By Professor Artwell Nhemachena
AFRICAN States that refuse or fail to liberalise rights to sexual orientation, including queer sexualities, are sanctioned by the US, the EU and even threatened by the UN, yet African States that fail to liberalise or to democratise ownership and control...
By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA.
THERE is a generation in which wildlife revenue brought clean drinking water to thirsty humans, built them a school, a clinic, a road that linked them to the rest of the world and created employment.
More than 30 years after...
By Rutendo Matinyarare
THE US State Department plans to impose visa restrictions upon individuals it claims (without trial) to be involved in undermining democracy in Zimbabwe.
They intend to include those who they allege manipulated Zimbabwean elections and intimidated voters.
They also want to target those they...
By Patrick Chinamasa
FOR the past three months, we have been helpless, powerless, useless witnesses to the unfolding genocide and mass atrocities: wholesale slaughter, indiscriminate, savage, criminal bombardment of civilian targets being committed by Israeli apartheid occupation forces in Gaza against the defenseless Palestinian civilian...
AS a nation, we need not look any further but here in Zimbabwe for solutions to revamp our industries and have a thriving manufacturing sector as well as re-position the country as the heartbeat of SADC.
Anywhere in the world, the human capital is the...
WE, in the village, value knowledge that is applicable to our day-to-day social and economic activities.
There should be a very close link between the school system and every other sector of our society.
The education sector has to be the central pillar of our country’s...
EDITOR — WHEN our critics write about Zimbabwe as having been the breadbasket of Southern Africa during the 1980s and early 1990s, they are obviously conflating the achievements scored in health and education sectors together with some achievements in agriculture whose benefits were predominantly...
By Prof Artwell Nhemachena
IT is time for African scholars of politics and international relations, government studies, political sociology and political anthropology to stop tinkering with theories that do not advance African interests.
Advancing the African condition requires theories premised on African priorities and interests beyond...
By Nthungo YaAfrika
SOME uninformed modern Africans do not know who the Nahasis are, but this is not surprising as their story is not found in the so-called ‘modern’ education system here in the motherland.
If the books by Cheik Anta Diop and G.M. James, among...
By Mupakamiso Makaya and Tapiwa Bere
IN the middle of biological threats, having a biological hazard-free Zimbabwe is possible.
But, only a robust bio-strategy is the answer to that microbiology menace of mass destruction.
One renowned philosopher once said, being at peace with people will not have...
WE, in the village, like everyone else value education, that is why we will sell our cattle, goats, grow peanuts to send our children to school.
As a nation we are tweaking and fixing our education system to totally dismantle the colonial legacy and significant...
EDITOR–AS Zimbabweans we have developed a culture of criticising and complaining, unfairly and without the full facts.
A lot which is untrue is being said about the recently announced National Budget. Remember we have to raise every dollar of the budget ourselves and nothing comes...