A Story of Mr Debe from rural Mutoko District, Zimbabwe In Nhire Village, which falls under Chief Chimoyo, Ward 15 of MutokoMwanawashe Debe stands out as a typical resilient and adaptive farmer. Heleads a household of eight individuals and is one of the most successfulagroecology farmers in the Mutoko district. Despite the devastating prevalenceof the 2023/24 El Niño-induced drought, which ...
A case of aquaponics skills by Silveira House Zimbabwe has largely been in the throes of food insecurity for close to a quarterof a century, since 2000. More attention and focus on food strategies andinterventions have largely targeted rural folk, deservedly so, but paid lip serviceto urban food vulnerabilities. Urban food systems have largely been thought offrom a consumption perspective ...
Elphas T Ndlovu S.J Inspired by the university’s motto, ever to love and serve, Arrupe Jesuit University continues to strive for the Magis, and this time through supporting a community school with a 2 class roomed block. On 4 March, the university’s community donated and presented a new classroom block to Tichakunda School, in Hatcliff, Harare. Tichakunda is a community ...
Covid-19’s effects are being felt world over. It has affected trade and big companies and one can wonder, how much effect it had on a household with 4 unemployed adults residing in Mbare, Harare. Petronella Pakamisa (55), is happy that even though COVID-19 hit hard, she has managed to continue her small business of cooking and selling fries and chicken, ...
By Tanaka Urayai St Peters Claver Catholic Church in Mbare along Rakajani Street can easily be mistaken for a commercial organization as each morning over fifty men and women in branded work-suits assemble religiously to receive their orders before being carried off by 15 branded trucks. At the same site, forty young people in branded t-shirts armed with clip-boards, questionnaires ...
By Kudakwashe Matambo A big celebration occurred at St Peter’s Kubatana Industrial Technical College, formerly a Vocational Training Center in the high density suburb of Highfields. 147 students were awarded certificates for successfully completing short courses in cosmetology, professional cookery and industrial clothing technology on 5thJuly 2019. With many small enterprises in Zimbabwe facing a complexity of challenges, capital and ...