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Charles Dhewa A MAJORITY of African farmers tend to make decisions based on their experiences, expectations and fears, especially in an unstable economic environment and changing climate. At the beginning of each marketing season, a question in every farmer’s head is “Should I sell now or later?” Since the future is unpredictable from both an economic […]
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Unhappiness over the delay in setting a new date and perhaps new venue for the 18th Conference of the Parties to the UN’s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has boiled over into the open. The Switzerland-based IWMC-World Conservation Trust (IWMC) and US-based Ivory Education Institute (IEI) have […]
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Emmanuel Koro Being resource-rich but almost endlessly poor. This is the sad and most contradictory reality of the lives of many African rural communities living near the continent’s natural resource-rich national parks. But not so for Botswana’s Chobe Enclave rural community that is in the resource-rich wilderness area near the even more resource-rich Chobe National […]
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Lungelo Ndhlovu ZIMBABWE is attracting a huge interest in solar investments from across the world and from local players, with more than 100 000 solar power systems installed in homes across the country. According to government figures, off-grid solar power is no longer new for homeowners but despite decades of power shortages, solar energy companies […]
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Emmanuel Koro in Kasane, Botswana The Botswana Minister of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism, Honourable Onkokame Mokaila said if Africans do not use their wildlife they would remain beggars forever. Speaking during the Botswana Government convened Kasane Elephant Summit that is aimed at working towards a common southern African vision for the management of […]
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Roselyne Sachiti A woman holding a toolbox walks towards Esikwakweni water point located a few metres from Mathuthu Village, under Chief Sibalo area in Insiza South, Matabeleland South Province. From a distance, one can be forgiven for concluding that she is taking the toolbox either to her husband or to a male mechanic, but as she […]
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Pamenus Tuso Like what most expecting mothers do, when Senzeni Dube of Kezi in Matabeleland South became pregnant, she visited her local clinic seeking prenatal services. After monitoring Dube’s pregnancy during the routine prenatal visits, nurses at the health centre referred her to Plumtree District Hospital for delivery. “Nurses at Tshitshi clinic said I had […]
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Emmanuel Koro It is both a slave-master and neocolonial racist thinking that gives Western animal rights groups and the Western media the right to tell poverty-stricken Africans not to use their own wildlife to benefit conservation and development in Africa. Who do the animal rights groups and the Western media think they are to continue […]
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Gina Ziervogel, Correspondent Extreme weather events, such as Cyclone Idai that has recently devastated Beira, Mozambique, and Hurricane Harvey that hit Houston, USA, in 2017, are the types of climate extremes that cities increasingly have to prepare for. Cities, particularly those with extensive informal settlements in the developing world, are being hit hard by these new climatic realities. […]
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Nqobile Tshili, Features Correspondent ZIMBABWE has made serious strides in the fight against the HIV and Aids scourge which ravaged the continent at the beginning of the millennium. Unlike at the turn of the millennium when HIV and Aids was seen as a death sentence, the disease is now pacified with most people able to take […]
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Pamenus Tuso A local organisation has initiated a highly successful solar-powered horticulture irrigation scheme for the elderly and pensioners in Sizinda and Tshabalala high density suburbs in Bulawayo. The project, funded by the United States government through the Ambassador’s Special Self-Help Programme, will benefit more than 150 elderly people and orphans in the area according […]
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Obey Sibanda, Features Reporter A boom gate lowered at the entrance of a community owned mine in Silobela and a stern faced security guard armed with a knobkerrie, his dog strained against the leash in his hand, paints an intimidating picture. However, this fear-inspiring security arrangment could not do anything when bouncers from Bulawayo allegedly hired by […]
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Kudzai Chikiwa, Features Reporter It is now history how her childhood sweetheart used to be the cause of her heartbeat. It is now an expired file in her memories that when she tied the knot she blushed and vowed that only death would do them part. Barely two years into their marriage, her husband turned into […]
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Gibson Mhaka, Senior Features Reporter A disturbing scene of an old man lying on empty sacks on the floor of his shack, wheezing like a dying animal, greets one who visits Killarney Squatter camp on the outskirts of Bulawayo. In one corner there is an array of plastic utensils – buckets, and a basin for collecting and […]
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