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Decoloniality vs mental re-orientation
PART of the duty and responsibility of today's academics and intellectuals is to find answers to Africa's development challenges.This is because the post-independent African State has done not...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 04:52hrs | 1 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Zimbabwe: Chekhov's middle age monks
From a writer, critic, traveller, doctorI am reading selected letters of Anton Chekhov, the Russian writer, critic, traveller and medical doctor.The letters span a big chunk of his lif...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:03hrs | 3 | by @Jamwanda2 On Saturday
The mountain is high
Back in 1926, America witnessed the clash of two African-African American giants — then they were called Negroes — over the notion of Negro Art.Was Negro Art a separate creative tradition ...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:35hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
Beware of the folly of Trojan rulers!
Government, folly of mankind?Barbara W Tuchman is a prolific writer on politics as read through history. I enjoy her take on her subject.But she is American, western, itself an importa...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 18:07hrs | 1 | by on Saturday
German airline flies into Vic Falls
GERMAN airline, Eurowings Discover, yesterday flew its maiden flight from Frankfurt to Victoria Falls, becoming the first direct passenger flight between Zimbabwe and Europe since Air Zimbabwe discont...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
DJ Sbu converts masses at Hustlers Summit
"PREACH Pastor Sbu", said one of the hustlers who assembled at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair Hall 4 in Bulawayo on Thursday for the Hustlers Summit.DJ Sbu has been addressed with many ...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:17hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean migrants making it big in South Africa
WHEN he made the decision to leave the country and cross the border into South Africa several years ago, his family and his peers tried to dissuade him, telling him he was putting his life in danger u...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 13:07hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe regime's shameless incompetence
As per my usual daily routine, I pray to Jehovah God first, then converse with my wife and get my daily dose of the morning news (both local and international).I could not help being thunderst...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:15hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe regime's shameless incompetence only serves to reinforce colonial stereotypes that Africans just talk but seldom delive
As per my usual daily routine, I pray to Jehovah God as the first thing I do (and, the first Person I talk to), then converse with my wife, and then get my daily dose of the morning news (both local a...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 09:29hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Mgodoyi' is Jonathan Moyo's predicate he used to express disgust!
It is one of Professor Moyo's terms to express anything disgusting him.Umgodoyi is an overly thin malnourished dog whose mouth unendingly oozies slummy saliva, a sign of obvious illness relate...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
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
Africa has no divine duty to heed the West
IT'S quite refreshing that many Africans - both black and white - have refused to submit to Eurocentrism, where all things from the West are viewed in utopian terms in which everything is projected as...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:48hrs | | by Conway Tutani
The DA - MDC unholy Alliance
South Africa goes to elections next month at a time when the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is under siege for taking a decision to redistribute land. President Cyril Ramaphosa has bee...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 06:54hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Off the comfort zone with the Gregarious Chamisa: A View from the rural-dweller
The juicy and chocolate side of the socialite MDC President, Nelson Chamisa, is mainly his off-the-comfort-zone personality. This makes him an extra-ordinary political leader in that facet in Zimbabwe...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 10:15hrs | | by Nhlanhla Moses
The impossibility of abolishing lobola
THIS is the conclusion of a three-part series which discussed the feasibility of doing away with roora or making it optional in customary marriages.The position taken has been that it is impos...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:00hrs | | by Miriam Tose Majome
Donations given to Africa meant to depopulate or stifle population growth
A United Kingdom Charity organisation has claimed that some donations given to African countries were meant to depopulate or stifle population growth.Starlight Global director Shanice Lindsay ...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 17:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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
The rise and fall of Robert Mugabe
Book Review Life and Times of Robert Mugabe (1980-2017): Dream Betrayed Kenneth Mufuka and Cyril Zenda, 2018, Afro-media Publishers, South Carolina, ISBN 9-781513-625959 Reviewed by Brian Maregedze Th...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
An inherited crisis of imagination: A Long Essay concerning the understanding of Zimbabwe - Pt1
If it is a despot you would dethrone, see first his throne erected within you is destroyed lest what you call freedom is the strongest of chains. The Gibranian perception sums the November 201...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 19:02hrs | 2 | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
How relevant is the Zimbabwean history to the youths?
The elections are upon us as the Zimbabwean nation. Some young people sometimes ask; 'are we going to be talking about things of the past again?' Perhaps this is because much talk on elections in Zimb...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 11:40hrs | 3 | by Mokhumi Valela
Constantine Chiwenga bleaches, but why?
We indeed live in a world of post colonial times; one can even add neo-colonial time frame: it means the African mindsets in some cases are still as manipulated as before. The mindset of most Africans...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 13:34hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Welcome to the dark side of Donald Trump
Taking a walk into the world of our imaginations and picturing how our geo-political environment has taken us so far. I have always desired to see a real change in the global political dichotomy and e...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
The Role of the King in Mthwakazi - Mthwakazi Forum with Mzelikahle
There has been a lot of talk about a King in Mthwakazi. In fact in September 2017 we saw Stanley Raphael Khumalo taking the initiative and being crowned king, dubbed King Mzilikazi II. There has ...Published: 29 Dec 2017 at 10:46hrs | 1 | by Kernan Mzelikahle
Mugabe's cabinet reshuffle paves way for succession plan
SYNOPSIS: Journalist Violet Gonda interviews veteran political analyst Ibbo Mandaza on President Robert Mugabe's recent cabinet appointments and the infighting within...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:43hrs | | by Violet Gonda
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
Decolonising travelling in Africa
As we conclude our Africa Week celebrations, the biggest question in my mind is when and how will travel in the continent be decolonised?The phrase on every speaker's lips at the Africa Travel...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 16:59hrs | | by Mantombi Makhubele
Jonathan Moyo stop dabbling in Zanu-PF succession politics
In history and to the outsider, Zimbabwe has always been a fabulous illusion. An Ophir. An El Dorado, a home to the Queen of Sheba. If the wishes of early European "pathfinders" were horses, Zimbabwe ...Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Do we need white supervision and tutelage?
Economic power in South Africa still resides in the hands of those who benefited from apartheid, in white hands, Eskom CEO Brian Molefe explains in a speech he made at a TNA Business briefing on Wedne...Published: 30 Nov 2016 at 12:51hrs | | by Brian Molefe
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
Coltart: (Hi)story and our story as Africans
As I sit down to write this piece, it is February 18, 1978, and David Coltart has just taken off for South Africa, to start his university studies at UCT, the University of Cape Town. He leaves behind...Published: 07 May 2016 at 20:11hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Dzamara worth more than the others who have disappeared or killed
CHIKUKUVATAVATA. It used to be a game we played in our youthful, colonial days. Mother asks you and your siblings to catch a cock or hen for dinner, most probably because sekuru in the sense of your m...Published: 18 Jul 2015 at 13:24hrs | 26 | 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
The trouble of Educating Robert Mugabe's Assassin
In recent days certain bold but infantile statements have been made that have caused some of us to reflect seriously on the problem of political silliness and historical idiocy in Zimbabwe. On the s...Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 21:49hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Robert Mugabe: An African Head of State and the State of an African Head
The political personality and historical project of Robert Mugabe is bound to arrest the attention of thinkers and writers for a long time to come. The Zimbabwean President has attracted extreme r...Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 10:27hrs | 2 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Where would Jesus go for worship?
I DID promise you dear reader that this week we would like to venture into the realm that is not so commonly discussed in a positive manner till recently. I am sure you are getting through the major h...Published: 29 Jun 2014 at 09:14hrs | | by Rev Paul Bayethe Damasane
Zimbabwe to review schools curricula
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education says it is reviewing the schools curricula, with a bias on the country's history and aspirations to uphold national values from early childhood developm...Published: 26 Mar 2014 at 15:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Albert Nyathi to collaborate with Iyasa
Dub poet Albert Nyathi and Iyasa have teamed up to create a song titled What's Up that focuses on the negative effects of social media.Iyasa director Innocent Nkululeko Dube told the Daily Ne...Published: 17 Feb 2014 at 17:16hrs | 1 | by Arts reporter
Let us make ZIM ASSET work
The Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (ZIM ASSET) must not be one of those nice cover policy documents to gather dust in the bookshelves.Government must live up to ...Published: 29 Nov 2013 at 09:53hrs | | by Dr Sikhanyiso Duke Ndlovu
'We can't think like Africans,' says Zuma
South African President Jacob Zuma torched a diplomatic storm on Monday over his comments urging South Africans not to think like Africans in Africa, with critics saying such talk fed xenophobia that ...Published: 23 Oct 2013 at 04:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
'If I was Morgan Tsvangirai,' says Manheru
THE hardest challenge for any leader is dealing with the aftermath of defeat. Leadership qualities are taxed to the limit in an environment of increasing loneliness and encroaching indigence. The aur...Published: 13 Oct 2013 at 17:49hrs | 19 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Counting Lobengula's looted head
Just under two days ago I held a fascinating discussion with Baffour Ankomah, the British-based, Ghanaian-born Editor of the world-read New African magazine. Well known for his obdurately pro-Mugabe ...Published: 08 Sep 2013 at 08:14hrs | 6 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Who is Luthuli Dlamini, the Zimbabwean on SA's Generations?
"Acting may be a career, but the performance that counts is the one you give on the stage called life"As an actor I live my life to portray those of others, but every single role I play requi...Published: 26 Jun 2013 at 16:12hrs | 23 | by Luthuli Dlamini
Only a foolish fly follows a corpse into the grave
In our African traditional custom we have a saying that "it is only a foolish fly that follows a corpse into the grave."Everybody is aware of what will befall such a fly that dares to follow a...Published: 18 May 2013 at 04:30hrs | | by Bowden B.C. Mbanje and Darlington N. Mahuku
Mutambara tells chiefs to preserve the country's history
Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara says traditional leaders should help in the preservation of the country's history for the benefit of future generations.Professor Mutambara was addressin...Published: 09 Mar 2012 at 10:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is a world of tourist wonder!
...Published: 28 Sep 2011 at 12:47hrs | | by Hilton Munendoro
Propaganda, media, regime change, - a reality check
ADOLF Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels declared: "If you have to use a lie to propagate your cause, you would have to repeat it more often than possible and use the established mainstream ...Published: 21 Aug 2011 at 06:54hrs | | by Udo W. Froese
Why MDC formations are a security threat
A political threat is a system that aims at misinformation and broadcasting of negative propaganda done by individuals, political groups and media houses.The threat comes from the fact that pe...Published: 28 Jul 2011 at 11:34hrs | | by Panganai Kahuni
All lasting constitutions secure the majority
When imperialism becomes desperate, its stooges go hysterical and irrational.Just in case the desperation of the imperialists is in doubt, it helps to look at the obvious signs:British Pri...Published: 24 Jul 2011 at 06:09hrs | | by Tafataona Mahoso
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