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Where wildlife produces medical doctors
In Africa, some communities still don't have a single person who has graduated as a medical doctor. The reasons are many. It could be a lack of funds for brilliant children to further their ed...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 07:32hrs | 1897 | by Emmanuel Koro
Why SADC countries still 'oppose' rhino horn trade
SADC countries have individually decided not to get involved in the non-commercial international trade in rhino horn. This questionable decision has happened despite approval for such trade by the UN ...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 07:38hrs | 535 | by Emmanuel Koro
Zimbabwe is our only home
Gogo Chapo moved up and down the whole night checking on her sons Enock and John who were recuperating at their respective homes after a thorough beating by the settler forces. The cat had com...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:18hrs | 1293 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Zimbabwe plans to send dead elephants' brain tissue to US for toxin tests
Zimbabwe plans to send brain tissue samples from dead elephants to the United States to test for toxic micro-organisms blamed for hundreds of elephant deaths in neighbouring Botswana, the parks author...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 18:57hrs | 552 | by Reuters
More elephant deaths recorded in Victoria Falls
TWO more elephants were found dead in Victoria Falls last Friday, bringing to 27 the number of jumbo deaths in Zimbabwe in the last two months.The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Author...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:14hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zimbabwe elephants, giraffes join 'Jerusalema' Challenge
ANIMALS are the latest to join in on the human fun that is the Jerusalema dance challenge.In a viral video, elephants and giraffes from the Wild Is Life Trust's Zimbabwe Elephant Nursery (ZEN)...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:27hrs | 1591 | by Staff reporter
Leopard terrorises Victoria Falls residents
A FEMALE leopard, roaming with a cub, has terrorised residents of Victoria Falls' low-density areas.The agile cat has reportedly consumed five dogs in the area and also wiped out a whole pen o...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:07hrs | 1474 | by Staff reporter
Chinese Hwange blitz a minister's directive
THE shock decision by the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) to grant two Chinese mining firms the greenlight to drill and explore for coal in the giant Hwange National Park w...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | 2793 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lacking visionary leaders
Allow me to unpack some of the few things which are derailing the country from progressing and if they are fixed, we can all enjoy the treasures in our country.The recent developments witnesse...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 12:34hrs | 953 | by Leonard Koni
A look inside Zimbabwe's most glamorous resorts
Zimbabwe is fortunate to have a stunning natural landscape, complete with beautiful flora and fauna. It's no surprise that our ...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 19:01hrs | 2313 | by Staff writer
11 elephants found dead in Hwange
The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) is conducting investigations to establish the cause of death of eleven elephants in Pandamasue Forest located between Hwange and Victori...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 1178 | by Staff reporter
Forex auction system has failed, claims Mashakada
THE forex auction system introduced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe in June this year to contain the black market and stabilise the economy has been a major failure and will not achieve targeted resul...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 19:37hrs | 1516 | by Staff reporter
Forex auction system has failed: Mashakada
THE forex auction system introduced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe in June this year to contain the black market and stabilise the economy has been a major failure and will not achieve targeted resul...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:34hrs | 2684 | by Staff reporter
Communities plunged into vulnerability
The prevailing harsh economic conditions coupled with the devastating impacts of climate change have plunged communities into the doldrums of vulnerability. Habakkuk Trust in its latest ...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 07:46hrs | 310 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe cattle, donkeys border jumps into Botswana, shot dead
OVER 180 cattle and 109 donkeys from Mashaba in Gwanda and Beula in Kezi were shot in Botswana in the past week after they strayed into the neighbouring country. In 2006, Botswana introduced a...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:30hrs | 164 | by Staff reporter
Crossing crocodile-infested Limpopo for survival
A bakkie waits on the Zimbabwean side of the Limpopo River.A number of people sit waiting for their relatives to return from shopping forays into South Africa, especially in the border town of...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:45hrs | 13369 | by Staff reporter
Interview with ZPRA Instructor Thoriso Moyo
This week on the Big Interview, we have Toriso Moyo, a freedom fighter and military instructor with the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), a Mgagao attack survivor, and one of the fir...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:20hrs | 2729 | by The Big Interview
Covid-19 plunges Zimbabwe into wildlife management crisis - What can be done before vaccine?
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an almost three-month ban on international and domestic travel to Zimbabwe's prime tourist resorts. This has plunged the country into a wildlife management crisis char...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:34hrs | 1798 | by Emmanuel Koro
Baboons targets Kariba patients
KARIBA - Some residents in the resort town of Kariba have raised red flag to Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management to tame troops of baboons attacking patients at the district hospital....Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:17hrs | 1466 | by Naume Muza
Victoria Falls city fathers, residents face off
A Vic Falls forest along Kazungula Border Post Road which has been targeted by residents for indiscriminate cutting down of treesVICTORIA Falls authorities and residents have faced off over th...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 08:03hrs | 928 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe won't pull out of CITES
ZIMBABWE will not pull out of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in order to sell its stockpile of ivory tasks worth US$600 million, the Minister of Environment, Clima...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:07hrs | 546 | by Staff reporter
Fire is a good servant but a bad master
Season for veld fires, unpleasant and often tragic. Saw this caption in a bar of all the places, "They do not burn your home, do not burn theirs". Truth hurts, animals do not burn down our res...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 21:22hrs | 786 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
The Dalish Nguwaya saga, Justice or scape goat
For the past few months Zimbabwe was gripped with news of corruption involving The first family in particular Collins Mnangagwa and his associate DALISH Nguwaya the local representative of a medical c...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 13:47hrs | 1044 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Farmers start preparing for dry season
Farmers in Bulilima are seized with gathering hay and maize stalks to avert an impending drought crisis attributed to the effects of climate change.Over a thousand cattle and donkeys in the di...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 08:19hrs | 1323 | by Stephen Jakes
Kariba women under siege from baboons
Baboons are causing havoc to Kariba residents where women are major causalities in the resort town here.This has been part of challenges faced during Covid 19 lockdown that kicked off late Mar...Published: 24 May 2020 at 21:56hrs | 1537 | by Naume Muza
Mashonaland Central malaria cases blamed on artisanal mining, proximity to Mozambique
THE record increase in malaria cases in Mashonaland Central has been attributed largely to widespread socio-economic activities such as mining and farming that predisposed populations to malaria....Published: 06 May 2020 at 07:58hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean elephants cause havoc in SA village
Government's plans to secure the border with Zimbabwe as part of the Covid-19 regulations have not stopped marauding elephants from destroying crops in a South African village, writes Chester Makana...Published: 04 May 2020 at 10:57hrs | 2928 | by Chester Makana
Elephants trample farmer to death
A 68-YEAR-OLD man from Laughing Hills Farm in Hurungwe was on Monday trampled to death by a herd of elephants while he was tending to his field.Kenneth Machengo's body was discovered late in t...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1116 | by Staff reporter
Hunger stalks Matebeleland region
HUNGER has stalked hundreds of families in the Matebeleland region who relied mostly on remittances from migrant workers in South Africa and Botswana after borders were closed due to the coronavirus o...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 22:29hrs | 1464 | by Staff reporter
Villagers feast on stray elephant
VILLAGERS in Chikomba district, Mashonaland East province on Tuesday broke COVID-19 lockdown rules after they congregated over the carcass of a young bull elephant that was gunned down by rangers in t...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:26hrs | 798 | by Staff reporter
Gweru seeks permission to sell stands
GWERU City Council has applied to Government for permission to commence selling residential and commercial stands. The Ministry of Local Government and Public Works temporarily banned the loca...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 07:55hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter
Birth control pills for Zimbabwe elephants
PARLIAMENT is proposing birth control to curb the rising population of elephants, which is not only coming at a huge cost to the country's environment, but exacerbating cases of human-wildlife conflic...Published: 14 Apr 2020 at 07:46hrs | 762 | by Staff reporter
Churches, colleges to be turned into isolation centres
CHURCHES have availed their facilities to be turned into isolation centres during the Government's fight against the spread of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.This comes amid revelations t...Published: 12 Apr 2020 at 08:43hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge residents want COVID-19 centre out of town
Beitbridge residents said they were sceptical about the move made by the National Social Security Authority to allow the use of its non-operational US$39 million Beitbridge hotel as a COVID-19 quarant...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:04hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
Woman, baby die in crocodile attack
An 18-year old woman and her 11-month-old baby from Onapathali in Mhangura died last Wednesday after being attacked by a crocodile while fetching water. Mrs Esnath Mavhangira was fetching wate...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 07:55hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter
Farmer trampled to death by an elephant
A 50-YEAR-OLD Mbire farmer was trampled by an elephant and died on the spot while guarding his sorghum from wild animals last week.Barnabas Mwinga of Mufanechiya village ,Chief Matsiwo in Mbir...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 11:16hrs | 1723 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Amacimbi harvester killed by elephant
A woman (58) from Lukange community in Beitbridge East was trampled to death by an elephant while two other villagers watched helplessly on Saturday morning. Elisa Chivalaula died while harves...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:14hrs | 770 | by Staff reporter
Barry Daka buried
HIGHLANDERS legend Barry Daka, who died at his Barbourfields home last Thursday morning after a short illness, was buried at Lady Stanley Cemetery in Bulawayo yesterday. In an emotionally char...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 06:22hrs | 1684 | by Staff reporter
4 elephants poisoned, tusks removed
FOUR elephants were found dead, three of them without tusks in Woodlands Farm resettlement area on Monday. The resettlement area is on the edge of Hwange National Park and the jumbos were poisoned wit...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 06:20hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
We all fought the war of liberation comrades
DearIt was no one's war. No. It was everyone's war since every living human being then contributed one way or the other but surprisingly we now hear some misguided people claiming that they ar...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 10:19hrs | 1262 | by Munya Shumba
Lions kill railway line tracker
A 43-YEAR-OLD railway line tracker at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) was killed by a lion in Dete, authorities have confirmed. Matabeleland North police spokesperson Chief Inspector S...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 05:28hrs | 1663 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa talks collapse
THERE is an old African saying that "when elephants fight it is the grass that suffers" and it rings true for penury-weary Zimbabweans who have been counting on talks between President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 13:18hrs | 4283 | by Staff reporter
30 0000 Zimbabwe cattle border jumps into Botswana
MORE than 30 000 cattle from areas bordering Botswana crossed into the neighbouring country in the last seven months, renewing fears Gaborone officials will be forced to invoke a law that compels them...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 08:22hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blames sanctions for failure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mangagwa yesterday attributed his administration's failure to contain the raging economic crisis to sanctions and lack of global financing.Officially opening the Sixth Afric...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 06:00hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blames sanctions for failure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mangagwa yesterday attributed his administration's failure to contain the raging economic crisis to sanctions and lack of global financing.Officially opening the Sixth Afric...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 06:16hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
We have a full-blown crisis
Phew!What a frenzied week it was as those brats, who are used to hogging TV remote controls or causing unending trouble during holidays, were finally banished to school, where they rightfully ...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:33hrs | 261 | by Bishop Lazarus
Why animal poaching needs to stop & how you can help stop it
Animal poaching continues to be a major issue in the conservation of many animal species. Despite efforts to stop poaching, it continues to persist. Many people do not realize the extent of the proble...Published: 16 Jan 2020 at 14:09hrs | 2003 | by Staff Writer
Why not Saviour Kasukuwere?
As 2020 begins it drags with it a nagging pertinent question which 2019 posed to our national politics; one we must reflect upon with all the hopes and aspirations a new year inspires. Why not Saviour...Published: 07 Jan 2020 at 18:17hrs | 8997 | by Ntokozo Msipha
Hollywood stars visit Victoria Falls for Christmas
HOLLYWOOD stars and couple Mr Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are in Victoria Falls for a festive season holiday as the resort town continues to attract world personalities.Local tour...Published: 27 Dec 2019 at 21:23hrs | 5739 | by Staff Reporter
Decoloniality: Did somebody say China?
The name "China" invokes mixed reactions from a mixed bag of many different people from varied interests and locations in the world. For others China represents the alternative to Euro-America...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:47hrs | 247 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
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