François Grignon
 
WHEN Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai visited Western countries last month, leaders greeted him with great encouragement and congratulations — but with very little money. When he returned to his country, he was welcomed with a US$950 million credit line from China.

Philip Mataranyika

IN my last article I discussed cremation as one of the two preferred human disposal methods.
This week I will look at burial, also called interment and inhumation. It is the act of placing human remains into the ground.
Burial is not necessarily a public health requirement,…

CAPE TOWN — The idea of using anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) not only to treat HIV infection, but also to prevent new infections, and eventually to eradicate the virus almost entirely, is being hotly debated at the 5th International Aids Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in Cape…

Nelson Chenga, Staff Reporter

SEVEN years after ratifying the United Nations International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), the majority of Zimbabwe’s indigenous farmers are still to know, let alone understand what the treaty entails.

Munyaradzi Mugowo, Staff Reporter

A GROWING economy in which government lives within its means and, at best saves, and where private households can accumulate assets from their incomes and where firms can expand production, create employment and pay a dividend and a bonus, is by any measure, a economy desired by…

Dumisani Ndlela, Staff Reporter

HIGH school students received their results for the examinations they wrote in November last year just six weeks ago. A ministerial directive to government schools demanded that the children who had failed had to be withdrawn from school. Our Staff Reporter Dumisani Ndlela provides an insight into…

Clemence Manyukwe, Senior Political Reporter

UNEMPLOYED and desperate to feed his family as Zimbabwe’s economy collapsed Albert Zhanje of Harare went to Marange diamond fields in Manicaland, in search of instant riches in March last year, but instead returned with dog bites.

Brian Mangwende, News Editor

ONE author once wrote: “Freedom of the Press is limited to those who own one.” But for the late Elias Rusike, owning the Press did not mean suppressing professional competence, which takes precedence over the political party one supports.

Nelson Chenga, Staff Reporter

THE room was packed. Almost all the 20 chairs were occupied. All eyes were glued on the television set at the end of the room. There was nothing really special that was being flighted on the 21-inch screen. Being played was the DVD of a local gospel…

Munyaradzi Mugowo, Staff Reporter

GOVERNMENT last week laid out its investment priorities for which it requires foreign partners, but said any investment concession, including bilateral investment treaties, would have to be predicated on two policies: the irreversibility of the land reform and indigenisation and empowerment.