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Threats of terror: Authorities must step in

THE stunning exposure by MDC Alliance Bulawayo Province Women’s Assembly chairperson, Tendai Masotsha, of a plot by the party’s youths to bomb strategic Government buildings and other infrastructure was not only confirmation of the opposition party’s aggression but that its Western handlers are likely...

Of massacres and November 23

By Eunice Masunungure THE encounters during the liberation struggle were bloody and one such instance is the Chimoio massacre.  This dastardly act was orchestrated by the colonial regime in an operation called ‘Dingo’ on November 23 1977, lasting for three consecutice days, as reports reveal. About 43...

The predator’s song

I FAIL to write of the Chimoio attack adequately.  I have written about it, several times, but it increasingly becomes difficult. The more I dig into it, the more I can’t bear the monstrosity of the Rhodesian intent, the South Africans and their Western European...

Advocating end to GBV

SCARCITY of food in homes is one of the major causes of gender-based violence, said women who attended a workshop recently hosted by  Sprout Women Empowerment Trust (SWET) in Chitungwiza. Organised to commemorate 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence, the workshop opened a...

‘The Machine Stops…’

By Charles T.M.J. Dube THAT title by one of my favourite writers was a favourite read during my High School days, prescribed text though it was. In the book, the world is so technologically advanced that they have become too techno-dependent, even for the mundane tasks,...

The UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 2

AMID economic forecasts that Africa will be the next big emerging market, the AU launched the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) in 2004.    As it marked its 10th Anniversary in 2014, the AU marked the year as ‘The Year of Agriculture and Food...

Of trade agreements

BECAUSE of regional trade arrangements, trade with neighbouring countries was becoming increasingly important for Zimbabwe.  There was a marked difference between applied tariffs on agricultural imports from the region and those from outside the region.   For example, Zimbabwe’s applied tariffs for imports from the COMESA...

Failing opposition and the development agenda

THERE was little surprise that a few hours after President Emmerson Mnangagwa launched a new economic blueprint, the MDC Alliance chose to reignite the fake abductions narrative by ostensibly ‘clearing’ the name of one of its members whom they had accused of being a...

Unpacking the NDS1

By Eunice Masunungure THE National Development Strategy 2021-2025 (NDS1), which is succeeding the Transitional Stabilisation Programme running from October 2018 to the end of 2020,  is a second step of the Second Republic’s drive to attain Vision 2030 of achieving an upper middle-income economy in...

Catholics at it again…’homosexuality God-given condition!’

WE have long said that before the coming of the so-called missionaries from Europe or anywhere for that matter, we knew of God (Musikavanhu), the supreme force in our lives. We were, and still are. faithful to his laws and that was our covenant with...

COVID-19 far from over

By Elizabeth Sitotombe COVID-19 is far from over.  MANY countries across Europe are experiencing a spike in COVID-19 cases, with some now declaring thousands of new cases per day. COVID-19 is a respiratory condition caused by a coronavirus first discovered in Wuhan, China in 2019. The pandemic has...

When wildlife produces medical doctors

By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA IN Africa, some communities still don’t have a single person who has graduated from medical school. The reasons are many.  It could be a lack of funds for brilliant children to further their education.  In some very unfortunate situations, it can just...

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