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Britain tried to exile Zulu King to Zimbabwe
In a remarkable revelation, King Misuzulu KaZwelithini recently shared that the British-governed Natal Province of South Africa sought to exile Zulu King Dinuzulu to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - an area also ...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:26hrs | 1097 | by Staff reporter
'ZPRA archives handed to British and American govts'
A former government minister claims that the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) archives, confiscated by Zanu immediately after independence, were handed over to the British and American gove...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 14:46hrs | 38 | by Staff reporter
ANC's Nomusa Dube-Ncube rejects diplomatic post
Nomusa Dube-Ncube, former premier of KwaZulu-Natal, has declined an offer to serve as an ambassador.Her tenure as premier ended recently when the ANC chose Thami Ntuli, IFP provincial chairper...Published: 21 Jun 2024 at 12:32hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
'UK fomented Gukurahundi genocide in Zimbabwe'
Former members of the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) who served during the post-independence disturbances in Matebeleland claim that the British government, angered by the property acqui...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 06:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zpra veterans want their colleagues to be honoured
Former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zpra) liberation are pleading with the government to declare a national holiday in remembrance of their colleagues, who were bombed by the Rhodesian army i...Published: 22 Oct 2023 at 10:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Shock as Ramaphosa tears Thabo Mbeki speech apart
South African President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa shocked South Africans during his 2023 State Of the Nation Address when he began hi opening remarks by tearing apart the "I Am an African" speech that ...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 10:45hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mtshana Khumalo: The general who outfoxed villain Allan Wilson
A MILITARY tactician, General Mtshana Khumalo, commanded an elite group of fighters tasked with safeguarding King Lobengula's life and dignity as he trekked north at the height of the Matabele War of ...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:27hrs | 14 | by Elliot Ziwira
The paradigm of war and interests
The unbalanced informational diet from western media outlets makes it seem so ordinary, normal, and even natural that President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, is the real devil in all this.West...Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | 1 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
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 clou...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Zii Masiye
How to think in Dark Times
"DO nothing but think" is a philosophical proverb that is much mistakenly attributed to the Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Zizek. Slavoj Zizek only stole and made famous the pithy statement. The genera...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:48hrs | | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
State Capture: The imperfect metaphor
Language and its expressions and metaphors does not only deliver messages and meaning but it can also do a lot to hide the truth. In that way language can be used, sometimes innocently and at ...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:20hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Unknown secrets about Dabengwa
It was in 2007 when l had four consecutive dreams about the same thing: l was talking to Dr Joshua Nkomo& he instructed me to go to Silobela&meet an old man from the Moyo clan& to deliver ...Published: 26 May 2019 at 01:04hrs | 2 | by Benard Conrad Magugu
On Decolonising Governmentality
It is a truly careless but also stubborn truism that if we had no nation-states in the world we would not have nationless and stateless people. Nations and states are the source of nationlessness and ...Published: 05 May 2019 at 09:57hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Critical consciousness and educatedness
Even some of the leading philosophers and theorists of education have made the mistake of thinking that being informed is the same thing as being educated.In actuality one may accumulate quant...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:44hrs | 4 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Man jailed 30 years for raping step-daughter
A 32-YEAR-OLD Silobela man was yesterday sentenced to 60 years in jail for raping his 13-year-old step-daughter on four occasions.The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the vi...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa: Beyond the captive state
The phrase "state capture" comes very easily into our formal and informal communication these days.What is not easy, however, is true understanding of what the phrase fundamentally means. In S...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:36hrs | 2 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Decolonising Political Philosophy in Africa
It is the argument of the present piece that in the history of the world Africans have and still can produce, independent of Europe and America, political and economic ideas that can save the world. F...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:34hrs | | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
De-Westernisation towards Decolonisation
Most of what are called African problems today are problems that Europe and America have caused or at least promoted in the continent.Most African problems, including civil wars and genocides,...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:40hrs | | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
An inherited crisis of imagination: A Long Essay concerning the understanding of Zimbabwe - Pt2
Continuing from here...Truth be said, this is a great opportunity for Mnangagwa. And truth be repeated, the...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 19:03hrs | | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
Planetarity: From Third World to Global South
Presently it is the true stuff of political and intellectual fashion to refer to Africa, Latin America and even Asia as collectively the Global South.For the reason that there are more politic...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:29hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindaba Mabhena
Bulawayo's Luthuli Dlamini takes City to the world
LUTHULI Dlamini who plays Advocate Zulu on the popular SABC1's Uzalo, is a celebrated actor currently based in South Africa. However, in his native country he is an unsung creative gem despite him rep...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 05:38hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Decoloniality and critical encounters
I found my sorry self in the unenviable position of addressing the Pharisees of quality and standards in South African higher education.The police officers and magistrates of the academy. The ...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:23hrs | 1 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Patrick Lumumba: How to become a Colonial Constable
Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba does not only speak on African solutions for African problems, he raises hell and does not let any sleeping dogs lie. The Kenyan Pan-Africanist lawyer and judge does not ta...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 09:54hrs | 3 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Joshua Nkomo considered a military solution
What I find interesting is the evidence that Joshua Nkomo seriously considered a military solution and went to implore South Africa to be neutral. Obviously South Africa would not have been neutral as...Published: 04 Aug 2017 at 14:04hrs | 1 | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane @ facebook
Human profits of decoloniality at large
It was about to be a planetary truism that our world has become an information and even knowledge society.In the present age of technological magic, the century of the social media and era of ...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 12:01hrs | 6 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
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 | | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Treachery of African philosophy
One of the unseemly decorations of Western science and philosophy has been, in this century and its many forerunners, its vaunting and chest-beating arrogance.Without a single dot of shame, Fr...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:27hrs | | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Bosso, Majaivana and other taboos
A number of political philosophers and sociologists of the Global South have noted how sport and religion were used by colonialists to divert the minds and energies of natives from politics.Of...Published: 30 May 2017 at 09:24hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena writes from South Africa
Mugabe's ministers 'celebrate' Mzembi's defeat
Hospitality Industry Minister Walter Mzembi failure to land the UNWTO Secretary General post in Madrid, Spain today is a huge relief to his fellow cabinet members.Had he pulled the victo...Published: 12 May 2017 at 15:11hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Man, the silliest animal
A soldier looks at buildings ravaged by war in SyriaIT is perhaps true that human beings in their true state of nature began as citizens of a small world in a huge planet; through intelligence...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 17:27hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
The born free and other dangerous myths
It comes easy in Africa to call the young men and women born after political independence as the "born free" generation. What the nature of their freedom is, what they are free from, and what priv...Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 13:17hrs | 13 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
ANC defeat is not regime change conspiracy but people power - nyika vanhu
For all the claim by the African nationalists that they were fighting to end white colonial oppression and exploitation and for freedom, liberty, justice, human rights and dignity and economic emancip...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 14:33hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
The ANC and the crisis of democracy in Africa
Since its formation as an African party, not just a South African liberation movement in 1912, the African National Congress has had its slogan as "Amandla!" which is a determined cry for power. T...Published: 07 Aug 2016 at 10:33hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Liberating the University in Africa
Presently there are emphatic currents of argument all calling for either the transformation, Africanisation or the decolonisation of the university in Africa. Long years of university education in Afr...Published: 08 May 2016 at 10:44hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Mzilikazi Khumalo: The king and the myths
Typical of the many African pre-colonial military and political leaders, the name and legacy of Mzilikazi Khumalo is enveloped in colonial and racist myths. European adventurous explorers and prospect...Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 21:27hrs | 4 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
The long trial of Joshua Nkomo
Even as he rests in peace, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo faces contesting judgments. In appreciation he is "Father Zimbabwe," the adorable "Umdala Wethu" who was once called "Chibwechitedza," the small slipper...Published: 14 Feb 2016 at 10:46hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Arrogant Brits shrugs off Zulu king's demands
Durban - The British Royal family have shrugged off demands made by Zulu monarch Goodwill Zwelithini that they reimburse the Zulu kingdom for destroying his great-grandfather's palace in 1879....Published: 24 Jun 2015 at 15:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zulu king wants British royals to pay up for destroying Zulu palace in 1879
King Goodwill Zwelithini wants the British royal family to pay the Zulu kingdom for destroying his great-grandfather's palace in 1879, a ...Published: 24 Jun 2015 at 11:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zulu king's anti-foreigner speech causes alarm
Durban - Comments by the Zulu king that foreigners should go back to their home countries because they are changing the nature of South African society with their amanikiniki or goods and enjoying we...Published: 25 Mar 2015 at 13:38hrs | 1 | by Bongani Hans
MDC-T activist convicted of political violence
An MDC-T activist from Lupane has been sentenced to 350 hours of community service for political violence following an attack on a group of Zanu-PF supporters in the run-up to the June 2008 presidenti...Published: 16 Jul 2012 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Arms caches belonged to Umkonto Wesizwe - Zipra members reveal
Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) has disclosed that arms caches found at it properties in the early 1980s belonged to Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) of South Africa.MK is an wing of African...Published: 29 May 2012 at 05:28hrs | 1 | by Alois Sibanda
Sihube bus accident death toll rises to five
THE death toll of the Sihube bus that overturned on the outskirts of Bulawayo on Friday has risen to five amid revelations the bus was overloaded, the Chronicle reported.Two people died on the...Published: 09 Jan 2012 at 20:08hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
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