By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA
WHEN I learnt that a US medical doctor, Jeffrey Barke, had published a third edition of his book on COVID-19 — this time adding a discussion on the just approved COVID-19 vaccines whose powers to heal or harm are...
...Zimbos do not have in-born immunity to the virus
By Dr Irene Mahamba
IT has killed at least two million people across the globe, it has mercilessly ravaged countries that are most equipped to fight it.
Countries such as Germany , France, the UK, the US, Brazil,...
A LOT of benefits come with the Climate Proofed Presidential Inputs Scheme (Pfumvudza).
Unfortunately, looting inputs for personal aggrandisement is now a problem sabotaging a noble scheme.
I visited Chigodora rural area in Mutare District and observed that the Pfumvudza programme is benefitting the deserving in...
SINCE 2003, Africa’s annual agricultural growth has averaged nearly four percent, well above the growth rates for the previous several decades.
While several African countries have made inroads in tackling the challenges of hunger, under-nourishment and extreme poverty, Africa remains a net food importer and...
By Elton P. Ziki
ON November 16 2020, the President, Cde E. D. Mnangagwa, launched the National Development Strategy (NDS1) at State House in Harare.
In his address, he said the NDS1 would be anchored on “...devolution and hard work, implementing robust, innovative and responsive strategies...
AS varied as we are, we are one.
When we were threatened by the white menace, we stood as one people, we fought together, we defeated the enemy together, as one people.
Our enemies work tirelessly for a divided Zimbabwe, searching for the slightest chink in...
By Martin Chihoka and Garai Donald Barahanga
PARAMOUNT Chief Mbari of the Shumba Gurundoro clan, the ruler of Harare and part of Mazowe before colonisation, is the man whom Harare, Mbare, Dzivarasekwa and a number of iconic geographical features in the region are named after.
In...
By Eunice Masunungure
PRESIDENT EMMERSON MNANGAGWA recently said the Government decided to honour Mbuya Nehanda for her heroic acts against colonialism which she paid for dearly when she was hanged by the colonial regime on April 27 1898.
Mbuya Nehanda’s statue is set to be erected...
By Charles T.M.J. Dube
IN The Machine Stops, a science fiction story by E. M. Forster, published by the Oxford and Cambridge Review in November 1909 and republished in his The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928, people have lost the capacity to live...
TO understand our agro-economic matrix in Zimbabwe today, especially as regards food shortages and price increases on basic food commodities, one has to understand the ramifications of Western-contrived economic policies on indigenous Zimbabwean’s food-security over the last few decades.
In the early 1990s, with the...
ZIMBABWE was the largest producer of cotton in Southern Africa a few years ago.
In 1980, Zimbabwe produced 147 420 tonnes of cotton and by 1985, was producing 179 000 tonnes, in the large scale commercial sector.
During the first decade of independence, cotton...
A CAR salesman along Simon Mazorodze Road in Harare whistles at potential buyers of scores of trucks neatly parked in the afternoon sun.
A two tonne truck is marked US$15 000 but it’s far from the ‘brand new’ the car dealer touts it to be...
