By Emmanuel Koro in
Johannesburg, SA
THE days of hunting season-focused employment of a handful of locals and hand-outs of a few chunks of protein-boosting game meat are over.
This development approach is unfair to the African hunting communities that suffer from the socio-economic costs of co-existing...
RHODESIANS describe it as the ‘most mind-boggling special operations victory in history’.
They told the world, and still tell the world, that it was a most spectacular victory against 10 000 ZANLA cadres at Chimoio and 4 000 at Tembwe.
They boast killing 6 000 ZANLA...
By Dr Chipiwa Rufu
CLIMATE change is one of the greatest challenges of our time.
Understanding the climate change problem is a work in progress for the scientific community.
The risk it poses to global societies means that mitigation and adaptation efforts command the expertise of economists,...
THE gazetting of the Private Voluntary Organisations Amendment Bill last week is a stern statement of intent by Government that it will no longer tolerate the activities of NGOs that have been behaving like vigilante groups through their brazen endorsement of the opposition MDC...
THE MDC Alliance, which is currently rejoicing that Zimbabwe will not feature at the Democracy Summit in the US next month, has once again penned another lie.
The opposition allegedly claimed their vice-president Tendai Biti had been abducted on November 8 2021.
The US will host...
INITIALLY missionary education was religiously oriented, but soon included academic, industrial and teacher training. At first, parents were reluctant to allow their children to attend school, but later they were convinced of the benefit of education for boys.
The governing British South Africa Company (BSAC)...
THE late Cde Alexander Kanengoni should have been there in Bindura last week but he was not.
He died on April 12 2016.
It is sad he passed on before the new dispensation led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa held its ZANU PF 19th National People’s Conference...
THE most significant takeaway from Zimbabwe’s relentless pressure for the lifting of Western economic sanctions against the country was the unwitting admission by the US’ representative to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield that her country has an embargo against Harare.
There have been frantic efforts by...
By Gracious Mugovera and
Eunice Masunungure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s attendance of the the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (Conference of the Parties 26/COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, which came hot on the heels of the objective assessment by the UN Special Rapporteur on Negative Impact of Unilateral ...
IN southern Africa, the first Christian missionaries sent from the London Missionary Society arrived in Namaqualand (now Namibia), in 1805, headed by brothers Abraham and Christian Albrecht.
The London Missionary Society also sent missionary Robert Moffat who arrived in Africa in 1816; 24 years...
FROM the time of Saint Paul, the New Testament-era missionary outreach of the Christian Church expanded throughout the Roman Empire and beyond to Persia – that is, Church of the East — and to India where Saint Thomas Christians established themselves.
During the Middle Ages,...
By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA
BOTSWANA hunting communities in the wildlife-rich Chobe District have decided to further improve wildlife and habitat conservation as well as community development using the millions that they earned from international hunting this season.
Interviews with representatives of two hunting communities...
