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Excited by the killings: How The Chronicle covered the Gukurahundi genocide
AbstractTHIS paper examines and interrogates the role of the state-controlled media during the Gukurahundi genocide in Zimbabwe. Gukurahundi is a genocide that took place in Zimbabwe betwe...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:51hrs | 9 | by Bhekinkosi Jakobe Ncube
Mangwana under fire
INFORMATION and Broadcasting Services secretary Ndavaningi ‘Nick' Mangwana has attracted brickbats after indirectly defending alleged gold smuggling exposed in Al Jeezera's documentary Gold Mafia: T...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Class IN itself versus Class FOR itself
US goose versus NED ganderTHERE is always more to write about than there is space to publish. Last week I had to drop two key matters, to allow myself to address in extenso what I sought to ra...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa: Is the Rainbow fading away?
Geographically, South Africa is another country, apart and distinct from our Zimbabwe. Experientially, South Africa is all Southern African countries, Zimbabwe especially. A whirlpool of event...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Turning the tide of moral degeneration
Sometimes one struggles with the concept of "societal progress" and its meaning. It loosely refers to "an advancement of major conditions of societies and people's lives in a direction considered to b...Published: 13 May 2021 at 12:24hrs | 3 | by Mpumelelo Ncube
Varakashi: New agents of terrorism
THERE'S a big, big omen of nasty things to come. The Zanu-PF government wants to revive the Green Bombers.You will remember the youth training programme at the turn of the new millennium....Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mr Mnangagwa, take time to listen
TO you our Head of State Emmerson Mnangagwa, whether by design or default, I guess it's mandatory that we, as citizens of the land, address you as our beloved President. With that as a show of...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why Africa finds it hard to support Chamisa's MDC
On the 11th of March 2007 the world woke up to shocking images of the bashed faces of Morgan Tsvangirai, Lovemore Madhuku and others after the police had forcibly dispersed an opposition organised gat...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
'Teachers' failure to embrace ICT skills stifling pupils' creativity'
GOVERNMENT has said failure by some teachers to embrace ICTs is stifling pupils' creativity. Addressing educationists and other guests at the commissioning of smart class equipment and an Earl...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
The circle of poison
The US continues to export pesticides, which are restricted in the US, to developing countries .In recent decades, harmful pesticides spread around the world's less developed nations have caused i...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 10:20hrs | | by Erick aMtotoba
New dispensation and the rotten apple theory
Election 2018 is over, and it ended with telling lessons for the two main parties in the race. Zanu-PF nearly paid the ultimate price for years of infighting; something that clearly affected the outco...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Delusions of Zimbabwe intellectuals
JUST like the media, intellectualism is often overrated as both a source of truth and of accurate information - more so in the field of socio-political commentary.Blatantly partial academic po...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:52hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
WATCH: Noam Chomsky on the new Trump era
In a wide-ranging interview with Al Jazeera English's current affairs show UpFront, Noam Chomsky spoke about the U.S. elections, Donald Trump and the media."There's never been anything lik...Published: 27 Nov 2016 at 14:34hrs | | by Aljazeera
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
Noam Chomsky on Clinton vs. Sanders
Professor Noam Chomsky, the U.S. academic, award-winning author and public intellectual, speaks with Al Jazeera English's Mehdi Hasan• Says he would "absolutely" vote for Hillary Clinton ove...Published: 01 Feb 2016 at 09:26hrs | | by Al Jazeera
Zimbabwe: Let us say Grace
At the expensive risk of being a hyperbolist, I argue that Zimbabwe is presently a political disaster that is impatiently waiting to happen. Anything can go wrong. Robert Mugabe, the old man, ha...Published: 10 Oct 2015 at 21:48hrs | 2 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwe is moving, evolving quite fast
Zimbabwe is moving, evolving quite fast. Not in the superficial neo-liberal sense in which a backsliding country can be pampered by Bretton Woods affiliates, pampered to vertiginous growth levels....Published: 22 Aug 2015 at 20:01hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zimbabwe: Memory, Knowledge and the difficult Future
Sometime in a lonely day in 1749, a small scale thinker with a taste for music and a reputation for familial irresponsibility was walking on a foot path in a village a few miles from Paris in France. ...Published: 19 Jan 2015 at 14:30hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Even Mandela was Pro-Palestine
He who controls the media can commit war crimes and get away with it.Israel for one. On Sunday 20th of July they refused a 3 hour humanitarian ceasefire requested by the International Red Cros...Published: 20 Jul 2014 at 21:28hrs | | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere
Zimbabwe: The rise of spectator democracy
WHEN Woodrow Wilson was elected to the presidency of the United States in 1916 his administration was committed to joining World War I at a time the US population was so pacifist that it saw no reaso...Published: 30 Jun 2012 at 16:14hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Zuma is coming on a rescue mission
Russia's Putin has won a new term into Presidential Office. With that victory comes a new ogre for Europe and America, both of which are already talking of discovering Putin's vulnerabilities for a co...Published: 12 Mar 2012 at 07:24hrs | | 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
Revolution: Betrayal versus reason
A SLAVE who does not organise his own rebellion deserves no pity for his lot. He alone is responsible for his misfortune, especially if he harbours illusions in the dubious assurances of a master's pr...Published: 28 Jul 2011 at 05:12hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
War against racist myths of 'democracy'
There is a white racist myth of "democracy" which has taken root among certain groups in Zimbabwe in the last 15 years or so. It has been promoted through foreign-funded NGOs and foreign-sponsored med...Published: 12 Jun 2011 at 10:04hrs | | by Tafataona Mahoso
West uses media to invent enemies
SOUTH AFRICA, Nigeria, Gabon and the Arab League have all expressed surprise that the US, UK and Nato have used UN Security Council Resolution 1973 on Libya in ways which are not supported by the reso...Published: 03 Apr 2011 at 19:59hrs | | by Tafataona Mahoso
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