‘ZVAIREVA vakuru zvaitika,
Zvaireva Nehanda zvauyavo,
Nyika yedu yatorwa navaeni,
Zuva rayo rasvika!’
So we sang during the liberation struggle.
Zimbabwe attained independence on April 18 1980 after a harsh and bitter armed struggle.
From that day on, all eyes were, and are, on the heritage of Murenga, nhaka yatakasiirwa,...
HARMFUL cultural practices across the globe have contributed to violence, abuse and exploitation of children.
Millions of children, especially the
girl - child is subjected to practices such as child labour, child marriage and female genital mutilation, among others.
Adding to this, UNESCO reported that nine percent...
ZIMBABWE’s economy relies on the agriculture, forestry, energy, tourism and industry sectors.
In the Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC), Zimbabwe outlines opportunities for climate change mitigation through climate smart agriculture and sustainable agro-forest-based adaptation and management and pledges to achieve energy emissions per capita...
SOWE rekuDomboshava had been the pastor’s choice.
He had said that there was power in those mountains; power to unlock God’s favour.
The guide looked towards the glow of Harare in the far south and asked, “Do you know that the guerillas who bombed the Rhodesian...
THE Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), as a provider of impartial and timely information on markets, food security and nutrition, was instrumental in framing food and agriculture-related responses to the pandemic-induced global food crisis through targeted policy proposals as well as a set of...
SUNDAY, May 14, was flowers, chocolates, perfumes, champagne and the like — it was Mother’s Day!
This is what happened mainly in the urban areas, but what happened kumusha; I am not sure but indeed it is time to celebrate mothers, for motherhood is deeply...
MOST people in Africa have alienated themselves culturally due to neo-colonialism, Western religion and the influence of globalisation.
The culture of a people is what defines theem in the family of humanity.
Sadly, many now view African cultural practices and traditions as backward, adopting Western orientation and...
THE coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic and its numerous mutations were intertwined with the sustainability dimension of food security in complex ways.
For example, the expansion of industrial agriculture is associated with a rising prevalence of zoonosis diseases that transmit from animals to humans, of which COVID-19...
LAST week we wrote about the British fraudsters who spawned the Rudd Concession which they used as a basis for the armed invasion and occupation of the land between the Zambezi and the Limpopo, the land of Zimbabwe.
The armed invasion did not go unchallenged...
NGOs and CSOs operating within and outside the country’s borders have launched an onslaught on the ZANU PF leadership to save the struggling CCC from embarrassing defeat in the 2023 harmonised elections using a US$5 million kitty availed by Western countries a fortnight ago,...
MORE than any other dimension of food security, food access was arguably the most affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
The global economic recession triggered by lockdowns had a very negative impact on people’s ability to access food.
As the crisis dragged on, short-term coping strategies (savings,...
ON April 27 1898, the British murdered Mbuya Nehanda and Sekuru Kaguvi to secure their robbery of our land Zimbabwe.
The British robbed our land through armed invasion, lies, cheating, fraud and murder without compunction.
Today we are looking at fraud, cheating and lies as major...
