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Towards biodefence and strategy: Part Three …specific response plans a must

By Mupakamiso Makaya and Tapiwa Bere ON November 23 2019 UK Independent news agency journalist Adam Forrest reported a story captioned:“US military chiefs ordered to reveal if Pentagon used diseased insects as a biological weapon.” It was further reported in the story that: “US lawmakers…voted to demand...

Whites made the Bible unholy

By Nthungo YaAfrika IN their own words,  the white savages, the Tambous, in the preface of the American King James Bible, admitted that the Bible is not holy. I bought this Bible in Blantyre, Malawi, on December 22 1987 and I had never bothered to read...

Small grains way to go

WE, in the village, are busy in the fields preparing for the summer cropping season. However, with the effects of climate change taking their toll, especially in farming communities, many farmers are now frustrated, with some afraid to put seed in the ground. Without doubt, seasons...

‘Value add to fast track Vision 2030’

By Shephard Majengeta STATE-OF-THE-ART trucks, including ramshackle ones, groaning under the weight of agricultural products, have become a common sight. Also, on the increase are the pushcarts laden with fruits and vegetables of all types. The number of people living off the land in Zimbabwe can surpass...

Remember our musical legends

EDITOR – PLEASE allow me space in your esteemed newspaper to commemorate our departed music heroes and heroines.  Their music inspired us and will continue to inspire future generations. To date, some of us still regard them as magamba emimhanzi. The list may seem endless, but...

Towards biodefence and strategy: Part Two …policy to tackle biological threats

By Mupakamiso Makaya and Tapiwa Bere EVERY nation has friends and adversaries. A friend is a potential enemy and an enemy a potential friend; it has been established since time immortal. For Zimbabwe, it is has been a different story. We have our all-weather friends and those who swear...

Israeli-Palestinian conflict …a wake-up call for Nahasis

By Nthungo YaAfrika THERE will always be enmity between modern Israelis and Palestinians because of the Tambous’ (white savages’) distortion of the creation story and events in the book they call the Holy Bible.  In all fairness and truth, the Bible is not Holy as the...

‘How I survived Nyadzonia raid’

The story of Rodrick  Erengwi, alias Cde Tichafa Muhondo. MY name is Roderick Erengwi and this is my story. It is now decades since Nyadzonia, in Mozambique, was attacked by Rhodesians, but memories of that horrific attack still haunt me to date. In 1976, I made  the...

Let us be human

EDITOR — The behaviour of the crowd which thronged to witness a burning building along Cameroon Street last week left me wondering where we are going as far as ubuntu/hunhu is concerned, especially when dealing with accidents and life threatening incidents.  The onlookers even put their lives...

Youths key to achieving Vision 2030

By Shephard Majengeta I HAVE come to the realisation that people who are used to spoon-feeding lack the art and principles to a healthy life. And I am happy that Zimbabweans, our youths included, are not among those people. In this country and elsewhere in the world,...

Towards biodefence and strategy: Part One …the possibility of germ warfare

By Mupakamiso Makaya and Tapiwa Bere RESEARCH indicates that, despite the signing of the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC), clandestine biological weapons programmes have not stopped. The Second Republic is in the right strategic direction in its biodefence pursuit through the Bio Warfare Bill. Microorganisms in...

Geopolitics of ignorance: Part Two …politics of naming the other as ignorant

By Prof Artwel Nhemachena COLONIALISTS have historically dispossessed Africans of material resources and with the emergent mind control, memory editing and deleting technologies, it would be easy to similarly dispossess other people of their minds and memories. We are also being told that there are technoscientific...

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