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The paradigm of war and interests

The unbalanced informational diet from western media outlets makes it seem so ordinary, normal, and even natural that President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, is the real devil in all this.Western spies, pundits and scholars are frantically…

Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | 1 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena

State Capture: The imperfect metaphor

Language and its expressions and metaphors does not only deliver messages and meaning but it can also do a lot to hide the truth. In that way language can be used, sometimes innocently and at times in true bad faith, to conceal rather than…

Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:20hrs | 2 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena

On Decolonising Governmentality

It is a truly careless but also stubborn truism that if we had no nation-states in the world we would not have nationless and stateless people. Nations and states are the source of nationlessness and statelessness, which are a major human …

Published: 05 May 2019 at 09:57hrs | 2 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena

Critical consciousness and educatedness

Even some of the leading philosophers and theorists of education have made the mistake of thinking that being informed is the same thing as being educated.In actuality one may accumulate quantities of factual and fictitious information and…

Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:44hrs | 6 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena

Africa: Beyond the captive state

The phrase "state capture" comes very easily into our formal and informal communication these days.What is not easy, however, is true understanding of what the phrase fundamentally means. In South Africa, white monopoly capitalists that ca…

Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:36hrs | 2 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena

Patrick Lumumba: How to become a Colonial Constable

Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba does not only speak on African solutions for African problems, he raises hell and does not let any sleeping dogs lie. The Kenyan Pan-Africanist lawyer and judge does not take prisoners when it comes to calling a…

Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 09:54hrs | 7 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena

Human profits of decoloniality at large

It was about to be a planetary truism that our world has become an information and even knowledge society.In the present age of technological magic, the century of the social media and era of the glorified selfie it is a lot of work trying…

Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 12:01hrs | 16 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena

Man, the silliest animal

A soldier looks at buildings ravaged by war in SyriaIT is perhaps true that human beings in their true state of nature began as citizens of a small world in a huge planet; through intelligence and technologisation they have become propriet…

Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 17:27hrs | 1 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena

The born free and other dangerous myths

It comes easy in Africa to call the young men and women born after political independence as the "born free" generation. What the nature of their freedom is, what they are free from, and what privilege if any that freedom delivers to them …

Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 13:17hrs | 20 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena

The ANC and the crisis of democracy in Africa

Since its formation as an African party, not just a South African liberation movement in 1912, the African National Congress has had its slogan as "Amandla!" which is a determined cry for power. Two decades after the end of apartheid, thre…

Published: 07 Aug 2016 at 10:33hrs | 1 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena

Liberating the University in Africa

Presently there are emphatic currents of argument all calling for either the transformation, Africanisation or the decolonisation of the university in Africa. Long years of university education in Africa have proven to scholars that there …

Published: 08 May 2016 at 10:44hrs | 3 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena

Mzilikazi Khumalo: The king and the myths

Typical of the many African pre-colonial military and political leaders, the name and legacy of Mzilikazi Khumalo is enveloped in colonial and racist myths. European adventurous explorers and prospectors who encountered these early African…

Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 21:27hrs | 12 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena

The long trial of Joshua Nkomo

Even as he rests in peace, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo faces contesting judgments. In appreciation he is "Father Zimbabwe," the adorable "Umdala Wethu" who was once called "Chibwechitedza," the small slippery rock who eluded the Rhodesian killing…

Published: 14 Feb 2016 at 10:46hrs | 1 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena

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BCC launch blitz on traffic laws violator

Gray Hair: Nature’s Warning Signal or Cancer Shield?

'Power cut at Parly during SONA was deliberate'

MPs Push for Service Charge Relief for Elderly Amid Lack of National Policy

Zimbabwean agitator deported from Tanzania

Zimbabwean national arrested in Khayelitsha

Push for unity among Ndebele Royal claimants

Herentals to play 3 home games behind closed doors

Zimbabwe to give Zambia more water at Kariba

ZRP disciplines cops over viral video

Matobo rocked by corrupt and dubious land grab

Mnangagwa launches AI-powered smart silos in Mutare

No justification for bread price increases

Teen girl raped twice by cousin during babysitting sleepover

Teen remanded over blanket, shoe theft

Bulawayo hits Starlink capacity

Herdsman jailed for sleeping with schoolgirl

Mandaza was left visibly shaken as Biti, Sikhala, Ngarivhume fled

Telecel Zimbabwe enters voluntary corporate rescue

Zimbabwe warns foreign investors against labour law violations

Court dismisses Zinasu students' appeal

MPs Demand Relief for Elderly on Local Authority Charges Amid Lack of National Policy

Wrong decision to suspend ZETDC boss, a symptom of shallow thinking

MPs Push for Service Charge Relief for Elderly Amid Lack of National Policy

ZETDC MD fired after SONA power outage

Mliswa likens Tagwirei to Chamisa

Harare adopts a 'Pay first, drink later' strategy

Police foil launch of movement against Mnangagwa term extension

Parliament apologises to Mnangagwa

Mnangagwa the merchant of darkness