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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
IN the 1700s, the colonial economy in America was dominated by two types of workers: farmers and merchants.
This is to say it was agrarian, with the merchants’ major task being to market the crops grown by farmers and use the proceeds to make purchases...
THE announcement, by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, of the amendments to the ZANU PF Constitution designed to focus on economic development was well-timed.
The Party is alive to the threats to its survival and that of fellow liberation movements across the African continent.
Zimbabwe has been under...
“WE had political ideas that recognise that women are equal partners in transformation. We do not have to struggle against tradition because the political atmosphere recognises the equality of women. What is left for us is to take up the challenge,” said Ropa Rinopfuka,...
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...
IN 1672, the Royal African Company was organised to take over all of England’s African affairs, and the Dutch were displaced.
In 1713, the Spaniards recognised England’s supremacy in the slave trade by granting the Guinea Company an asiento to supply the Spanish colonies...
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...
