By Elton Ziki
A SURVEY by Ndebele et al (2007) in Matabeleland revealed that cattle are an investment and a status symbol.
Cattle, thus, generate income among communal households through sales of the animals and their products.
Improvement in cattle production and innovative value addition strategies of...
By Elizabeth Sitotombe
‘WHAT happens in the dark shows results in the day,’ so goes the saying.
Imagine waking up as Gora after many years of identifying as Mhofu.
The trauma, the feeling of betrayal and distrust is unmatched.
Zimbabwe has had an opportunity to be part of...
ZIMBABWE has always taken heed of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Number Four, more so as it seeks to achieve an upper-middle income economy by 2030.
SDG Number Four promotes ‘...an inclusive and equitable quality education and promotes lifelong learning opportunities for all’.
Government...
By Eunice Masunungure
IF attention is paid to the wells of traditional wisdom, the indigenous knowledge systems in African men and women, livelihoods would improve a great deal.
A Harare man, Chiwoniso Zvakaramba, on talking about his knowledge of herbs and how they are capable of...
I WILL never forget May 26 2021.
Fear struck me right down to my core.
I had received my COVID-19 tests results.
And they were positive.
I had COVID-19.
I was terrified.
Was I going to die, many people I know had succumbed to the virus.
I thought my life was...
WHEN you want to defeat a people, a principal strategy is to destroy their values, their norms, their beliefs, their whole way of life.
Our enemies, those who covet our land and all its riches, have always used this method. They began this whole process...
By Elizabeth Sitotombe
THE world’s messy battle against COVID-19 continues to rage on.
Many are currently nursing blows wrought by the Delta variant.
No sooner does life appear to be going back to some kind of normal than other deadly variants of the virus emerge.
The continued mutation...
AS Zimbabwe’s unprecedented economic transformation continues to take the world by storm, the country’s enemies are once again upping the tempo through their latest efforts to scuttle that progress, with the US once again at the forefront of those plans to destabilise Harare.
The country...
By Special Matarirano
THERE is a story of a king who ruled a very big kingdom and had a very beautiful daughter.
A lot of men had attempted to coax for her hand in marriage but none were successful.
One day the king assembled all the men...
IT is always correct to know who you are because that way you maintain normalcy and sanguineness in your life.
We are a people who have to be at peace with God and ourselves.
In Zimbabwe, we are not permitted to let each vile thing prosper,...
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 (Church of the East) and to India where Saint Thomas Christians established themselves.
During the Middle Ages (or Medieval period) which...
By Elton Ziki
IN a bold move to decisively grow the national livestock herd, President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently launched the ZIMPLATS and Palmline US$15 million Japanese Wangyu Breed Cattle Ranching Project in Mhondoro-Ngezi.
This private player investment will contribute to the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS...
