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Zanu-PF UK seeks hero status for John Takaendesa Ushe
The Zanu-PF District in the United Kingdom has formally requested hero status for the late John Takaendesa Ushe, who passed away in London on May 6 following a period of illness.Ushe is widely...Published: 16 May 2025 at 09:58hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
President William Ruto's poor and misguided politics! He lied to the voters
We still have voices in Africa that spell it out: That one voice comes from Ghana: Kwesi Prett Jr. does not mince words: His politics is eloquent, he understands African politics. Without fear or favo...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 21:11hrs | 28 | by Nomazulu Thata
Incompetent Western puppet faking political bravery
There is a sequence that can be employed to identify CCC leader Nelson Chamisa as a snollygoster!A snollygoster is a political candidate, usually willing to be an instrument of another country...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:41hrs | 12 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Invasion of Ukraine was inevitable
DEVELOPING the future of knowledge involves understanding the "relationship between what we know and what will happen, for the purpose of improving both, for everyone".This endeavour demands a...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:29hrs | 3 | by Arthur G.O. Mutambara
The Invasion of Ukraine was Inevitable: Understanding Russian Concerns and the Folly of Western Diplomacy
Developing the future of knowledge involves understanding the ‘relationship between what we know and what will happen, for the purpose of improving both, for everyone'.This endeavour demands...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:33hrs | 2 | by Arthur G.O Mutambara
Constitutional crisis and tsvimbo
By the time you read this letter, dear Fabian (Mabaya), I will be in the land of the free and the brave, and safe from the shenanigans of my beloved Zimbabwe. I have examined the self-made crisis crea...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:36hrs | 18 | by Ken Mufuka
Birthday greetings, Zimbabwe
Like yesterday, I remember the day that the late former Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith declared independence from Britain.I was driving down what was North Avenue in Salisbury (now Harare)...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross
Rhodesia was 'successful' because essentially it was a province of SA
This week, I am going to start by doing something that we journalists don't normally do. Often we think our duty is to criticise or point out wrongdoing but never to praise even when praise is due. Bu...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 09:26hrs | 1 | by Baffour Ankomah
Forcing countries to pay debt in currency it denies them - that's the US!
ONE thing for sure is that Zimbabwe is not short of real original thinking to counter the West's capture of some Zimbabwean minds.Because of donor funding, too many politicians (naturally more...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:02hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Chamisa hoped to tap into the hugely popular Operation Restore Legacy
One false argument which is peddled by the opposition and foreign interests mostly is that nothing has changed in Zimbabwe since November 2017 when the popular Operation Restore Legacy happened. ...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by George Charamba
Zimbabwe's economic recovery plan (Zim Plan)
Stagflation is caused by the simultaneous occurrence of economic stagnation and inflation. This state of economic affairs within a country is characterised by the twin evils of economics, that is to s...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 18:35hrs | 4 | by Colls Ndlovu, economist
British have cut ED adrift, has he even Smith's common sense to admit 'game is up!'
South Africa's then president F W de Klerk and the man who would succeed him, Nelson Mandela, were co-recipients of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.Nelson Mandela's citation for the prize was easil...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 00:30hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Zanu-PF will respect election outcome
Zanu-PF yesterday assured the African Union Election Observer Mission that it will respect election results for the July 30 harmonised elections regardless of the outcome as it is guided by the Consti...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
American meddling must be resisted
THE word "coon" is short for raccoon; - and in the old American South was (and, if we are honest, is) used as an insulting and contemptuous term for a black person.It is equivalent to "nigger"...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Tinomudaishe Chinyoka
The dilemma facing Zimbabwe
A new year has dawned and I think all Zimbabweans suffered over this past festive season from a hangover caused by the unscheduled departure of Robert Mugabe from the presidency.Former preside...Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross, economic analyst
Cold War aided Mugabe's rise
Kissinger needed a win. And he thought he could ring up a cheap one in Angola where three independence movements were vying for power in the wake of Portugal's decision to decolonize. Kissinger master...Published: 30 Nov 2017 at 05:49hrs | 106 | by Professor Nancy Mitchell
Mandela mocked Mugabe and Mugabe also mocked Mandela
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's verbal barbs on Nelson Mandela have a historical context, which both men helped accentuate.South Africa's first majority and black President Nelson Mandela...Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 12:05hrs | 2 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
ANC the toddler
AM I wrong? I have always thought the goal of opposition is to govern? And I haven't said the goal is to lead. To govern. You can lead anything, at any level, including leading a village co-operative....Published: 03 Jun 2017 at 11:08hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mugabe dismisses western profiling
PRESIDENT Mugabe has dismissed assertions that Zimbabwe is a fragile state, stressing that those that labelled it so were misguided and ill-informed about the state of development in the country....Published: 05 May 2017 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Grace Mugabe fell out with Sandi Moyo, Mahoka
For embattled Bulawayo provincial affairs minister Eunice Sandi Moyo and controversial Hurungwe East Member of Parliament Sarah Mahoka, American foreign policy guru Henry Kissinger's famous statem...Published: 26 Mar 2017 at 10:05hrs | 2 | by Everson Mushava
'Stop Zim become African North Korea,' cries MP Cross - cried wolf once too often
History has the habit of repeating itself."The (USA) Secretary of State outlined a plan for a transition to majority rule and said that he had the support of African leaders for the plan. Smit...Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 21:15hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
JZ Moyo's death: seeking the identity of interests behind the heinous act
When the Pearce Commission of 1972 was impending, nationalists realised the need to appoint people to rally opinion against the proposed constitutional package. For example, nationalists in Gonaku...Published: 05 Feb 2017 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mudede digs in
The University of Zimbabwe Creative Writing Press Club recently hosted Tobaiwa Mudede (Registrar-General of Zimbabwe) and Richard Hondo who delivered a 3-hour presentation on their recently polemical ...Published: 05 Feb 2017 at 07:13hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Brig Muchemwa recounts horror at Chimoio
BORN in Mhondoro, Ngezi in 1945 in a family of four girls and three boys, the late national hero Retired Brigadier General Felix Muchemwa started his education at Nehanda Primary School, then went to ...Published: 19 Jun 2016 at 12:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Rhodesia: The Great Betrayal
For just over three months I stayed at the Hilton Hotel while I worked in Pietermaritzburg recently. Staying there also was an ex-Rhodesian of roughly my age. This is his story in his words of his exp...Published: 30 Mar 2016 at 12:07hrs | 65 | by Dean McCleland
Propaganda and the pursuit of hegemonic goals - The Myanmar & Zimbabwe experience
February 29, 2016Much has been written about how much the so-called international community expected the new South Africa born in 1994 to lead the campaign for respect of human rights especially i...Published: 29 Feb 2016 at 13:36hrs | 1 | by Thabo Mbeki
Tobaiwa Mudede responds to birth control drugs critics
Our presentation to the Parliamentary Portfolio committee on Women's Affairs, Gender and Community Development on July 7 2015 triggered a myriad of comments. We have received an overwhelming number o...Published: 25 Jul 2015 at 09:17hrs | 1 | by Tobaiwa T Mudede and Richard Hondo
Mudede steps up bizarre campaign
Tobaiwa Mudede Registrar General has warned women against using modern birth control methods, claiming they caused the birth of children with several deformities, large heads as well as obesity i...Published: 08 Jul 2015 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi: How Zimbabwe assisted apartheid South Africa
IN the aftermath of Zanu PF founder and former minister Enos Nkala's death, debate has been raging about his role in Zimbabwe's political history, particularly the liberation struggle, as well as his ...Published: 06 Sep 2013 at 06:45hrs | | by Scarnecchia
The 1979 Rhodesian Viscount shooting's place in history
By now it should have become obvious to any discerning mind that many Westerners who are said to be 'concerned' about the Zimbabwean crisis are in reality pursuing a racial and therefore selfish agend...Published: 27 Feb 2013 at 07:32hrs | 5 | by Mkwati Zuze
Dr Joshua Nkomo (1917-1999): Who exactly was He
Credit due to Diana Mitchell and Robert Cary for reproduction of historical material, from their book Who's Who: African Nationalist Leaders in Rho...Published: 29 Jun 2012 at 19:02hrs | 38 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo
Mugabe: The history we have
One stubborn day in April, the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twelve, President Mugabe stolidly walked back to Harare, clearly defying Press and prophecy.The week before had been abuzz with...Published: 28 Apr 2012 at 08:54hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
A triangle of success and prosperity
The global financial crisis wreaked havoc across the globe, but two countries avoided the worst of global meltdown, partly thanks to their strong links with China. In fact, when US Federal Reserve Cha...Published: 17 Jan 2012 at 19:08hrs | | by CD
Nobel Peace Prize Award: 1901-Present
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the person "who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and prom...Published: 04 Oct 2011 at 12:16hrs | | by Ryan Williams
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 | 1 | by Tafataona Mahoso
Thwarting independent nationalism
IT is not archaic reasoning and neither is it "Cold War rhetoric" to note that the real enemy of the United States and its Western allies has long been independent nationalism, particularly when it t...Published: 14 Jul 2011 at 03:32hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
US obsession with Zimbabwe strange
There is something strange, and particularly evil about the United States of America's obsession with Zimbabwe. It is no doubt based on racism and an enduring dislike of the self-determination of bla...Published: 01 Jul 2011 at 04:53hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Catastrophe: what went wrong in Zimbabwe!
At midnight on 17-18 April 1980 as the flag of independent Zimbabwe was raised for the first time, Tanzania's President, Julius Nyerere, told the new Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, that he had inherit...Published: 01 Jul 2011 at 04:34hrs | 1 | by Sir Richard Bourne
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