By Elizabeth Sitotombe
FOLLOWING a hive of disinformation on social media platforms pertaining COVID-19 vaccines, the bulk of Zimbabweans had initially rejected the idea of inoculation, citing concerns on its safety and efficacy.
However, over the past few weeks, Zimbabwe has seen an increase in the...
By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA.
NAMIBIANS have welcomed the return of uninterrupted hunting following a near-total absence of international hunting in 2020, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic travel bans.
As hunting returns to normal in Namibia, rural communities, such as Anabeb Conservancy, made history by...
FOR 27 years, the ghosts of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide that left more than 800 000 people dead have haunted France.
And drastic efforts have been made to ‘exonerate’ the French from being complicit in the genocidal operation.
Commission reports have been used as a salvo in...
THE embarrassing public spat between South Africa’s white-owned and controlled opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) former leaders Anthony James Leon and Mmusi Maimane over the former’s apt and sobering statement that the latter was ‘an experiment that went wrong’ is no different to MDC vice...
By Eunice Masunungure
WHILE tobacco sales bring in immediate cash for farmers and a little more for the processors, more value must still be hunted for, for the benefit of farmers and the country.
This year’s tobacco selling season kicked off on April 7 2021, with...
Tondorwira nyika,
Namadzimai
Namadzibaba
Tondorwira nyika (Chimurenga song from the struggle)
THERE once was, there still is, a great freedom fighter by the name Alexander Kanengoni, who left us on April 12 2016.
He fought the war of liberation and when he came back home, devoted himself to...
THE world might soon learn from television screens of the little-known evil system of Western celebration of African poverty driven by animal rights groups’ anti-wildlife use and anti-wildlife trade agenda.
The Western animal rights groups’ anti-wildlife trade agenda not only harms African wildlife but also...
FACTORS driving the emergence and expansion of contract farming are not new to Zimbabwe.
It began in the 1950s, usually linked to state-owned or state-controlled estates, with sales going through the state marketing boards.
Private-led contract farming arrangements began to take-off again following ‘dollarisation’ and the...
By Elizabeth Sitotombe
THE death of President John Pombe Joseph Magufuli comes as a blow to the African continent at large.
He was born in Chato, north-west Tanzania in 1959. He got a Bachelor of Science in Education degree in 1988 at the University of Dar...
THE foundations of Buckingham Palace are reeling following an explosive Oprah Winfrey interview featuring the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Harry and Meghan, which explicated and contextualised issues often swept under the carpet by the media, particularly concerning racism in the British Royal Family.
The...
By Elton Ziki
THE current thrust by the Second Republic to create an environment conducive to increased overall economic productivity will go a long way in attaining Vision 2030.
Climate Smart-agriculture and increased efficient productivity in agriculture, mining and the manufacturing or value addition chain is...
AS most of the Western world, albeit cowered by COVID-19, celebrated the new year, VOC-202012/01, a variant of SARS-CoV-2, first discovered in the UK, had been identified in 33 countries around the world on January 2, including Pakistan, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Norway, Italy,...
