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Dr. Ralph Mguni: my Mentor, my Teacher
His proud self is still intact. He has never been different at any time and space. We should accept that the Nguni people are known for their high self-esteem are a proud people. In the interview he m...Published: 02 May 2021 at 17:13hrs | 10 | by Nomazulu Thata
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 5 | by Samantha Power
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
MDC demo preparations at an advanced stage
Preparations for the much awaited People's Free Zimbabwe Peaceful March remain on course and are now at an advanced stage.The people's Free Zimbabwe peaceful march will be held on Friday 16 Au...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 17:13hrs | | by Daniel Molokele
Gukurahundi mass graves exhumation intent - is the Matebelalnd Collective accomplices?
History is littered with many heinous crimes committed by man against man all in the name of power, from the Turkish genocide against the Armenians, the Nazi Jewish holocaust, Pol pot madness, the Rwa...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Fikile wa Malikongwa
Mnangagwa copying Cambodia's dictator?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is an ardent follower of Pol Pot a dictator whose Khmer Rouge government led Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, Professor Jonathan Moyo has said. Pot was known for his bl...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 08:13hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mzila reacts to 1893 MHRRM call for Demo against Motlante Commission
It is absurd that in a country with such an ugly human rights violations record since it's independence whose peak was the slaughter of more than 40000 innocent and unarmed civilians in ways that cann...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 10:32hrs | 1 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
The view from up here
Stalin's Chicken Part One: The case of Zimbabwe Just as axiety.org describes Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Jos...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 19:03hrs | 6 | by Peter Muzira
Lessons from the Natural History of Nations
There is certainly no prize for predicting the reaction of the opposition alliance to the outcome of the elections, and of course the constitutional court challenge. After all, we have been made to be...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 12:39hrs | 1 | by Robert Sigauke
UK in Zimbabwe: From tragedy to farce
A poetic cliché by Karl Marx which claims that in the life of nations "history repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce" does not only keep gaining new meanings for all countries but at ...Published: 28 May 2018 at 16:05hrs | 2 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Nightmare of Mugabe and his allies' Matabele atrocities
The first details of a shock report of Zimbabwe's government troops' atrocities in camp Bhalagwe and elsewhere has emerged despite Mugabe's curtain of silence, writes David BeresfordOne of the...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 10:42hrs | 2 | by David Beresford
The Law of 'Diminishing Returns' is sinking Mugabe and his ZANU-PF regime
President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF is at loggerheads with the Law of Diminishing Returns, an economic concept that asserts that after a certain point further investment (or effort) does not incre...Published: 03 Aug 2017 at 19:19hrs | 6 | by Pythias Makonese
Mugabe should be jailed for his murderous crimes
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is now 93-years-old, and one can not help wondering when he will face justice for all the murderous crimes he committed on the people of this country.Have the ...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 07:54hrs | 3 | by Kelvin Kudenga
Mujuru not involved in Gukurahundi operations
A debate is raging as to whether or not the late former Zimbabwean army commander, Solomon Mujuru had a hand in the government's ethnic cleansing campaign in Matabeleland and some parts of the Midland...Published: 05 Apr 2017 at 10:37hrs | 2 | by Thabo Kunene
Has politics incapacitated our scholars' reasoning levels?
I was watching a documentary on the history of the Great Zimbabwe, and other African historical sites - which was probably produced in the 1980s - and was amazed by the magnificent intellectual capaci...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 14:40hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe belongs to God, not the President
Today I want to address the issue of our current leadership on a Christian point of view. What can Zimbabwe and our leaders learn from looking back over the ages at the rise and fall if another to...Published: 04 Mar 2017 at 10:01hrs | | by Tendai Mazenge
Be vocal on Gukurahundi like you are doing on Dzamara, West told
OUTSPOKEN former war veterans leader Jabulani Sibanda has attacked western diplomats accredited to Zimbabwe for failing to condemn the early 1980s mass slaughter of civilians in the country's western ...Published: 12 Jul 2015 at 10:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
If I am Kalanga, so what?
KALANGA is one of the officially recognised languages embedded as an obligation in section 6 of Zimbabwe's constitution. To someone with normal, functional faculties, this would mean those of our citi...Published: 09 May 2015 at 15:41hrs | | by Welshman Ncube
How the people of Mat'land survived four armed groups
JOHANNESBURG - After independence the people of Matabeleland found themselves at the mercy of three hostile armed groups-government sponsored dissidents, Super-Zapu dissidents trained and armed by...Published: 11 Sep 2014 at 13:18hrs | 3 | by Thabo Kunene
How the people of Matabeleland survived four armed groups
JOHANNESBURG- After independence the people of Matabeleland found themselves at the mercy of three hostile armed groups-government sponsored dissidents, Super-Zapu dissidents trained and armed by Sout...Published: 10 Sep 2014 at 15:12hrs | 10 | by Thabo Kunene
Zimbabwe: Where honouring the dead is a criminal offence
Durban - This week thousands of Rwandans filled Kigali stadium to capacity to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 1994 genocide that left 800 000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus dead.The ce...Published: 10 Apr 2014 at 08:16hrs | 3 | by Thabo Kunene
King Mzilikazi Reloaded: A story of how we begin to remember
"NO NO NO I will never say progress is being made....If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches there's no progress..you pull it all out ...Published: 23 Apr 2013 at 06:07hrs | 36 | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
Mugabe: A good candidate for Egyptation
I am still looking and searching for the vocabulary and diction with which to name and describe what I saw in Bhengazi. After what I saw, I believe that God is the people and that the peopl...Published: 01 Mar 2011 at 07:24hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
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