Few months into the rainy season is a period characterised by massive urban to rural peregrination. Urban folks, especially women throng communal mopane forests to harvest edible insects, particularly mopane worms.
Resilience Through Diversification, Climate Change Changes Rural Lifestyles
The post-harvesting season used to be a time to rest, after the grueling cropping season. It used to be normal to see children playing soccer, and grassroots football kept entertaining them till the beginning of the next planting season.
Plumtree twins live their Rumba dream
While it is uncommon for the younger generation to follow Rumba music, Alpha and Omega Sibanda have emerged in Plumtree raising the Rumba Music flag high.
Smallholder irrigation schemes, key in promoting food security
Earning the moniker ‘Watershed’ from its proximity to the Manjirenji-Mkwasine canal and the thriving small holder irrigation schemes, Ruware has become one ‘white beacon’ in Chiredzi North Constituency. Multitudes throng the community from surrounding areas such as Matedzi and Tapudzai, especially in the post harvesting season to buy or exchange their labour for maize and vegetables.
Pressure groups, individuals in digital environmental advocacy
Five of the world’s plant species are at risk of extinction as a result of the destruction of the natural world.
Chishakwe, a perfect spot for adventure
Green is a restful and quiet colour, it symbolises nature, and is also associated with immortality. Some see green as a natural healer, a symbol of good health and wealth.
Blue Hills Camp, Bulawayo’s ‘Eastern highlands’
Located on the 30km peg along Bulawayo-Beitbridge road, Blue Hills Camp is a perfect destination for wanderers. It’s not jiggery-pokery for one to laud such a picturesque spot planted on a hill right inside Esigodini Farm.
Wordsmith Mthulisi Ndlovu goes global
A Bulawayo based author, Mthulisi Ndlovu literally known as KhuluGatsheni has been nominated for this year’s Global African Authors Awards.
Poetry: Freedom In Chains
Is being free really freedom?
Poetry: This Is Why I Chose Silence
They don’t answer the questions