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Mnangagwa ropes in Chiefs to pacify Matabeles over genocide
In Bulawayo, the government has launched the Gukurahundi Community Outreach Programme, aimed at addressing the divisive legacy of the 1980s Gukurahundi conflict, which resulted in the deaths of an est...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 08:38hrs | 332 | by Staff reporter
Breaking the Chains: Liberating African Men from the Shackles of Patriarchy
In many societies such as our own, the weight of patriarchy has burdened men and boys alike with unrealistic expectations of strength, resilience, and emotional detachment. This toxic narrative has cr...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 10:10hrs | | by Mberi Prince
Eswatini revolution today and Zimbabwe tomorrow: Catharsis in the words of Franz Fanon
"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better," wrote a theologian Richard Hooker in the 16th century. Confronted with a dilemma on one hand: Violence is a tool in which Zimbabw...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 19:49hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Considerations on Zimbabwe's future
ZIMBABWE'S future is rarely discussed in holistic terms in everyday conversations. This is because the future is always in the immediate.This may appear contradictory or even complex, but it i...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Zupco jokes, economic class and hedonistic individualism in Zimbabwe
There can be a bit of a laugh, if you are on social media, concerning the political-economic goings-on in Zimbabwe.There should not (strictly speaking) be. But on social media, there is and hu...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 06:56hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Motlanthe urges Mnangagwa to solve Gukurahundi issue
Former South Africa's former President Kgalema Motlanthe has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to solve the Gukurahundi issue to heal the nation."In Bulawayo we had people talkin...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 11:07hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Motlanthe lived in Bulawayo's Mpopoma suburb
Former South African president Kgalema Motlanthe, who has been leading a commission investigating the killing of six protesters in Harare on August 1, has revealed for the first time his close ties wi...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 15:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Polls aftermath: Highly personal but collective political catharsis
THERE was always going to be a disputed winner of Zimbabwe's 2018 elections, especially after Robert Mugabe was no longer on the presidential ballot paper.And it was always going to be very pe...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:42hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Chamisa: don't play with fire in a village so full of thatched roundavels
Where I come from you don't begrudge a child for darning clay into a mighty 'bull'. That is called creative play, for clay hurts no living being, and does not add one beast more into the kraal. So you...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:33hrs | | by Igomombe
No leadership beyond reproach - Zanu PF UK
Zanu PF UK Chairman Nick Mangwana has said there is no leadership without reproach as long as that leadership always holds itself accountable to its electorate.The remarks are contrary t...Published: 01 Jul 2016 at 05:02hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
The day the Zimbabwean dollar died
LATELY, national focus and debate has been on breathtaking malfeasances affecting key institutions of our country. The names which have stood largest in that whole debate have been ZBC, PSMAS, M...Published: 02 Feb 2014 at 13:00hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Tsvangirai still holding the key but Mugabe has changed the locks
I think I owe Zimbabweans a tribute. They are a humorous lot. It is an ingrained part of our national character, a vital part I would never trade off for anything. We must never lose it. This habit ...Published: 15 Jun 2013 at 18:52hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
The other Tsvangirai who stole the book
"What a dust thou dost raise! Smallest of mortals, when mounted aloft by circumstances, come to seem great; smallest of phenomena connected with them are treated as important, and must be sedulously ...Published: 14 Jan 2012 at 06:54hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
How was Gaddafi going to retreat
behind the deep, yawning sea, above which hovered ferocious NATO air power?As I write this piece, Gaddafi has been executed by the so-called revolution...Published: 24 Oct 2011 at 06:34hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Nyikayaramba: Teaching the MDC what the soil refuses
The mighty argument between our death-wishing Prime Minister and Brigadier-General (Douglas) Nyikayaramba is just too sumptuous for cantankerous Manheru to let pass. I have to dip into the pot, mould...Published: 03 Jul 2011 at 05:22hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Loss and Unrealised Dreams
Loss and Unrealised DreamsI recently ...Published: 05 May 2011 at 20:57hrs | | by A.A.V Amasi
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