By Ronnie Chirimuta Six Birdlife Zimbabwe (BLZ) Youth Club members and two senior BLZ members visited Lake Chivero on Saturday, 8th September. Initially the outing was planned as a bird-watching exercise, in the game park on the south side of the lake. But, remembering their commitment to conserving the environment and their role as custodians of this rich […]
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By Morag Flight September is a lovely time in your garden and with the hopefully warmer days, there will be an upsurge in the growth in your garden. All of your shrubs and perennials will benefit from an application of fertiliser and/or compost followed by a mulch and a good watering. Fruit trees will be
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by Tony Alegria Although we are circling the Sun at some 108 000 kilometres per hour (kph) giving us our years and rotating at 1 800 kph to give us our days, we have no sensation of speed. In fact, it feels like we are standing still and everything in the sky is moving from
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By Colin Weston Photo credits: Rick Fulton, Colin Weston and Jaraad Hassim We’ve all heard of Mount Pleasant swimming pool as being great to swim in, well run and well maintained. Built in 1967 it has imperial sizing, 33m long by 22.9m wide. However, its infrastructure has now aged and needs constant care and attention.
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By: Catriona Borman and Gus Cameron Photos by Catriona Borman During the month of July, Mashonaland Skydivers was fortunate enough to host the well known and respected South African SkyDiving Legend and Drop Zone Chief Instructor Graham Field. Graham runs and manages SkyDiversity, the Tandem SkyDiving and Student Training operation based at SkyDive Rustenburg/ Rustenburg SkyDiving
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COMEXPOSED By Kundai Chihambakwe “There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic novels are- at their best- an amazing blend of art literature and the theater of the mind.” ~ John Ridley. These are similar sentiments shared by COMEXPOSED
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The One Stop Shop for Nutrients By Tracy Mapfumo Have you ever imagined what a nutritional powerhouse would look like? Its face would be the Moringa Tree. Moringa (Moringa oleifera) is a multipurpose tree native to India. The tree is well known for its wide adaptability, ease of establishment and it is widely grown
This year, World Environment Day was held on June 5th 2018 with the theme of “Beat Plastic Pollution.” In Zimbabwe, to help raise awareness about the need protection of the environment through art, the “Death by Plastic” project was launched. This was the fifth installment in a series of initiatives; “AMBIENTE” Art and the Environment, which was launched in 2014 by His Excellency
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The Art of Mixology By Kundai Chihambakwe and Ashler Jaya On a pleasantly warm and sunny Saturday afternoon in winter, I popped down the road for my first Mixology Session…myself and 18 other participants needed to spruce up our mocktail and cocktail making skills! Set up in a lush green garden with the soothing sound of cascading water from
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By Ian Riddell, BirdLife Zimbabwe Our familiar summer visitors have winged their way back to the northern hemisphere, where they are already well into raising new young for the return trip, leaving us with our resident birds for the winter months. But even though the birding is quieter now there is still plenty to do. You can even get up
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