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Zimbabwe-born star teams up with Morgan Freeman on new Muhammad Ali TV series
A scripted eight-part series about boxing icon Muhammad Ali, titled Excellence: 8 Fights is currently in the works, reported Deadline. English-Zimbabwean actor Regé-Jean Page and American artist Morg...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai remembered five years on
February 14, 2023 marked five years since late Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai succumbed to colon cancer.He was 65.Tsvangirai left the main opposition MDC...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 17:36hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Matabeles not Zimbabweans: the sooner Zimbabweans accept this glaring fact the better
Matabeles are not Zimbabweans, they have never been and will never be Zimbabweans. On the same breath, Matabeleland is not Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe is not Matabeleland. This should sink into the ...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 11:17hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Sisulu tko Ronald Lamola in an open letter
I ask you, why are some so irritated with my opinion piece? Until all daggers, some agonizingly blunt, are drawn, and some have already assumed my head must go to the guillotine in the narrowness of m...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 17:52hrs | 1 | by Lindiwe Sisulu.
Sikhala's doctrine before his arrest
EDITOR,BEFORE the fateful August 21, which heralded the end of Job "Saro Wiwa" Sikhala's revolutionary campaign against corruption outside the iron bars of prison, he had a few days befo...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 20:37hrs | 2 | by Charles M. Mutama
Violence is ingrained in MDC-Alliance’s DNA
THERE is consensus among those who read Zimbabwe's political landscape correctly that the country has exhibited conspicuous signs of dynamism under the visionary leadership of President Emmerson Mnaga...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Why should we remember Joshua Nkomo
IN this two-part series, the Zimbabwe Independent reproduces the 2019 Annual Joshua Nkomo Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni, organised by Joshua Nkomo Legacy Foundation ...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:52hrs | 2 | by Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Zimbabwe opposition and lost opportunities
Election 2018 was largely considered a landmark event for the different meanings and opportunities that were attached to it, particularly for the new faces in the presidential race, Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
A call for the immediate removal of all forms of sanctions against Zimbabwe
A lot of people, some of them close family members and even respected business friends and colleagues, have openly wondered whether or not I have changed my brand of politics. In certain hostile p...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 18:33hrs | 1 | by Obert Gutu
Motsepe's money trail, Botswana security company accounts frozen
The Botswana Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA) has frozen Avante Security Services bank accounts in Gaborone on suspicions that the company was used by South African businesswoman Bridgette Motsepe ...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 08:39hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Patrice Motsepe's sister detained in Zimbabwe
Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi's chief financier Bridget Motsepe, Tati East Member of Parliament Samson Guma Moyo and Prevailing Securities MD Shaduff Baitse were Saturday detained briefly and interrogated by...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 08:27hrs | 38 | by Staff reporter
Defeating George Soros' agenda in Zimbabwe
It is no secret that after the convincing defeat of the MDC Alliance in Zimbabwe's recent inclusive elections, US-EU imperialism was forced to undergo a brief period of not only recuperation, a much n...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:45hrs | 5 | by Obi Egbuna Jr
Chamisa speaks on power grab
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa, has spoken at the Oxford Union about his contentious rise to the MDC presidency.The 40-year-old opposition leader spoke to students about th...Published: 09 May 2018 at 13:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to speak at Oxford Union
The Oxford Union, the most prestigious student debating organisation in the United Kingdom whose membership is drawn primarily from the University of Oxford, will be hosting MDC Alliance presidential ...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 13:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A disgrace to the Black race
As Black History Month closes, and African Americans in the United States (US) have celebrated and reflected on their role in that nation's shaping, it would be everyone's hope that they also took a g...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 07:55hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mugabe falls on his own sword
The world's oldest leader - Robert Gabriel Mugabe - threw in the towel late yesterday afternoon, putting an end to a chequered political history by any standards, one that started when he ...Published: 22 Nov 2017 at 09:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
They called me Tafiranyika. Now, they call this Zimbabwe?
They called me Tafiranyika. My grandfather died the day I was born. They called me Tafiranyika. Sekuru Moses was on the liberation war front when I was born. They called me Tafiranyika. Big and menaci...Published: 02 Sep 2017 at 07:40hrs | 3 | by Tafi Mhaka
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 | 8 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Generation 40 young but old Zanu-PF
Even after purging Mujuru and her colleagues, factionalism remains rife within Zanu PF. Mugabe knows that his leadership can only be secure when there is division and infighting in Zanu PF. In 2013, t...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 15:55hrs | | by Whitlaw Mugwiji
Time for the youth to make noise
As a black man, if there is nothing you are prepared to risk your life for, then you are a coward and unworthy of our love and care. Robert Mugabe sacrificed his life and spent 11 years in prison for ...Published: 01 Apr 2017 at 09:24hrs | | by Tendai Mazenge
Digesting Mugabe's opinion of Trump
Because President Mugabe's birthday happens to be the same day Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, Mother Africa's children at home and abroad have always considered this day...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 05:44hrs | 1 | by Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye
Mugabe might be a bad leader, but every Zimbabwean is culpable for allowing his misrule
It is a no contest that Robert Mugabe is a horrendous leader. He has overseen 36 years of utter misrule. But more than Mugabe, we must equally blame every Zimbabwean ...Published: 23 Oct 2016 at 06:30hrs | | by Whitlaw Mugwiji
Open letter to Black Americans: African lives matter too
Black Lives Matter must be more than just a slogan or a preserve of African Americans being shot by the American police force. It must be all encompassing for black people everywhere across the globe....Published: 28 Sep 2016 at 08:33hrs | 4 | by Whitlaw Tanyanyiwa Mugwiji
Open letter to Black Americans: African lives matter too
Black Lives Matter must be more than just a slogan or a preserve of African Americans being shot by the American police force. It must be all encompassing for black people everywhere across the globe....Published: 27 Sep 2016 at 20:15hrs | | by Whitlaw Tanyanyiwa Mugwiji
Evan Mawarire where are you?
"Leadership to me, is really about being in a position to face the same risk and take the same bold steps that you expect those who choose to follow you to mirror"I was watching a video on...Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 16:47hrs | 1 | by Vince Musewe
Regime change Agent Code words
Because the US-EU imperialist media apparatus prematurely and arrogantly proclaimed themselves victors of what was labelled in political circles as the Cold War, this led our former colonisers and ens...Published: 20 May 2016 at 06:25hrs | 2 | by Obi Egbuna Jr Simunye
How does Mugabe's murder of 30 000 'embody African fighting spirit'
There is no one blinder than one who refuses to see! Apologists, bootlickers and sycophants are an obnoxious group of those who not only refuse to see the truth but, worse still, they "s...Published: 29 Apr 2016 at 17:15hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe embodies African fighting spirit
For many Africans at home and abroad, when President Mugabe presented not only Zimbabwe, but all of Mother Africa's case before the United Nations last Thursday concerning Sustainable Development Goal...Published: 29 Apr 2016 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Obi Egbuna Jr Simunye
Remembering Nkrumah's overthrow, defending Zimbabwe
This means when the Herbert Chitepo Ideological Institute begins to function in Zimbabwe, President Mugabe and ZANU-PF will ensure that the youth do not overindulge in theory, but emerge from that phy...Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 05:31hrs | | by Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye
Zimbabwe is no island
Zimbabwe is no island. Quite an obvious statement, but what does it really mean. Let me explain. I'm a descendant of the Bantu people that have inha...Published: 09 Jan 2015 at 07:29hrs | | by Sons of Joshua
Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel
Dear revisionists, Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel. Over the next few days you will try so, so hard to make him something he was not, and you will fail. You will try to smooth him, to san...Published: 11 Dec 2013 at 17:20hrs | | by okwang.com
Mandela was never a revolutionary, always a radical
Critics trying to prove or disprove Mandela's sanctity failed to grasp that he was simply a political leader guiding his country through transitionA fitting way to commemorate Nelson Mandela...Published: 08 Dec 2013 at 04:59hrs | 1 | by Gary Younge I theguardian.com
Zimsec grade 7 Ndebele 2013 paper resemble apartheid Bantu education
I still remember vividly my first supervision meeting with Headmaster, the late Mr Sebata as a new very young teacher at JZ Moyo High School in West Nicholson. It was always one of those hastil...Published: 17 Oct 2013 at 04:45hrs | 4 | by Titshabona Malaba Ncube
Is Obama truly pro-black?
The day Barack Obama stood on that podium in 2009 accepting the 44th Presidential nomination of the United States of America, how many Africans within the international community that day would h...Published: 27 Sep 2013 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Tsungai Chipato
ZAPU UK Elections Committee Ends Its Work
I send my greetings to you all comrades, leaders, members, friends and associates of ZAPU. I would have loved to be in attendance to witness this momentous occasion in the aftermath of the Zimbabwe G...Published: 02 Sep 2013 at 16:52hrs | 2 | by Mlamlankunzi Nkomo
The murderous western touch
So now Muammar Gaddafi has died; apparently after being incapacitated by the fire power of US drones and French gunship bombers, and left to face a very primitively ruthless death at the hands of the ...Published: 27 Oct 2011 at 05:24hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Protestors in Harlem Rail Against Zimbabwe Sanctions and Libya Bombing
Some thousands of people, many from New York City's African-American community, gathered on Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem on Aug. 13 to protest the U.S./NATO bombing campaign against the Libyan peopl...Published: 20 Aug 2011 at 05:51hrs | 5 | by .
Osama bin Laden's successor likely to be Ayman al-Zawahri
Ayman al-Zawahri, Egyptian-born doctor and surgeon is al Qaeda's second-in-command expected to succeed Osama bin Laden following his killing in a fire-fight with US forces in Pakistan. Za...Published: 02 May 2011 at 04:06hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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