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Artificial ivory …will it lessen poaching?

By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA A US-based NGO has welcomed a report that Austrian scientists have developed a new artificial ivory product, Digory, that looks and feels like the real thing. The managing director of the US-based Ivory Education Institute, Godfrey Harris (pictured), thinks that when...

Ubuntu/hunhu philosophy “…it takes a whole village to raise a child”

UBUNTU/HUNHU is a traditional African philosophy that offers us an understanding of ourselves in relation to the world.  It is a unifying vision or worldview enshrined in various African proverbs, which all emphasise the interconnectedness of people. For instance, the Zulu maxim from South Africa: ‘Umuntu...

Diagnosing mythical rantings towards independence ….advancing a patriotic state of mind

By Charles Matekenya The level of toxicity displayed by some Zimbabweans in their support of white supremacism is deeply troubling.  There are individuals who, claiming to be educated and patriotic, naively assert that Zimbabwe’s Independence was handed to us on a silver platter.  It is a shame...

Zim vigorously pursuing SDGs target

By Kundai Marunya GOVERNMENT, through the Ministry of Public Service Labour and Social Welfare will for the first time spearhead the Voluntary National Review (VNR) process of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The ministry recently held a consultation workshop on the SDGs marking the third Voluntary National Review...

Vision 2030 journey towards real growth

By Sherphard Majengeta TO achieve Vision 2030 of an upper middle income economy our resolve as a nation, as a people must now, on every scale, register as unstoppable.   Speaking during the liberation struggle the late former President Robert Mugabe ruling out foreign assistance in...

Botswana communities’ hunting benefits inspire SA to enjoy the same

By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA UNTIL October 2023, Botswana hunting communities didn’t know that having elephants, lions, buffaloes, leopards and hyenas that buy them ambulances, build mortuaries, upmarket lodges, provide clean drinking water and send their children to school would inspire their South African...

Communities must lead the development agenda

By Fidelis Manyange I HAVE observed that many rural communities in the country are still entangled in the dependency syndrome web as far as infrastructural development of clinics, schools, roads and social amenities is concerned. It seems some communities sorely depend on Government or donors to...

Man and money: Part Eight …re-evaluating the worth of colonies

THE colonists responded to all legislations by accepting the bounties and other encouragements to manufacture and trade while attempting to circumvent those that would limit their search for profits. Some of the provisions which, on the surface, appeared to benefit England, actually worked to the...

Chimoio: Murder most foul

This story was first published in The Patriot on November 24 2022. YOU are standing beneath the leafy trees of Chishawasha Hills, a plane flies over you, a little too low and something changes in you, for a fleeting moment it all comes back, for a...

Man and money: Part Seven …rise of the colonial enterprise

SOME merchants ran factories, from which came metals, glass and candles, among many other products.  Others, in New England and New York, sponsored whaling expeditions and owned facilities that reduced the whale carcass to meat, bones and whale oil.   From the ranks of merchants came...

Favour in context: Part 19 …disorientation

SOWE rekuDomboshava had been the pastor’s choice. He had said that there was power in those mountains; power to unlock God’s favour. His sermon on God’s favour had been inspiring. He had said: “God’s favour will give you the job you don’t qualify to have.  “God’s favour will...

What’s Wrong With UN CITES?

By Emmanuel Koro,  in Johannesburg, SA A US-based cultural organisation has started asking some tough questions about what’s wrong with CITES – the UN designated international wildlife trade regulating agency.  Nothing at all, if judged by other UN agencies.  It functions efficiently, organises meetings effectively, responds to assignments...

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