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Zimbabweans should know that independence never guarantees freedom
This is a truth that has seemingly been lost on many people. For some strange reason, we appear to believe that the attainment of political independence by a country automatically translates i...Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 16:19hrs | 605 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Africans' 'victim mentality' now sickening and disgraceful!
I know what racism, racial segregation and discrimination are - having spent the first seven years of my life under colonial rule in the then Rhodesia.Thereafter, facing the same at the dawn o...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 12:32hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why I boycotted Queen Elizabeth II
I WAS a Lower Sixth student at Prince Edward School in Harare, Zimbabwe, when Queen Elizabeth II visited our school in October 1991. Zimbabwe was hosting that year's Commonwealth Heads of Government M...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:07hrs | 4 | by Tafi Mhaka
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 ...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:11hrs | | by Miriam Tose Majome
Black rights now need to transcend elitism and racism, but be inclusive of all Black people across the globe!
The month of February is traditionally known as Black History Month - whose origins stem from a proposal by Black educators, and the Black United Students...Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 13:53hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
George Soros: The man behind the Matabeleland North land fight
George Soros is a renowned businessman who made his money from hedge funds and decided to become a philanthropist sponsoring what he calls democracy projects around the world. His name has bee...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 15:17hrs | 2 | by Chrispen Khumalo
Mnangagwa wants Cecil John Rhodes remains taken to Europe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has suggested that the remains of British imperialist Cecil John Rhodes can be removed from the Matopos National Park in Matabeleland South and returned to the Unite...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:10hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's successes celebrated in US?
Scores of people today converged in New York city to celebrate the works and positive vibes that have been brought by President Mnangagwa since he became President. On the backdrop of a succes...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe anti-sanctions fight reaches UN HQ
SCORES of people, led by anti-imperialist group December 12 (D12) Movement yesterday picketed at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, United States of America, calling for the removal of illeg...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
As Rhodes falls Nehanda arises
WHILE Zimbabweans bemoan the little money spent to remember a mother of our liberation, the Black Lives Matter Movement engulfs the globe after the massacre of George Floyd. Resultantly, statues and m...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:39hrs | | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Gugulethu Moyo is accuses Jewish museum of racism and sexism
Zimbabwean lawyer Gugulethu Moyo has abruptly resigned from her job as executive director of the Jewish History Museum/Holocaust History Center in Tucson, Arizona, in the United States, citing racism ...Published: 03 May 2021 at 07:33hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Black Lives Matter (BLM) campaign: Human Rights Orgs /institutions & Churches conflict of interest
Many doubting Thomases think that the Black lives Matter (BLM)campaign has no genuine cause. Some evil people who are proracist are trying to denigrate that campaign or vilify it, so that they d...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 19:36hrs | 1 | by Njabulo
Executive failing corruption fight
ROSA Parks is not just a name in the United States. She is a torchbearer when it comes to civil rights movements. Parks one day decided not to give her seat to a white person in a public bus. ...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mapfumo calls for UN intervention in Zimbabwe
CELEBRATED United States- based Zimbabwean Chimurenga musician and human rights activist, Thomas Mapfumo, has appealed to the international community to immediately intervene and stop what he calls an...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa movie on 'rigged' 2018 elections released
AMERICA just scraped through an election where the President of the United States and a radical sect of his colleagues and constituents incorrectly claimed that there was fraud that resulted in the Re...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:46hrs | | by Slash Film
USA democracy under the spotlight
The year has started on a bad note with the COVID-19 pandemic taking lives, causing sickness, destroying livelihoods and depriving people of freedoms. It is like starting a new a day under a thick dar...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:58hrs | 13 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Zimbabwe's Rtd Col. Dyck holds fort in Mozambique
SOUTHERN African Development Community leaders gathered for an emergency meeting this week in Maputo, Mozambique, following a recent get-together in Gaborone, Botswana, to discuss the volatile politic...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 16:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans' own cowardice main reason for continued suffering and subjugation
As much as I pray each day for God Almighty to strengthen Zimbabweans so that we finally have the boldness, decency, and self-respect to stand up, in demanding our rights for a divinely-appointed dign...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 09:17hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'#BlackLivesMatter movement to continue'
A UNITED States political expert has predicted that the #BlackLivesMatter movement will persist regardless of who wins the country's highly-charged presidential election set for next month as the prot...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Does the Rule of Law exist in the so called, 'ROLE MODELS SUPERPOWER COUNTRIES'?
This digital age has experienced a genocide of blacks perpetrated by the white supremacists in the USA. The genocide in question, was not only perpetrated by their white supremacists police, but by al...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:15hrs | | by Njabulo
The West's hypocrisy exposed as pregnant journalist gets arrested for incitement in Australia
The world was shocked as an Australian woman was arrested in her pyjamas and very pregnant on camera in front of her two minor children and her partner. Australian police in Ballarat Victoria arrested...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 19:52hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Honouring the war spirit
COMRADE Muchazotida, born Sekai, was a member of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, better known as ZANLA.She died during the 1977 Chimoio Attack by the army of racist Rhodesia....Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:49hrs | | by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa
Masiyiwa Saga: A different perspective
In your response to Human Rights Watch's Ken Roth in the context of the unedifying Dewa-Masiyiwa episode that opened our new year, you say:"Consider, Mr Roth, that it is possible that we Z...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 12:15hrs | 2 | by Tawandah Mutasa
A disgrace to the Black race
As Black History Month closes, and African Americans in the United States (US) have celebrated and reflected on their role in that nation's shaping, it would be everyone's hope that they also took a g...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 07:55hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Winston Coltart, tell Nkosana Moyo he is in wrong basket: Gukurahundi demos have started in London!
Winston Coltart sees injustices in our history of Zimbabwe Nkosana sees ANOTHER opportunity to make FAME AND FORTUNE in Zimbabwe market opportunities Winston Coltart seeks justice for ...Published: 28 Dec 2017 at 19:00hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
German's CDU of Angela Merkel: no coalition with Neo-Nazi party! And opposition parties in Zimbabwe?
Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Party is having a horrendous task in forming a coalition government: in Zimbabwe, Zanu PF was spoilt for choices: who in the opposition can they pick-and cherry: t...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 14:38hrs | 4 | by Nomazulu Thata
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
Chris Brown arrested for 'pointing gun at woman'
US singer Chris Brown has been arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after a woman told police he had threatened her with a gun.Beauty queen Baylee Curran told the LA Times...Published: 31 Aug 2016 at 08:32hrs | 4 | by BBC
New York breakthrough for South African actress
Following a two-year hiatus, South African actress Denise Mosiana has finally made headway into the cutthroat New York theatre industry. Mosiana has been thrust with the responsibility of play...Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 15:57hrs | 89 | by Agencies
WATCH: Black Live Matter UK #ShutDown main road to Heathrow International Airport
...Published: 05 Aug 2016 at 16:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans can't wait for 2018 polls, Mugabe has to go now
Cape Town - Zimbabwean nationals marched to the Zimbabwean Consulate in Cape Town on Thursday to deliver a petition calling for President Robert Mugabe to step down, ...Published: 14 Jul 2016 at 16:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe slams US, France over human rights hypocrisy
THE Government has rapped the US and French administrations for trying to lecture to Zimbabwe civil rights and democratic practices that are not even accepted by their own systems. This follow...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe
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