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Sunak and lessons from Britain …chickens coming home to roost

By Nthungo YaAfrika THE fiasco in the British economy and politics, a country which once said the sun never set in its empire, could be described as chickens coming home to roost. Never did they ever think in their wildest dreams that they would be in...

Every patriot must heed the call

By Tawanda Chenana IN the village, people closely followed proceedings from the 7th ZANU PF National People’s Congress, which ran under the theme, ‘Building a Prosperous Zimbabwe, Leaving No one and No Place Behind’. As we begin the serious business of the summer cropping season, the...

No to illegal sanctions!

EDITOR – HIS Excellency President Emmerson Mnangagwa has left no stone unturned in transforming Zimbabwe into a knowledge-driven and industrialising economy despite the negative effects of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the US and its allies about 20 years ago.  He has developed Zimbabwe’s vision...

Sanctions must go…in their totality

By Tawanda Chenana WE, in the village, are very much alive to the call for the removal of the illegal economic sanctions imposed on the country by the US, the UK and their allies. We might be from the village, but we know that the West...

Thank you SADC

EDITOR— THE call by SADC for the unconditional and immediate lifting of sanctions imposed on the country is fully appreciated. It is time every patriotic Zimbabwean adds his/her voice to the call to have the illegal economic sanctions removed in their totality. The claim by...

Born and bred under mental slavery

By Nthungo YaAfrika THE dysfunctionality of our race on this planet we call home is disturbing to say the least.  This is because we are blind and have refused to admit the glaring fact that we have been born, bred and are still under mental enslaving...

Agric next big business frontier

By Tawanda Chenana OCTOBER marks the beginning of the summer cropping or rather intensification of farming preparations and we, in the village, are almost done with land preparation. I cannot help but note the excitement, especially among rural farmers.  Gone are the days when we were at...

Kudos for Kuda 

EDITOR – NATURALLY I am a fan of the girl-child and let me say I have been following Kudakwashe ‘Take Money’ Chiwandire’s journey in boxing.  She is a gem in her own right and let me take this opportunity to congratulate her for successfully defending...

Moza was calling: Part One…crossing the boarder

The story of John Bukutu, aka Cde Roy Tichatonga I WAS born John Peter Bukutu, in Rusape, at St Killian. My village of origin is Chikomwe, Rugoyi, in Makoni District.  I joined the liberation struggle in 1976 when I was in secondary school at St Killian...

Food terrorism: Part Two…beware of food sabotage

By Mupakamiso Makaya FOOD makes man.  Deprived of food, any life form will suffer malnutrition, famine and even death. Relatedly, disproportion of food intake will lead to undesirable effects such as obesity and the risk of chronic diseases that are also life-threatening. Basically, bioterrorism and its subsets...

Yahweh or Hippocratic Oath?

By Nthungo YaAfrika THIS is what the Gospel of Phillip: Verse 22 says about ignorance: “Ignorance is the mother of all evil.  Evil ends in confusion and death.  Truth is like ignorance.  If it is hidden it rests within itself, but when revealed it is recognised, it is...

Veld fires threaten development

EDITOR — ‘POLICE identify 10 farm workers killed while battling a veld fire in Esigodini’, ‘Toddler dies in a veld fire’, ‘Veld fire destroys plantations’, ‘100 hectares of wheat destroyed by veld fire’ — these are some the sad headlines we have woken up...

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