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Columnist / Baffour ankomah

Rhodesia was 'successful' because essentially it was a province of SA

This week, I am going to start by doing something that we journalists don't normally do. Often we think our duty is to criticise or point out wrongdoing but never to praise even when praise is due. But this week I want to express tons of g…

Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 09:26hrs | 2 | by Baffour Ankomah

Why did Ian Smith give in so easily and abruptly?

Let's look abroad before coming home. We all know Donald John Trump, the 45th and current President of the USA. If Trump were African, they would say Africans are daft to have elected him president. But Trump won the presidential election …

Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 13:36hrs | 4 | by Baffour Ankomah

Zimbabwe's well-intentioned law triggers violent agitation

The outside world must be wondering what is really going on in Zimbabwe with the Western media reporting "massive protests breaking out across the country". What is true is that groups of Zimbabweans, using the social media to incite revol…

Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Baffour Ankomah

West's bad Press against President

Shall we start by taking a cue from the great British journalist, Sir Peregrine Worsthorne (now 92), former editor of the Sunday Telegraph (1986-91).Confessing in an article in the Daily Mail in April 1988 he said: "Race is still a problem…

Published: 08 Jul 2016 at 06:42hrs | 6 | by Baffour Ankomah

State House is far, says Mnangagwa - Interview Part 3

Q: So you created what is called a "bogey" in this country?A: What is a bogey?Q: A kind of false flag, where people might think it was the villagers of Svosve who started it on their own, but in reality it was the party that set them up as…

Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 10:19hrs | | by Baffour Ankomah

State House is far, says Mnangagwa - Interview Part 2

Q: Why can't the many "solid" cadres you talk about be like Mugabe? Iron sharpens iron, isn't it?A: I don't know what that means, iron sharpens iron, that is English language. But I can say that most of us who have worked together in the l…

Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 10:10hrs | 5 | by Baffour Ankomah

State House is far, says Mnangagwa - Interview Part 1

"I have been with the president since 1963. We have been working together since then, first in Tanganyika and thereafter we were in prison together; he did 11 years and I did 10 years," says VP Mnangagwa, seen below leading President Mugab…

Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 10:03hrs | 1 | by Baffour Ankomah

The so-called men of God

If you cannot trust your pastor to pastor your wife for just a day, or if you allow me the pun for just a night, know that society is in deep, deep trouble. And that is what is sadly happening in the land that was once part of the mighty M…

Published: 21 Jun 2014 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Baffour Ankomah

Fidel Castro of Africa!

In the 1970s and 80s, Fidel Castro sent 350,000 Cuban soldiers, civilians and doctors to support the African liberation struggle, especially in Angola, Namibia, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, and Sao Tome & Principe. The Cuban …

Published: 24 Aug 2011 at 08:27hrs | 3 | by Baffour Ankomah

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