By Emmanuel Koro in
Johannesburg, SA
AFTER months of passionate appeals to the British government to discontinue its plans to introduce the Trophy Hunting Imports Ban Bill, the protest voice of a Botswana chieftainess, who represents a wildlife-rich community, together with those of SADC hunting communities...
“There’s letters sealed; and my two schoolfellows,
Whom I will trust as I will adders fanged,
They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way
And marshal me to knavery. Let it work,
For ’tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petard; and ’t shall...
EARLY this month, the Zimbabwe Republic Police confirmed it was investigating the suspicious death of Sarah Rumhasa, an elderly woman in her 80s from Mberengwa.
The Police confirmed receiving reports that Rumhasa could have been poisoned.
It is alleged Rumhasa was forced to drink poison after...
THE burial of Cecil John Rhodes in our most sacred Matobo Hills on April 7 1902 was not a spur of the moment decision.
The deceased homosexual had personally made the decision and chosen the site in early 1896.
One day in early 1896, the homosexual...
WITH the rise of Macedon and Alexander the Great’s conquests ‘Classical’ Greece entered the Hellenistic period.
Greek became the lingua franca far beyond Greece itself, and Hellenistic culture interacted with the cultures of Persia, central Asia, India and Egypt.
Significant advances were made in the...
Arts Reporter
THE vibration of the traditional instruments hit with a seismic force that ran straight to the cerebral cortex positively impacting one’s consciousness, thought, emotion, reasoning, language and memory.
The sounds are intense; it could very well be a bira asking for the rains, some...
March 26 by-elections by the US is not necessary, needed nor required.
The US is no champion of democracy nor a paragon of virtue.
March 26 2022 is the day on which ZANU PF, Chamisa’s Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and Douglas Mwonzora’s MDC T, among...
THERE are many critical national security issues that arise from the US’ decision to extend its illegal economic sanctions on Zimbabwe last week, such as the role that some rogue elements within the opposition continue to play in the maintenance of the widely discredited...
By Elizabeth Sitotombe
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’s DAY is celebrated every year on March 8 to recognise the social, economic, cultural and political triumphs of women. The event celebrates women’s achievements and raises awareness about women’s equality while lobbying for accelerated gender parity.
According to the UN, this...
IT is Abrahamic superstition of the Christian religion that informed the decapitation of the Shona heroes of resistance (Charwe, Gumboreshumba, Mashonganyika, Chingaira, Chinengundu) and the archiving of their heads as trophies of conquest in the museums of Britain.
It was the white settler-calling card across...
EACH human being is female or male because the Creator distinguished him/her so.
There is no need to cost each female to be male.
There is no need to cost each male to regard the female as male.
The female is not unfinished business which is only...
FOURTEEN-year-old Ruramai (not real name) hastily ties her shoelaces, dusts up her black pair of shoes sent by her aunt who works in Harare and quickly rushes off to join her peers before they enter the gate of Wadzanai Secondary School in Shamva.
It isalmost...
