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Harare City Council renames major roads
In a landmark move to celebrate African liberation heroes, prominent national figures, and influential global revolutionaries, the Harare City Council has officially renamed several of the capital's k...Published: 07 Jun 2025 at 10:43hrs | 1322 | by Staff reporter
CIO was trained and worked closely with CIA and MI6
Recently declassified files have confirmed that the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) once operated secret offices in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe), aligning with claims ma...Published: 19 Mar 2025 at 15:35hrs | 2714 | by Staff reporter
Germany solution - A Path to Zimbabwe's Economic Revival
Zimbabwe's government is currently grappling with significant economic challenges, including destroyed infrastructure, reduced food production, high unemployment rates, and shortages of basic goods. T...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 10:26hrs | 8 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Harare backs Moscow
WINDS of a renewed Cold War between the United States and Russia - thunderously manifesting itself in Ukraine through iron and blood - swept across the southern African region this week as Russian For...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Russia's re-engagement with Africa pays off
ON March 2, the United Nations General Assembly in New York was asked to vote on a resolution, calling for Russian troops to withdraw from Ukraine "immediately, completely and unconditionally."...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 06:19hrs | 2 | by Deutsche Welle
Security agents stalk war veteran
THE fight for control of Caps Holdings Limited (CHL) has turned nasty, with war veteran and businessman Frederick Mutanda alleging that State security agents were involved in a plot to assassinate him...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Why did Ian Smith give in so easily and abruptly?
Let's look abroad before coming home. We all know Donald John Trump, the 45th and current President of the USA. If Trump were African, they would say Africans are daft to have elected him president. B...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 13:36hrs | 4 | by Baffour Ankomah
'ZAPU still regarded a terrorist organisation'
Opposition political party, Zapu is still regarded as terrorist organisation decades after the party assisted the country in attaining its independence.The party was not delisted as a terroris...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 17:09hrs | 6 | by Lulu Brenda Harris
Is Zimbabwe falling into the coup trap?
A coup d'état, can be understood as the sudden and illegal removal of the incumbent using force or the threat of force.The "stroke of the State" as per the French translation is often a swift...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Munyaradzi Ziburawa
Dabengwa opens up on Gukurahundi
ZAPU president Dumiso Dabengwa who also served as the chief of Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) intelligence - has poured his heart out on the highly emotive issue – reminding the author...Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 06:42hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Election 2018: The prospects
Zimbabwe is once again heading into another election, as has become the norm, every five years since 1980.We are one of the few countries that did not start off as a one party state after we a...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 16:00hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
No reburials for Gukurahundi victims, only a big plaque is enough--Mphoko
Thousands of Gukurahundi victims in Matabeleland and the Midlands do not deserve to be exhumed for decent burials as it is unAfrican, President Phelekezela Mphoko told parliament.T...Published: 03 Mar 2017 at 04:13hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Americans feared that Mugabe would be assassinated
The Americans have released damaging claims of who among Zimbabwe's ruling class allegedly directed the Gukurahundi massacres of the early 1980s, in which an estimated 20 000 innocent civilians we...Published: 21 Jan 2017 at 11:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa's dreadful mistake, 6000 workers fired
CAN someone tell me, just who is threatened by the First Lady hitting 50 years of age? Or by her celebrating that age? Or by the fact of taking advantage of that occurrence to fund-raise for charity? ...Published: 25 Jul 2015 at 10:25hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
NGOs come with strings attached
The post- Cold War era has witnessed a proliferation of Non- Governmental Organisations (NGOs) with many divergent goals and objectives. The NGOs have been viewed by political commentators as the cons...Published: 29 May 2015 at 16:09hrs | 3 | by Stewart Murewa
Look East policy a failure - MDC-T
The MDC-T organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe has said the Zanu PF government failure to listen to the voice of reason when the MDC-T advised them that it was not right to dissociate with the int...Published: 19 May 2015 at 06:55hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Tsvangirai's greatest gift to Zimbabwe would be to step down
Ben Freeth says Morgan Tsvangirai's greatest gift to his country would be to step down as the grandfather of the MDC-T.As Zimbabwe slides deeper into economic crisis, despondency and decay, pe...Published: 09 May 2015 at 15:28hrs | | by Ben Freeth
Nathaniel Manheru or George Charamba: you have crossed the red line: Zionist and Gugurahundi genocide is a myth, you say!
Manheru, if you say Gugurahundi genocide is a myth in as much as the Holocaust and genocide that took place in most European countries against the Jews is a myth, then you have crossed the ...Published: 03 Jan 2015 at 05:11hrs | 8 | by Nomazulu Thata
The demise of Robert Mugabe and all his legacy
An older friend of mine once told me how Mugabe proved his intelligence while in prison when he played games with his prison mates. He would be on his own while they would be on the other side helping...Published: 03 Nov 2014 at 20:24hrs | | by Tsolo Dube
Robert Mugabe succession imperils Zimbabwe
MOZAMBIQUE's ruling Frelimo and its presidential candidate, Filipe Nyussi took an early lead in Wednesday's general elections sensing victory, even though the main opposition Renamo has put fierce...Published: 18 Oct 2014 at 21:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
USA created Al-Qaeda and the ISIS terror group
MUCH like Al Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS) is made-in-the-USA, an instrument of terror designed to divide and conquer the oil-rich Middle East and to counter Iran's growing influence in the region. ...Published: 23 Sep 2014 at 08:01hrs | 9 | by Garikai Chengu
Mugabe opens NAM workshop
President Robert Mugabe has inaugurated the 3rd Non- Aligned Movement (NAM) science and technology workshop on minerals processing and beneficiation in Harare.Addressing delegates from 19 NAM ...Published: 11 Sep 2014 at 15:27hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Crimean case, a carbon copy of Kosovo
While the United States of America (USA) and the European Union (EU) connived to impose sanctions on Russian authorities for accepting the March 16, 2014, Crimean referendum results that led to th...Published: 26 Mar 2014 at 12:03hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
How Sadc slammed the door on democracy - Biti
So it thus came as a surprise a few weeks ago when Sadc leaders chose Zimbabwe as the next chair of Sadc. How do you appoint amongst you, the most contested.Zimbabwe had been in the agenda of ...Published: 02 Sep 2013 at 17:00hrs | 2 | by Tendai Biti
Liberating the black African from his victim mentality
We must emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because none but ourselves can free our minds.As we aspire to change the social circumstances of black Africans, I think it is important that w...Published: 07 Mar 2013 at 08:18hrs | | by Vince Musewe
MDC-T must look itself in mirror
SECURITY sector reforms are not the solution to Zimbabwe's political problems. All these reports that are being released week in and week out by a plethora of paid hacks are nothing more than propagan...Published: 12 Jul 2011 at 03:42hrs | | by Dambudzo Mapuranga
NELSON MANDELA: The African Hero Stolen by the West
Over 20 years ago, on February 11, 1990, South Africa’s retired President and Nobel Peace co-laureate, Nelson R. Mandela, left the colonial-apartheid prison of "Victor Verst...Published: 21 Apr 2011 at 10:06hrs | 2 | by Udo W Froese in Johannesburg, South Africa
Libya: Africa and the Victorians - Libya and Zimbabwe
As I write, Libya is burning. It is in the throes of war, more accurately, of a "righteous" aggression. The list of the aggressor nations is as familiar as it is predictable: US, ...Published: 30 Mar 2011 at 05:58hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
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