Africa as a continent is reportedly said to have at least 70% of its population as youth. South Africa is similar, is having majority of its citizens as youth. The youth is not involved much in matters of natural sciences, such as agriculture, forestry, water, biodiversity etc, and that on its own does not bode [...]
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Climatic challenges of our times
Climate change is one of the challenges facing human kind in recent times. The explanation given to the causes of climate change is that carbon dioxide or carbon emissions as by product of industries and fossil fuel utilization, that end up breaking the ozone layer, thus exposing the earth to ultra violet rays, hence likely [...]
Land Reform
Land reform is a political tool that seeks to challenge and counterbalance land ownership on the basis of colonialism and apartheid based on the presupposition that being white in complexion means having the privilege to own everything under the sun. Basically, the victims of colonialism and apartheid with regards to land dispossession of the past,almost [...]
Is Agriculture a panacea to unemployment in S.A?
It is quite interesting how often we hear the the political office-bearers speak of agriculture as one of the key sectors to absorb some of the huge numbers of unemployed people in the country. Are their utterances prompted by facts or just wishful thinking? Is our Agricultural sector, vibrant and sound enough to be a [...]
Stock theft,social cancer from thuggery
Day in, day out the media houses report all sorts of news, and disheartening of all news, is the crime in our beloved country of which in most cases is coupled with ruthlessness thereof. In the same context, it is to be questioned, why some people tend to resort to crime or thuggery as the way [...]
Coffee, The Black Gold From Ethiopia
Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages around the world. It is one of the most traded agricultural produce or commodity in the world, second to the crude oil from mostly middle-east states .Originally, coffee is said to be from Ethiopia,and botanically is known as Coffea arabica. So the botanic or rather scientific name [...]
Wide-Spread Poverty in Africa
Africa is portrayed as poverty-stricken continent day in, day out, yet ordinary Africans are working hard under the African scorching sun to till the soil to plant food and commercial crops in deep rural remote parts of the continent. The media is likely to report about Africa’s plight of poverty. Some institutes based in upmarket, [...]
