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Visionary Leadership: The Key to Unlocking Africa's Potential

Africa stands at a crossroads, rich in natural resources yet struggling to translate this wealth into sustainable development and prosperity for its people. The continent's progress is hindered by a myriad of challenges, including politica…

Published: 15 Aug 2025 at 15:37hrs | | by Tatenda Hwari

Democratic Journey for Africa: Elections a Pathway to Progress

Across Africa, elections serve as a cornerstone of democracy, offering citizens an opportunity to shape the future of their nations. From the vibrant streets of Accra to the avenues of Harare, the electoral process reflects people's aspira…

Published: 04 Mar 2025 at 15:05hrs | | by Sibanda Nomagugu and Masukume Nompumelelo

The truth about US aid, digital imperialism and the Great Continent of Africa's future

On the fast lane to 2030 by Maxwell Haitengeswinyika Teedzai The US feeds on creation of chaos and chicanery in third world countries and they use illegal and corrupt tactics such as sanctions to pressurize their own rhetoric which is lips…

Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 20:34hrs | | by Maxwell Haitengeswinyika Teedzai

Africa declares Mpox public health emergency amid surge in cases and deaths

Africa's top health authority, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), has declared an outbreak of mpox a public health emergency ac

Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter

Milan spoke against the policy of neo-colonialism in Africa

Two events were held in Milan in support of the peoples of Africa: inscriptions demanding the end of the policy of neo-colonialism on the continent were broadca

Published: 18 May 2024 at 18:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter

The imbecility of Macron - 'Africa can't manage the world!'

Imbecility of MacronFollowing a wave of anti-French feelings across Francophone Africa, a former Economic Minister for France, one Thierry Breton, took to twitter and posted the following: "It's the imbecility of Emmanuel Macron that opene…

Published: 18 May 2024 at 09:43hrs | | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday

Africa's biggest challenge is getting an honest workforce

I used to criticise African companies like Dangote Group who hire so many Indians while there are many unemployed Africans, but now I understand their painful decision.The biggest challenge in our manufacturing businesses is not power or i…

Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 20:14hrs | | by Karim KONE

Decoloniality vs mental re-orientation

PART of the duty and responsibility of today's academics and intellectuals is to find answers to Africa's development challenges.This is because the post-independent African State has done nothing, but inherit the colonial political-admini…

Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 04:52hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo

Activists condemned EU for the oppression of African people

A protest was held in the Swiss capital, Bern, against the oppression of African peoples by the United States of America and European Union.&nbsp;The action too

Published: 10 Dec 2023 at 20:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter

Mnangagwa knows what to do

THE CEO Africa Round Table meeting, which was held in Victoria Falls recently week, raised some interesting questions and brought out some perspectives for our political leadership to consider.The one that stood out was the address by Alph…

Published: 03 Nov 2023 at 14:57hrs | | by Alfonce Mbizwo

Change is inevitable. Is Africa ready?

CHANGE is one of the few constant factors in our lives, perhaps since the beginning of time. Unless driven by the people, the fear of change is another constant. This is because humans, by nature, are creatures of routine because that give…

Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 05:29hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo

Africa: Embattling a Continent

When the IMF goes to warSo the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff has decided to grant Ukraine some whooping USD15,6 billion?Ukraine is at war with Russia.A war funded and supplied by America and all NATO countries. As the IMF staffer…

Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 12:59hrs | | by Jamwanda2 on Saturday

NFTs in Africa: Potential Benefits and Risks for the Art Market and Beyond

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have gained significant attention in recent years as a new way of buying and selling digital and physical assets. From art to collectibles to real estate, NFTs have the potential to revolutionize the way we think…

Published: 30 Dec 2022 at 07:47hrs | | by Taedzwa Chikono

The burdened party politician

As the 2023 elections draw closer, jockeying and jostling for political party candidature will soon become the order of the day. The process itself is far from clean.It involves pleasing the entire hierarchy of all levers of party politica…

Published: 23 May 2022 at 05:40hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo

Despotic leaders to blame for Africa's economic morass

ON May 25, Zimbabwe joins the rest of the African continent in marking the 59th anniversary of Africa Day.The day has tremendous significance for Africans and was set aside to commemorate the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (…

Published: 23 May 2022 at 05:40hrs | | by Cuthbert Mavheko

How the West is plotting to exploit Africa

IF designs of global money are not stopped in their tracks, Africa is threatened with environmental degradation and nutritional poverty. If we, as Africans, do not begin to think deeply about what is going to happen to what is left for us …

Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | | by Linda Apollo

Black Americans and black Africans relations

THE relationship between black Americans and black Africans has been a subject of interest for social scientists and writers for a long time.Some black Africans, especially students who go to live in the United States are often unprepared …

Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:11hrs | | by Miriam Tose Majome

Which African countries stand to benefit from AU-EU Summit?

AFRICA has a huge opportunity: The EU's new strategy for critical raw materials calls for diversification in supply chains, potentially opening up a big market for Africa's lithium, graphite, cobalt, nickel and rare earth elements, not to …

Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:10hrs | | by Conrad Onyango

10 reasons to consider African trade and investment opportunities in 2022

1. Visible green shoots â€“ rising commodity pricesThe pandemic closed borders and stopped trade, other than for essentials, across the continent and was the principal reason for a decline in investment in 2020. A lack of available capital…

Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:19hrs | 47 | by Lerisha Naidu

Population growth in Africa a concern to Europe?

EXACTLY 150 years ago, Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck became the Chancellor of the Germany Empire. He masterminded the unification of Germany in 1871 and served as its first Chancellor until 1890, in which capacity he dominated European …

Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo

Joe Biden's simple message to Africa: Save yourself

I went to university during the days of United States president J F Kennedy, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and the American dreamer, the Reverend Martin Luther King.The last 20 years have been dogged by mass immigrations of persecuted people runni…

Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 18:44hrs | | by Ken Mufuka

New portal drives SDGs in Africa

SEVENTEEN United Nations entities under the Africa Collaborative Regional Platform launched an online data portal, the first of its kind on the continent, to measure and evaluate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).The pla…

Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 08:24hrs | | by Southerners

Africa: A complex trajectory and legacy of military coups

FOR their spectacular nature, coups always appear like new phenomena when actually they are an old military and political issue that dates back to the genesis of humanity.It is like that in the affairs of nations that if power cannot be ne…

Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 18:49hrs | | by William Jethro Mpofu

Africa is not as bad as is portrayed by media

I AM really concerned about the role of mass media in this century. Firstly, because there is so much of it, secondly, because it can easily distort perceptions and understanding of what is really going on and its significance. Social medi…

Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 06:14hrs | | by Eddie Cross

Bill Gates should stop telling Africans what kind of agriculture Africans need

Africans have long been told that our agriculture is backward and should be abandoned for a 21st-century version of the Green Revolution that enabled India to feed itself. Western science and technology, in the form of seeds modified by sc…

Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 21:58hrs | | by Million Belay,Bridget Mugambe

POEM: Africa My Africa

Africa, my Africa, land of natural splendor and natural glamour, Where impish eagles whistle and dominate the skies while hawks screech and scream! The fight for aerial territorial space is a given! Africa, my Africa, land of glory and gla…

Published: 26 May 2021 at 05:43hrs | | by Thembani Dube

FAO: Agriculture will make or break Africa's free trade

Transforming agri-food systems can unlock Africa's potential.The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) holds the potential to lift millions of people out of poverty and end chronic food insecurity in Africa. However, its success res…

Published: 16 May 2021 at 06:36hrs | | by Abebe Haile-Gabriel

The controversial role of private military, security companies in Africa

PRIVATE military companies (PMCs) have been involved in conflicts around the world, including Africa, for a long time and and different reasons.The growth of private military contractors raises ethical questions surrounding the commerciali…

Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 07:21hrs | | by Jonathan Powell, Christopher Michael Faulkner, Joshua Lambert

Mastercard and Network International Pioneering Africa's digital payment revolution

Civilization has transformed trading and commerce from the prehistoric means which involved barter trades facilitated by the item-to-item exchange. The discrep

Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 11:27hrs | | by Staff Writter

Monarchy: The cornerstone of African existence

PRINCE Phillip is no longer in our midst. Some dark cloud seems to envelope Britain. May his soul rest in peace. A couple of weeks back, Southern Africa seemed to stand still under a similar dark cloud when isilo samabandla, Goodwill Zweli…

Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 05:55hrs | | by Zii Masiye

African education has many surprising outcomes

THE African education system has many surprising outcomes. The smartest students pass with first class marks and get admission to medical and engineering schools. The second class students get MBAs and LLBs to manage the first class studen…

Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 19:30hrs | | by Unkown

African universities' science A faculties a mockery

AFRICAN universities should discontinue their science faculties and concentrate their financial resources on the development of the arts, histories and music than misrepresent the sciences through presenting fake and passive models of the …

Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 06:16hrs | | by Reinford Khumalo

Stop giving despotics regimes in Africa a free pass

Authoritarian and dictatorial governments are repressive, corrupt and inefficient, and they threaten Africa's chances of unleashing the productive potential of its youth, writes Nelson Chamisa.Africa cannot afford to continue with the auth…

Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 18:16hrs | | by MDC Alliance President, Nelson Chamisa.

Africa is not a dumping ground

During the just-ended Thirty-Fourth Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly, which was held virtually, President ED Mnangagwa prompted African leaders to think seriously about establishing an African Pharmaceutical and Research Comp…

Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 07:56hrs | | by Prosperity Mzila

Countering reactionary and authoritarian politics in Africa

Africa cannot afford to continue with the authoritarian, dictatorial and despotic forms of governance that are predominant on the continent.Authoritarian and dictatorial governments are repressive, corrupt and inefficient. Their only purpo…

Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:50hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa

Africa's free trade area opens for business

Trading under the continental free trade agreement started on 1st Jan. African countries opened their markets on 1st January under the continental free trade agreement and duty-free trading of goods and services across borders is now under…

Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 08:37hrs | | by Franck Kuwonu

AfCFTA will launch Africa forward post Covid-19

THE African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was established in 2018 with the aim to create a single market for goods and services, facilitated by movement of persons to deepen the economic integration of the African continent, under t…

Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 10:03hrs | | by Admire Maparadza Dube

Why some drugs are tagged for Africa only

THE media has been awash with conspiracy theories on the vaccines that have been or are being rolled out to control Covid-19. In Africa a huge fraction of the population might hesitate, or even refuse entirely, to get vaccinated because of…

Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:07hrs | | by Nevanji Madanhire

Covid-19 where does Africa stand?

Theorists and gossipers are in sixth gear with discussions swirling around great conspiracy to wipe out a big chunk of the world population leaving only a small controllable and compliant size. Some fundis and terrace observers attribute t…

Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 11:34hrs | 40 | by Murisa

COVID-19 vaccine: Africa must work with China

THERE is a global race to procure COVID-19 vaccines, and right now South Africa is not doing well. Currently, the race leaders are Israel who have already vaccinated more than 9% of their population and Bahrain who have vaccinated almost 4…

Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:49hrs | | by Daily Maverick

There is no true independence without correcting historical colonialism

A comparative review of the wealth among Black Americans and their former slave masters is striking: Primary residence - 73% (Whites); 45% (Blacks); Vehicles - 90% (Whites); 73% (Blacks); Retirement accounts - 60% (Whites); (34%); Family-o…

Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 19:13hrs | | by Charles M

Africa remembers 'Zimbabwe's founding father' former president Robert Mugabe

Former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe has died at the age of 95.Mugabe had been receiving treatment in a hospital in Singapore since April. He was ousted in a

Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter

Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics

The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level of traumatised hostages by the same hope…

Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 20:20hrs | | by Reginald Thabani Gola

Sadc resolutions portend well for Africa's unity

In his seminal public lecture in South Africa, Prof Artwell Nhemachena succinctly attacks the jugular vein of coloniality by stating that: "African voices have spoken and cried but the world has not been humanistic and moral enough to list…

Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 06:32hrs | | by Dr Obert Mpofu

Russia rebuilding a bridge to Africa

About 35 leaders of African countries have officially confirmed their participation in the Russia-Africa Summit, Russian Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Africa and Deputy Foreign Minister, Mikhail Bogdanov, said mid-July. "Almos…

Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 08:17hrs | | by Kester Kenn Klomegah

Britain's New African Empire

Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange control over $1trillion worth of Africaâ€™s resources in just five commodities â€“ oil, gold, diamonds, coal and platinum. My research for the NGO, War on Want, which has just been published, r…

Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:16hrs | | by Mark Curtis

Congratulating Africa on the 10th anniversary of the Pelindaba Treaty, don't forget the CTBT!

Today, Africa is celebrating its tenth anniversary since the African Nuclear Weapon-Free-Zone treaty also referred to as the Pelindaba Treaty entered into force. The Pelindaba Treaty is a continental treaty that was adopted by African Stat…

Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:11hrs | | by Idriss Irakoze

Africa in the age of surveillance capitalism, neo-imperialism

One of my first lectures in graduate school was on how "enlightenment era" Europe imagined and mapped Africa. And some of the first maps were silent about the interior save for pyramids to the north, elephants on coasts and an unknown "dar…

Published: 30 May 2019 at 06:51hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

Africa's greatest resource is its young people

Africa's greatest resource is its young people, with their energy, creativity, and resilience. The 21st century could produce an African renaissance if governments and their development partners prioritize in investing in people, especiall…

Published: 29 May 2019 at 12:22hrs | | by Enos Denhere

Africa Day ADF speech 2019

Africa day is about the freedom of the African people, it is not so much more about the trivialisation of the ordinary people of Africa by those in the know or who claim so to be or in power. Africa day came hard after the liberation of se…

Published: 25 May 2019 at 15:14hrs | 305 | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda

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Sweden to cut aid to Zimbabwe and close embassy

Mnangagwa's railway revamp deal balloons from US$533m to US$3bn

BCC Fire Brigade Urged to Maintain Standby Teams for Fires and Flash Floods

Zimbabwean identity thief jailed in UK

WhatsApp ban risk

Zvimba West Communities Benefit from New Water Points and Road Upgrades

ZANU PF Government Provides Central Hospitals with Critical Care Equipment

Bulawayo City Council Tackles Over 1,800 Sanitation Chokes in October

Mthuli Ncube's 2026 budget does not pass the constitutional test

ZINARA to roll out e-Tags for all motorists by 2026

Econet claims its shares are 'grossly undervalued'

Mahere urges action on US$98 million BEAM arrears

Mnangagwa focuses on term extension

Higher royalties will boost gold smuggling from Zimbabwe

'2030 talk a decoy'

Wage storm rocks Highlanders

Warriors camp hit by turbulence, but Marinica says 'all is well'

Crackdown on unregistered schools

Spike in severe diabetes cases hits Zimbabwe

ZACC achieves 61% success in corruption fight

Madzibaba Ishmael faces at least 15 years in jail

Construction of Zanu-PF US$1m HQ in full swing

HIV infections surge among Ama2000

South Africa at a crossroads: Lessons from Zimbabwe's democratic decline

Woman fined for pouring hot porridge on husband

Mwaruwari set to join Highlanders as technical director

'Zimbabwe economy to grow 6%'

Zimbabwe acquires equipment for open-heart surgery

Zanu-PF councillor Mutangi found guilty of defrauding vendors

Police warn of rise in 'vuzu' parties

Zimbabwe battles diarrhoea, influenza outbreak

Zimbabwe cracks down on exploitative school fees

225,820 Male Condoms Distributed in Bulawayo Over Two Months

How Africans Were Conditioned Into Maize - and Slowly Abandoned Their Healthier Grains

Zanu-PF MP blames 'Tsepete-Tsepete roads' for speeding, road carnage

Hlatshwayo: Desire for upper-middle income status fueling 'Kiyakiya' economic statistics

Lochard Primary Sch holds first prize-giving, MP donates US$2,500 for construction works

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ZBC slashes Radio, TV licence fees

Warriors tipped for surprise AFCON run

Zinara introduces cashless tolling

Madzibaba Ishmael convicted of rape

Mpofu apologises to Mnangagwa

Mnangagwa pushes Zanu-PF to implement resolutions

ZPRA war vet plans solo anti-govt protest

Fresh charges for Prophet Magaya's bodyguard

Zimbabwe faces recurrent flood crisis

Education Ministry to Launch ‘One Pupil, One Tablet - One Student, One Laptop' Programme

Speculation mounts over Sibanda replacing Mohadi as Vice President

Ministry of Transport Showcases E-Tag System to Journalists at Ntabazinduna Tollgate