FARMERS have been urged to have soils tested to ensure they plant the correct seeds and apply right fertilisers to achieve maximum production.
Speaking during a field tour at Chance Farm in Doma, Mhangura, farm owner and Zimbabwe Farmers Union second vice-president Berean Mukwende said...
We are going to kill each other today: The Marikana Story
By Thanduxolo Jika et al
Published by Paarl Media Paarl
ISBN: 978-0-624-06345-2
JOURNALIST-CUM-AUTHOR Lucas Ledwaba on the scene at Marikana writes, “Police made it clear that that Thursday August 16 was D-Day; on that day they would...
By Dr Augustine Tirivangana
THE Importance of Being Earnest is often dubbed ‘a trivial comedy for serious people’.
It is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations.
Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the...
TRIBUTE must be paid to artistes while they live, superstar Oliver ‘Tuku’ Mtukudzi said last week thanking fellow artistes and organisers of the concert to celebrate his life in the music industry.
Speaking during a dinner in Harare, held in honour of his monumental works...
MY father was born and bred in Mbare.
He was born in a horrible era, the Rhodesian era.
My father Charles Dumba better known as Charlie Watts left home to join the liberation struggle in 1975.
The brutal oppression of Africans by Rhodesians inspired him to join...
ALTHOUGH the Middle East region is today populated by Arabs, the original inhabitants were black people.
In this series we will trace the movement of these black people from the Middle East to Asia, Africa, America and even Europe.
In the Bible we read of many...
By Chakamwe Chakamwe
WAS the First Chimurenga a real big deal?
Wasn’t it only a one-day wonder?
If it was anything big why have we not celebrated its anniversaries over the years the way we do the Second Chimurenga?
Were Rhodesian settlers given a real hard time in...
AFTER spending three weeks away; two weeks in Zimbabwe and one week in Namibia, I am back in the UK.
The 16-hour flight (two hours from Zimbabwe to South Africa, seven hours from Johannesburg to Doha and another seven hours from Doha to Manchester) leaves...
GOOD day dear readers. I trust that you are well and that the week has been a good one for you.
In last week’s article I started the first of a three part series of articles where I am analysing and responding to an advertisement...
GOOD day dear readers. I trust that you are well and that the week has been a good one for you.
In last week’s article I started the first of a three part series of articles where I am analysing and responding to an advertisement...
By Professor Ian Scoones
THE newspapers have been full of commentary on a looming food crisis in Zimbabwe.
This has followed from the World Food Programme’s press release that 2,2 million people will be in need of food aid in the coming months.
The Commercial Farmers Union...
THE Commercial Farmers Union has made a strange proposal to work with the ZANU (PF) Government which it has hitherto considered illegitimate, and whose president, Comrade Robert Mugabe, and service chiefs are still under sanctions invited by the same body.
While the proposal purports to...
