don’t fail…

A MOTHER who holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Post Graduate Diploma in Education confessed: “The homework they give to children is impossible, sometimes it is so difficult I just ignore it. I do not believe the teachers are serious sometimes, and...

Money and the pursuit of wealth: Part 11 …a form of capitalism

ONE of the great innovations of the Hellenistic Age was the creation of State banks.  These initially appeared in a number of city-States; but the most noteworthy government banking corporations were organised by the Ptolemies in Egypt.   The main bank was in the capital, Alexandria,...

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