THE recent resurgence of the black market exchange rate which has culminated in a shocking upward spiral of prices of goods and services is part of a well-knit plan by some rogue elements within and outside the country to lay a fertile ground for...
LAST time I was talking about the need for our young to be innovative.
And this week I continue with the message, especially as the country’s leadership continues to call and provide space for our youths to shine.
As they innovate and shine, our young should...
THERE is every reason to have a re-look at the confidence recently expressed by Midlands traditional leaders in the countrywide development trajectory following the advent of the Second Republic.
What is gratifying is that this progress is holistic as no province is left behind.
Indeed, for...
WHILE the Government announced that it will complete distribution of inputs to smallholder farmers under the Presidential Inputs Scheme by end of this month, it is not surprising that we have some Zimbabweans in our midst still stuck in polarisation mode.
This grouping, which is...
By Dr Tafataona Mahoso
LAST week we noted that the first wave of ‘private’ donor funding of the media was meant to eclipse the work of UNESCO and to influence academic thinking about the media in the South.
The next wave of sponsorship will most likely...
Educating Rujeko
By Dr Thomas Muyombo
Published by Merck Foundation (2020)
ANNUALY on October 11, the world celebrates the International Day of the Girl Child.
Setting aside a day to celebrate the girl child does not mean girls are not appreciated, but the day is important to remind...
THE Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) emblem reads: ‘Fiat Panis’ (Let there be bread) – a universal statement and symbol of food security.
The First Session of FAO Conference was held in Chateau Frontenac, Quebec, Canada, from October 16 to November 1 1945.
It was presided...
WHAT was the relationship between missionaries, traders and administrators in the colonial era?
Colonialism has been described as ‘a phase in the evolution of Africa characterised by intensive geographical explorations, the slave trade, the scramble for Africa, the territorial ambitions and pretensions of the Western...
By Nthungo yaAfrika
WHEN Africans got politically independent, their first port of call was supposed to revisit their history, correct, rewrite it and reconnect as one people.
Sadly, the founding fathers did not fully realise the aspiration of oneness.
The CIA and various Western organisations ensured that...
SHINJA is a Remba term which literally means ‘clean slaughter’.
This slaughtering technique is performed by way of slitting on the neck of a clean animal with a sharp knife and thereafter allowing the blood to ooze out.
Shinja is equivalent to the Hebrew word shechita...
THEY could not take the land, so they decided, ‘we will kill all of you’.
“The Chimurenga war was the bloodiest, ‘the most violent, sustained and highly organised instance of resistance to colonial rule anywhere in Africa…A genuine people’s war in which individuals fought because...
By Eunice Masunungure
ZIMBABWE, like other African nations, finds herself among the lightest polluters of the atmosphere compared to heavily industrialised nations, yet she still suffers the most from climate change.
Records reveal that the five countries that produce the most carbon dioxide are China, the...
