THE resoluteness of teachers in schools during the struggle carried the day for both ZANU and ZAPU.
Taking care of comrades too young to be trained to fight was something very close to the hearts of both ZANU and ZAPU.
They needed to, and they wanted...
By Elizabeth Sitotombe
SINCE 2020, Zimbabwe and many countries all over the world have been battling the respiratory disease, COVID-19.
Zimbabwe has been through a first and a devasting Second Wave and many health experts have warned that the Third Wave is well on its way...
By Eunice Masunungure
IT is crucial that people understand that there are more positives surrounding Zimbabwean schools re-opening but we should not throw caution to the wind.
Of course, this is on the backdrop of the national vaccination programme.
Examination classes in Zimbabwe; Grade Seven, Form Four...
IT is generally accepted that the key integrative factor in the Shona political system was religion.
While the king was the ultimate religious authority in his kingdom, for he alone could communicate with the spirits of his ancestors, there were also other religious functionaries who...
THE COVID-19 virus mainly spreads between people through close contact and via respiratory droplets produced from coughs or sneezes.
February 2020
Epidemiological studies estimate that each infection results in 5,7 new ones when no preventive measures are taken.
On February 14 2020, the scourge was confirmed to...
WHEN, in 1964 ZANU, decided that the only way to liberate the country was to take up arms against the settler regime, they needed somebody who embodied the ideology of the land to lead the execution of the struggle.
The ZANU leadership, which had been...
By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA
AFRICA’S hunting culture, including that of Botswana, will never die, no matter how much Western animal rights groups try to influence African leaders to ban it.
Botswana bounces back on the international hunting map in April 2021, to quench the...
THE most significant aspect about opposition leader Nelson Chamisa’s so-called agenda 2021 address on Tuesday is that the MDC is not a factor in the country and that time has come for the Government of Zimbabwe to vigorously pursue the re-engagement drive with the...
By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA
“THE European Commission’s proposed ban on international trade in ivory will be a disaster for those African communities that rely on wildlife for food and job security,” according to a joint statement of the SA-headquartered African Community Conservationists (ACC)...
DUE to its remoteness and sparse population, Antarctica, in the south polar region, was the last continent in the world to confirm cases of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thirty-six cases of infected people were reported in December 2020; almost a year after the first cases of...
“THE death of our esteemed chief is a blow to the country and the traditional leadership institution.….we all are aware that he was an ex-detainee who fought for the emancipation of this country,” said Public Works and Local Government Minister, July Moyo at the...
IT was not easy for a Catholic nun, Sister Yullita Chirau, to establish herbal clinics in Chinhoyi, Harare and Chikwaka in Mashonaland East Province.
The venture began in 1994 when Sister Chirau was appointed diocesan health co-ordinator for Chinhoyi Diocese.
By then, Sister Chirau, who now...
