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The war in Sudan is still happening and the world has moved on
Somewhere between the latest tech layoffs, celebrity gossip, and viral TikToks about how to season your trauma with lavender oil and affirmations, a war is still raging in Sudan. Yes, still. Not metap...Published: 14 May 2025 at 23:00hrs | 360 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Next Generation of Energy Leaders to Drive Transformation at the African Energy Week (AEW) 2024
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - With Africa serving as a dynamic hub for oil and gas, renewable energy and cutting-edge technologies, the participation of youth in the sector is crucial to bringing in new p...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 17:52hrs | 204 | by APO
Politicians are fuelling hate crimes
ONLY hate and barbarism could have produced the sort of spectacle the world witnessed a few weeks ago when a baying mob of South Africans moved from house to house in Johannesburg's Diepsloot slum to ...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:37hrs | 2 | by Addy Kudita
2021 marks four wasted years under Cyril Ramaphosa
Concluding his tour of four African countries in Dakar, President Cyril Ramaphosa told reporters that challenges faced by his administration in 2021 "combined to create just a catastrophic year"....Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 14:16hrs | 15 | by Professor Sipho Seepe
Mnangagwa's ignorance on economics: Mthuli Ncube his best Boss ever
Even Mnangagwa's law degree is questioned by many. If Mnangagwa had a slender idea how the economy works, they would never launder money to Chinese banks in billions of dollars. He would know that kis...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 18:45hrs | 15 | by Nomazulu Thata
Why is West silent on South Africa violence?
In August 2018, just after Zimbabwe's general elections, the country witnessed some demonstrations that were staged by opposition activists who had lost patience in waiting for the presidential electi...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:19hrs | 2 | by Mukachana Hanyani
South Africans thought they were better Africans than black Africa: Thanks Zuma has set the record straight
"All of us must thank Jacob Zuma for introducing African Republic of South Africa and not some outpost of European values." This comes from a Sowetan column sent to me by a friend. The article is an i...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 16:17hrs | 25 | by Nomazulu Thata
World Bank, African Union's COVID vaccine task force, all set to deploy vaccines to 400 million Africans
World Bank President David Malpass, and his senior management team, comprised of Dr Axel van Trotsenburg and Dr Makhtar Diop, have met with the African Union's COVID-19 Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 16:05hrs | 26 | by Agencies
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 integr...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 10:03hrs | | by Admire Maparadza Dube
Zimbabwe govt neglect driving citizens across borders
RURAL communities in southern Zimbabwe are bearing the brunt of government neglect, 39 years after independence forcing them to turn to neighbouring South Africa for greener pastures and general upkee...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 12:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2019 Africa Day Celebrations @ Valley Crest Academy - 'What it means to be African'
The Interact Club at Valley Crest Academy (VCA) in Waterfalls-Park town in Harare hosted the 25th of May 2019 Africa Day celebrations in style. Huxton High school based in Waterfalls added the hive of...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 07:29hrs | 14 | by Brian Maregedze
Human Rights petitions AU over Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) has written to the African Union (AU) chairperson and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, demanding the regional body to urgently intervene and assist ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 14:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
HIV, TB, STIs wreak havoc in SA
HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have claimed too many South African lives.Today, defeating these diseases is a national priority, with the mission of the late...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's ethics of liberation
Since his sad passing away on 1 July 1999 Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo's name and life have continued to arrest public attention and imagination at a world scale.As I write the Zimbabwean historian an...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:18hrs | 1 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Open letter to Black Americans: African lives matter too
Black Lives Matter must be more than just a slogan or a preserve of African Americans being shot by the American police force. It must be all encompassing for black people everywhere across the globe....Published: 28 Sep 2016 at 08:33hrs | 4 | by Whitlaw Tanyanyiwa Mugwiji
Open letter to Black Americans: African lives matter too
Black Lives Matter must be more than just a slogan or a preserve of African Americans being shot by the American police force. It must be all encompassing for black people everywhere across the globe....Published: 27 Sep 2016 at 20:15hrs | | by Whitlaw Tanyanyiwa Mugwiji
SADC/AU culpable for wars and conflicts in Africa
African - for decades - has had the unenviable label of being the 'war capital of the world', due the seemingly never-ending conflicts ravaging the continent - thereby, impoverishing and destroying th...Published: 28 Jul 2016 at 09:16hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
President Mugabe's private life in serious conflict
A hypocrite is a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one who's private life, opinion, or statements belie his or her public statements....Published: 02 Feb 2016 at 07:09hrs | | by Israel Dube
History of Labor in Zimbabwe before and after independence - Part one
If the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia; Ian Douglas Smith was alive today he would concur that the white regime lost the war because of the failure of the government to implement labor laws an...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 12:50hrs | 45 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Ubuntu' means Africa must take the lead when dealing with Ebola
07 May 2015: The concept of 'Ubuntu' should be applied to the ethical treatment of Ebola - and other neglected tropical diseases - in order to change the way that African countries respond to the dis...Published: 07 May 2015 at 16:59hrs | | by Epic MSLGroup
I am Emmanuel Sithole too, a migrant worker, do I deserve to die too?
The second letter to the workers of Zimbabwe 1st May 2015, Izisebenzi/VashandiHow are we going to sing those workers' songs on the 1st of May with ...Published: 23 Apr 2015 at 17:53hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Understanding ZAPU's Vision and mission of liberation pt 1.
Understanding ZAPU's Vision and mission of liberation pt 1.For one to understand ZAPU and its vision, we believe that first one must understand the party's genesis from 1961 to date. The following...Published: 22 Dec 2014 at 13:30hrs | 2 | by Taurai Njekete
MRP's Messege on Africa Day - Marginalisation Is Human Right Abuse
Today is Africa Day where we are supposed to be celebrating our independence from the colonial rulers as Africans, celebrate our diversity, our core existence as different tribes and races found i...Published: 24 May 2014 at 14:47hrs | | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Mugabe's cows eat our grass claims South Africans
LIVESTOCK time bomb is ready to explode in the northern part of Mzansi claims the a South African tabloid the Daily Sun!Cattle, donkeys and other animals are crossing through holes in the ...Published: 31 May 2012 at 15:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
AIDS breakthrough high hopes hit tight budgets
After 30 years and over 20 million deaths in Africa alone, US researchers report that early treatment of people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that leads to AIDS cuts transmissi...Published: 24 Aug 2011 at 18:49hrs | | by Michael Fleshman
Raila Odinga: Unmasking the archetype of violence
Today, Friday April 29 2011 the leader of Kenya's Orange Democratic Movement Raila Odinga is scheduled to visit Zimbabwe in his personal capacity to deliver a keynote address at the MDC-T Congress in ...Published: 29 Apr 2011 at 09:43hrs | 15 | by George Rugare Chingarande
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