Africa can turn its trash into electricity

Going green will mean tossing the trash, literally.

Cape Town, South Africa is using a waste-to-energy plant to reduce the garbage in its landfill sites while also helping to raise its use of green energy to a fifth of its electricity supply.

The broader context is that South Africa has an electricity crisis that has resulted in a series of brownouts, all to prevent the transmission grid from buckling.

Zesa gets tough on debtors

POWER utility ZESA, will in the next few weeks, embark on a massive debt collection exercise and will disable meters from defiant debtors nationwide.

Revival of community irrigation schemes to unlock agric potential

Vincent Gono, Features Editor MR Watson Magovere of Ward 8 in Vungu constituency looks at what is left of the heavily silted Mkoba Dam which is fed from Mkoba River in…

I have wasted a decade of my life

I am a 27-year-old lady and I have written to you because something is troubling me. I have been with my partner for nine years, including the three that we were separated before reuniting at the end of 2017. That is not the sad thing though.

Ultimate horse show jumping event is here

Mandla Moyo, Sports Reporter MATABELELAND Equestrian Federation have accepted 53 riders for the 65th edition of The Horse of the Year Show scheduled for 10 to 13 August at the Zimbabwe…

ZimParks scoops Green Era Award

ZIMBABWE Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks), represented by its director general Mr Fulton Upenyu Mangwanya, recently received the Green Era Award for Sustainability at the Green Economy Forum held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Berlin, Germany.

Famous ghosts that saved lives

Famous ghosts that saved lives Tendai Chara Though stories of the dead returning from the afterlife to involve themselves in the affairs of the living are as old as humanity,…

Kezi farmers urged to grow small grains

Mollet Ndebele, Sunday News Reporter FARMERS from areas such as Kezi in Matabeleland South, which receive low rainfall should specialise in growing small grains as they are  favourable to those areas.…

Evolution of Women bodybuilding

When one of the finest female bodybuilders from Zimbabwe — Davina Mountford — supposedly disappeared from the scene back in the late nineties, the fear was that the appeal of the sport would vanish with her.

Many felt that women bodybuilding was going to take ages to have another athlete who would equal or better the 1992 Ms Zimbabwe title winner.

Mission: Leaving no man behind

The definition of a real man was carved out at the inaugural Men’s Conference which was held last week at the Harare International Conference Centre at the instigation of the First Lady, Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa.

School boys, as well as men drawn from Government, the private sector, civic society and faith-based organisations, bared their souls on the sexual and reproductive health issues affecting them.

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