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300 tractors to speed up rural roads rehab
Rural roads are set for a major facelift in line with Vision 2030 after President Mnangagwa secured 300 Belarus tractors to boost the capacity of the Rural Infrastructural Development Agency (RIDA) to...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 04:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zambia's 'Kenyan-style' cancellation of legal international hunting tender denounced as communities hope uninterrupted internat
Zambia's 'Kenyan-style' moment-of-madness-cancellation of legal international hunting tender was recently denounced ruled as illegal by the country's high court, creating local hunting communities' ho...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 20:51hrs | 21 | by Emmanuel Koro
Animal rights group-funded report denounced for lying that international hunting threatens Botswana elephants
Botswana, was recently targeted by an animal rights group-funded report, saying that international hunting is threatening the SADC country's wildlife, including its elephant population and impoverishi...Published: 29 May 2023 at 23:09hrs | | by Emmanuel Koro
SADC loses iconic conservationist as WhatsApp gives hunting communities 'permanent' voice in the media
The director of Zimbabwe CAMPFIRE Association, Mr Charles Jonga's death on 6 May 2023, signaled SADC's loss of an important wildlife conservation voice in the media.In an interview this week f...Published: 08 May 2023 at 15:51hrs | 1 | by Emmanuel Koro
Despotic leaders to blame for Africa's economic morass
ON May 25, Zimbabwe joins the rest of the African continent in marking the 59th anniversary of Africa Day.The day has tremendous significance for Africans and was set aside to commemorate the ...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Cuthbert Mavheko
NGOs plot to unsettle Zimbabwe exposed
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) under the auspices of Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC), which have become fretful over the proposed Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment, have hatched ...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
NGO links up rural entrepreneurs, markets
A LOCAL non-governmental organisation, Hand in Hand Zimbabwe, is using the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) to link emerging rural entrepreneurs with local and external markets in a bid to bui...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
G40 resorts to voodoo conspiracies
When the weekly Standard newspaper published a story on 2 May 2021 to the effect that a Zvimba villager, Tinos Manovengere, was not happy with the burial of former President Robert Mugabe, G40 members...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Africa the 'Sun Continent' and Investors understand that Solar Energy is a Low Risk Business
Africa is often considered and referred as the "Sun continent" or the continent where the Sun's influence is the greatest.According to the "World Sunshine Map", Africa receives many more hours of brig...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 15:24hrs | | by Enos Denhere
Good policies will boost the solar energy and minerals business in Africa
In 2009, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had an estimated $24 trillion in untapped mineral deposits, including the world's largest reserves of coltan and significant quantities of the world...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 16:02hrs | | by Enos Denhere
Lack of truthful dialogue is hurting Mthuli Ncube
At any pivotal societal inflection point, wise nations have sought out to have structures of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Cases of these are as broadly traceable to South America, North Afri...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 08:09hrs | | by Chris Chenga
Africa: It is the darkness now!
I have no difficulties with insults heaped upon our ancestors by the white world, both before and after colonisation. Much of it arose from overweening Victorian pride and racism anyway, a lot more fr...Published: 13 Aug 2016 at 08:47hrs | 36 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zimbabwe - a socio-political soap opera!
Every African or Zimbabwean citizen is quickly reminded of a vivid satire by George Orwell the Animal Farm, Things Fall Apart by the Great Chinua Achebe, In the Dust by one South African Author Malope...Published: 08 Jul 2016 at 06:15hrs | | by Mbizo Chirasha
Zambezi water: Solution to Bulawayo's ills
Bulawayo City is a pale shadow of its former self. This is mainly because of closure or relocation or contraction of many commercial, industrial companies and social welfare organisations.Once...Published: 08 Jun 2016 at 07:15hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Zanu-PF's 34th independence message
This year Zimbabwe celebrates 34 years of independence under the theme: Zimbabwe @34: Defending Our Sovereignty and Providing an Enabling Environment for Sustainable Economic Empowerment and Social T...Published: 17 Apr 2014 at 12:23hrs | | by Zanu-PF
Ministry of Health receives drugs for the treatment of bilharzia
THE Ministry of Health and Child Welfare has received drugs from the World Health Organisation (WHO) for the treatment of bilharzia, following increased cases of the disease and intestinal worms in th...Published: 14 Jul 2012 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Electoral democracy also addresses social and economic rights
There is widespread but erroneous belief that democracy goes only as far as elections and the enjoyment of civil and political rights. This view has seen other aspects outside of electoral democracy b...Published: 23 Nov 2011 at 04:58hrs | | by Rangu Nyamurundira
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