By Patience Rusare
IVERMECTIN fever has gripped Zimbabwe as medical doctors are now using the anti-parasitic drug as an off-label treatment for the COVID-19 virus.
Many believe Ivermectin is a ‘miracle’ treatment for COVID-19, with the potential to save many lives.
The second wave of the pandemic,...
By Checheresi Mthambosi
WHILE our own local opposition had warmed up to former US President Donald Trump and looked up to his second term, they consoled themselves with a President Joe Biden win and are again now excited about it because as they say, ‘we...
By Dr Michelina Andreucci
ALTHOUGH in many ways, 21st Century farmers are not very different from the farmers who preceded them; they are hardworking, independent caretakers of land and animals at the mercy of the weather.
Successful farming in the 21st Century, however, requires knowledge not...
By Patience Rusare
AS the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc around the world, the only hope for ending the pandemic has been the vaccines being rolled out.
And Africa has not been left out.
In December last year, Guinea ordered 55 doses of the Russian Sputnik...
THE countdown has begun towards the ‘go-live’ date for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on January 1 2021, as the continent embarks on a new economic path.
The world’s largest free-trade zone comes amid trade tensions between China, the US and Europe, and...
THE construction of Mbuya Nehanda’s statue is a bold statement of who we are as Zimbabweans.
This country has suffered the misfortune of having to continuously contend with neo-colonialism that has seen our people not only resenting their history but their motherland as well.
All this...
By Patience Rusare recently in Mutare
AS the world continues to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, coronavirus cases are beginning to spike again in some African countries, and the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is warning that governments should step up...
US President-elect Joe Biden once made reference to a 1986 political speech in which he furiously condemned the apartheid regime in South Africa and criticised the US government for failing to call the Boer government to order in light of gross injustices perpetrated against...
THE American presidential elections have come and are about gone.
Most Zimbabweans who keep politics on their home screens were watching Donald Trump’s performance and hoping that he would stumble and fall from the presidency.
He did, but much as Zimbos believe in miracles, Trump’s fall...
By Tafataona Mahoso
FOR a variety of reasons, many Zimbabweans continue to misread US and other Western political developments in context.
Some deliberately misread developments because they have something to benefit by selling out the African viewpoint and adopting the propaganda view of the North Americans...
WHILE the major highlight of Chester Crocker’s involvement with Zimbabwe has been his much publicised ‘make the Zimbabwe economy scream’ statement, the reality is that the American politician has links that stretch as far back as Rhodesia, his brazen endorsement of apartheid South Africa...
