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Unity Accord: Pan-Africanism & nationalist leadership legitimacy
THE celebration of Unity Day this year registers yet another moment of our ideological reconnection as a nation.The same commemoration allows us to audit ZANU-PF's legitimacy.In this i...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:40hrs | 6 | by Dr Obert Moses Mpofu
World Refugee speech from the African Diaspora
Refugees are the most vulnerable group of migrants who have no choice but to move or flee. These are people in flight, and who have lost in most cases the protection of their countries. Even in the ho...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 21:27hrs | | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
Mnangagwa's false start
AS undergraduates in our day, one of the most cynical commentaries on post-independent Africa was French writer, Rene Dumont's book False Start in Africa (1966).Those were the years of militar...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Mthwakazi accused of plagiarising Malema's manifesto
SECESSIONIST outfit Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) was yesterday caught in a plagiarism storm after they allegedly took Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party's manifesto word for word ...Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 13:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
As secessionist wave sweeps through the world - the case for Mthwakazi
As the secessionist wave sweeps through the world - especially in Spain's Catalonia, Iraq's Kurdistan, the United Kingdom's Scotland, Nigeria's Biafra, the English-speaking people of Cameroon, and man...Published: 12 Oct 2017 at 07:39hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Turning to Afrocentric paradigm of conceptualising the 'nation'
As I sat to write this piece my mind was taken back to the academic wars that raged in the lecture rooms of my political science class. There were controversial modules which fuelled these gross debat...Published: 15 May 2016 at 07:53hrs | 2 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Bulawayo International Art Fair 1st Edition
Bulawayo International Art Fair, the expected premier fair for Modern and Contemporary art, debuts from 27-30 April 2016. For its 1st ever edition, the Fair will encompass four days of visual and perf...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by BIAF
If I am Kalanga, so what?
KALANGA is one of the officially recognised languages embedded as an obligation in section 6 of Zimbabwe's constitution. To someone with normal, functional faculties, this would mean those of our citi...Published: 09 May 2015 at 15:41hrs | | by Welshman Ncube
The trouble of Educating Robert Mugabe's Assassin
In recent days certain bold but infantile statements have been made that have caused some of us to reflect seriously on the problem of political silliness and historical idiocy in Zimbabwe. On the s...Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 21:49hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Enos Nkala the 'mass murderer' who died a pauper
Zimbabwe's former Minister of Defence, in his last few years of life must have cursed the day he invited Robert Mugabe into his house, 4449 Highfields, sat down with others in what was the founding of...Published: 09 Oct 2014 at 11:57hrs | 46 | by Sibusiso Ngwenya
Former Nigerian president 'Obasanjo' expected in Zim
AFRICAN Union Observer Mission chairperson and former Nigerian president General Olusegun Obasanjo is expected in Harare tomorrow to lead the team in observing the July 31 harmonised elections, AU Co...Published: 25 Jul 2013 at 22:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
When we can't trust ourselves after Mugabe
"One of the commonest manifestations of underdevelopment is a tendency among the ruling elite to live in a world of make-believe and unrealistic expectations. This is the cargo cult mentality that ant...Published: 23 Mar 2013 at 17:08hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Chinua Achebe dies after a brief illness
Renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has died at the age of 82 after a brief illness, BBC reports.A statement from his family said his "wisdom and courage" were an "inspiration to all who kn...Published: 22 Mar 2013 at 10:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Just how much is the life of an African worth?
It pains me to start by the conclusion but facts and figures I am faced with show me that we Africans do not have regard or value another African's life. In America it is calculated that an citizen's&...Published: 28 Feb 2013 at 11:32hrs | | by Velempini Ndlovu
The Sata - Mugabe fatal 'patriotic' camaraderie
The alarm bells are chiming as one of the most disconcerting relationships brews right before our eyes. We are worried, concerned about the Sata-Mugabe connection and yet we remain as mute as lamb. ...Published: 22 Aug 2012 at 12:07hrs | 1 | by Field Ruwe
Devolution of power: To be or not to be devolved!
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe recently stirred the hornet's nest when he indicated that he was opposed to devolution of power in the new constitution. He has not been alone in his crusade as Local Governme...Published: 25 Mar 2012 at 05:44hrs | 1 | by Dumisani Nkomo
Why I fully understand the secession viewpoint, yet still remain unconvinced: Ralph Mguni
I read with bemused interest, the attack on the int...Published: 05 Aug 2011 at 22:03hrs | | by Dr R Mguni
How Not to Promote Freedom in Africa
In a peculiar way, the fall of Zine Ben Ali, sole master of Tunisia for a quarter century, exposes the bankruptcy of a centerpiece of America's foreign policy, namely, our declared support for democra...Published: 17 Jan 2011 at 14:36hrs | | by Byo24NEWS | Roger Kaplan
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