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Even Ian Smith's son never behaved as if the country belonged to his father

Certain truths today should make us wonder whether we deserve to proudly call ourselves independent.There is a disturbing culture that has crept into our politics - the belief that once a man captures state power, his family automatically …

Published: 09 Sep 2025 at 23:07hrs | 610 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Ian Khama compares Zimbabwe to colonial Rhodesia

Former Botswana president Ian Khama launched a scathing critique of Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu PF and government leadership during the launch of opposition politician Job Sikhala's book, Footprints in the Chains: The Life Story of Job Sikhala,…

Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 11:26hrs | 828 | by Staff reporter

Electricity availability in Zimbabwe is now worse than Rhodesia in the 1940s

The irony of Zimbabwe having worse electricity availability today than Rhodesia in the 1940s is a stark and painful reminder of how far we have regressed as a nation. For Zimbabweans who have endured nearly 45 years of independence, this r…

Published: 06 Jan 2025 at 12:10hrs | 1143 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Why Zimbabweans must be free to speak about Rhodesia

In the past day, Zimbabwe's Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Nick Mangwana, and ZANU-PF Chief Whip Pupurai Togarepi have called for legislation to criminalize what they termed the "romanticization of Rhodesia." This call…

Published: 30 Dec 2024 at 13:06hrs | 646 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Rhodesians invested in Rhodesia, Zimbabweans are investing Abroad

Zimbabweans/Rhodesians are debating across social media platforms, focusing on the contrasting legacies of the Rhodesian and Zimbabwean governments and how they have emerged as a focal point of discussion. While both administrations faced …

Published: 30 Dec 2024 at 11:54hrs | 823 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi

The uncanny parallels between Zanu-PF and the Rhodesian Front

THE white Rhodesian regime by all accounts waged a highly effective counter-insurgency war against the guerilla forces.Its successes were across the military and intelligence spheres.The kill ratio throughout the war was overwhelmingly in …

Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 07:15hrs | 561 | by Rigid Kondongwe

Towards a Lasting Compromise: Bridging the State-Civil Society Chasm in Zimbabwe

Historically, State-civil society relations in Zimbabwe have been characterized by adversarial dynamics. The recent disputes over the PVO Amendment Bill are a manifestation of a toxic relationship between the State and civil society and so…

Published: 17 Jun 2024 at 20:25hrs | 9 | by Innocent Mpoki

Colourful place names of Rhodesia and their origin

THE TRACING of place names in a country in Africa can be both fascinating and frustrating.  One must know â€“ or quickly learn â€“ something about history, about geography and the origins of words and their meanings â€“ in different d…

Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 17:59hrs | 138 | by Phillippa Berlyn with some amendments by Tony Tanser

I'm grateful to have been born and bred in Rhodesia!

Ever since I started writing current affairs and social justice newspaper articles in 1989, at the age of 16 years, this is probably the most painful, frank and heartfelt piece I have ever authored.It comes from a place of deep anguish, re…

Published: 19 May 2023 at 14:04hrs | 23 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Where are these fruits of independence Zimbabweans are supposed to be enjoying?

The next time I hear a senior government official, or some sycophantic ruling ZANU-PF supporter tell us about 'enjoying the fruits of independence', in all likelihood, I will scream!I find nothing more infuriating than coming across those …

Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 19:28hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

ZANU PF takes Zimbabwe 360Â° back to Rhodesia - country ripe for new wave of nationalism and liberation struggle!

There is a popular saying, "nothing under the sun is completely new" - as, with the planets, solar systems, galaxies, and the universe, everything simply goes round and round in circles, and repeating itself over and over again. In fact, h…

Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 10:04hrs | 4 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Was Rhodesia safer for civilian activists than under a brutal blood-thirsty Zimbabwe regime?

When I was a little boy, we loved listening to "Chimurenga", or liberation struggle songs, that our gallant Zimbabwean musicians belted out, as a way of emboldening and encouraging the population to bravely stand up against colonial rule.A…

Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 07:40hrs | 16 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Zimbabwe has become replica of Rhodesia

THE birth of Zimbabwe and many other African States came as a result of violent confrontations.Negotiations like the ones at Lancaster House Conference took place after a violent confrontation between the guerilla fighters and white suprem…

Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:46hrs | 5 | by Dadirai Nguva

Sanctions: The unfair comparison between Zimbabwe and Rhodesia

MANY Zimbabweans often bring up the comparison between Rhodesian and Zimbabwean sanctions to drive the narrative that Rhodesia had more stringent sanctions that they managed better than Zimbabwe is managing under ZDERA, EO13469, EU, IEEPA …

Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:35hrs | 10 | by Rutendo Bereza Matinyarare

Mzila-Ndlovu's unit used a strela heat-seeking missile to shoot down a Rhodesian troop carrier

Moses Mzila-Ndlovu relates how his unit used a strela heat-seeking missile to shoot down a Rhodesian troop carrier returning from the attack on Mkushi womenâ€™s camp. They were stationed near Mwembeshi and were unaware of the attack which …

Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 09:19hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Veteran Freedom Fighter who escaped the Rhodesian hangman's noose

The former Zanu-PF Member of Parliament for Nkayi Constituency who served between 1995 and 2000 belongs to the first group of freedom fighters that was trained in the People's Republic of China. The group had decorated fighters such as Luk…

Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 08:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

The other side of Rhodesiaâ€™s education system

One of, if not the only critical aspect of the Rhodesian educational system was that it was inspired with skills. Of course, there is tons of empirical evidence on the vices of institutionalised racial, political, social and economic segre…

Published: 24 May 2019 at 15:39hrs | 123 | by Rejoice Ngwenya

Rhodesian chemical-biological war crimes

As Zimbabwe celebrates its 39th year of Independence, as Africans we have either chosen to ignore or have been brainwashed to forget the terrible things white Rhodesians did to our own freedom fighters in the 16-year protracted armed war o…

Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 08:51hrs | 7 | by Sifelani Tsiko

Rhodesia super than Zimbabwe?

The  urban Idiot is a very complex idiot. Just a few months back the urban idiot was celebrating the fall of Robert Gabriel Mugabe as president of Zimbabwe, but today the urban idiot is all over social media expressing how they miss t…

Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 13:48hrs | 7 | by Cont Mhlanga

Zanu-PF leaders trapped in Rhodesia

Growing up back then, this Village Idiot remembers well two Rhodesian slogans; â€˜Rhodesia will never Die and Rhodesia is Super'. Looking at it today this remains true to the core. The Urban Idiot of today remains trapped in Rhodesian syst…

Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 13:33hrs | 7 | by Cont Mhlanga - Village idiot

Zimbabwe Rhodesia Parliament Deputy Speaker dies

THE former Deputy Speaker of the Zimbabwe Rhodesia Parliament (1979/1980), Mr Walter Nqabeni Mthimkhulu, has died. He was 78.Mr Mthimkhulu died in the United Kingdom on July 7 and will be buried on Wednesday next week in that country.Famil…

Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 12:30hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Coltart apologise for his role as a police officer with the BSAP

STATEMENT BY DAVID COLTART ON RHODESIAN ATROCITIES, HIS TIME IN THE BSAP AND AN APOLOGY FOR HIS ROLE IN SUSTAINING AN UNJUST SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT WHICH DISCRIMINATED AGAINST PEOPLE OF COLOURThis week I have been the subject of a sustained …

Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 15:03hrs | 1712 | by Senator David Coltart

Rhodesians hit Angola

TODAY we bring to a close the interview with Somandla Dube pseudo name Richard Machikito Mguni who survived the 26 February 1979 bombing of a Zipra Camp in Boma near Luso, in Angola.In his memoirs a Rhodesian Air Force officer, Preller Gel…

Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 11:57hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter

Mugabe's legacy: A case of inherited oppression

The legacy of colonialism in Africa has largely affected the idea and nature of the post-colonial State. It is in the wake of decolonisation (with all its attendant meanings) that discourses of Negritude, Pan-Africanism, Afropolitanism, Ma…

Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 13:42hrs | 561 | by Patson Dzamara

From white to black Rhodesia: A case of inherited oppression

The legacy of colonialism in Africa has largely affected the idea and nature of the post-colonial state. It is in the wake of decolonization (with all its attendant meanings) that discourses of Negritude, Pan-Africanism, Afropolitanism, Ma…

Published: 18 Jul 2017 at 16:50hrs | 28 | by Patson Dzamara

How Rhodesia ended tribes

The year 1970 saw the birth of a publication titled "The Passing of Tribal Man in Africa". Edited by a Canadian academic, the late Peter C. W. Gutkind, the publication challenged entrenched Anglo-Saxon ideas which had congealed into a fash…

Published: 17 Jun 2017 at 10:03hrs | 9 | by Nathaniel Manheru

The Ian Smith myth and other fallacies

There are many fallacies associated with the history of Zimbabwe. Let's start with one of the oldest.Rhodesia was not built on an empty veld. The fallacy that the land was empty is just that: a fallacy. Probably a quarter of a million Ndeb…

Published: 15 May 2017 at 06:53hrs | 7 | by Simon Massey

Trump's secret Rhodesian connection

A CASUAL reader of history may find it very remote to connect the historical dots between US President Donald Trump's "America First" mantra with a similar slogan popularised in the then Rhodesia.While Trump's "America First" maxim plays i…

Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 05:48hrs | 8 | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire

Trump's 'America first' pledge has echoes of Rhodesia's racist white nationalists

Donald Trump's bleak inauguration speech has attracted attention for, among other things, employing the phrase "America first".The term was popularised by the famed aviator Charles Lindbergh and is associated with anti-Semitic and Nazi sym…

Published: 31 Jan 2017 at 10:40hrs | 7 | by Brooks Marmon, PhD Student

Zimbabwe: A history in retrospect and precision

1980 was a definitive year in which Zimbabweans voted and gained independence after years of traumatic experiences under the white settler Government that maintained segregation and separate development in which blacks were the underdogs, …

Published: 19 Dec 2016 at 08:33hrs | 398 | by Nhlanhla Dube

Zimbabwe is not the same with Rhodesia

British ambassador to Zimbabwe, Catriona Laing has no agenda when she says Zimbabwe is not off the hook. She was saying the obvious thing as she repeated this at the SAPES meeting held recently.Comparing Zimbabwe with Rhodesia is day dream…

Published: 04 Aug 2016 at 15:02hrs | 5 | by Stewart Murewa

Zimbabwe is not the same with Rhodesia

Comparing Zimbabwe with Rhodesia is day dreaming and these people are living in the world of fantasy; the world of make belief. These people need to be reminded that this is a unique country founded on the principles of freedom and emancip…

Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 14:40hrs | 5 | by Stewart Murewa

'Mugabe's Zimbabwe same as Smith's Rhodesia'

FORMER Education minister David Coltart has claimed that the title of his recently-published book, The Struggle Continues . . . 50 Years of Tyranny, had offended remnants of the Rhodesian era and Zanu-PF acolytes after he described both re…

Published: 01 Jul 2016 at 11:15hrs | 1904 | by Staff reporter

Fierce contact with the Rhodesian forces

IN our last week's Lest We Forget Column we were talking to former Zipra Deputy Commander of the Northern Front which stretched from Bulilima up to Nyamapanda Border Post Nicholas Gibson Nkomo whose pseudo name was Gilbert Khumalo. Last we…

Published: 15 May 2016 at 07:54hrs | 19 | by Staff write

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 experiences and emotions during that war a…

Published: 30 Mar 2016 at 12:07hrs | 75 | by Dean McCleland

Why would an American white supremacist be fond of Rhodesia?

After the alleged gunman in the racially motivated terrorist attack on a historic black church in Charleston, S.C, was identified today, a picture was found of him wearing a jacket with two defunct national flag patches: Those of apartheid…

Published: 19 Jun 2015 at 19:59hrs | 10 | by Dan Murphy, csmonitor.com

Tsvangirai criticised over Rhodesia remarks

MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday received a barrage of criticism from furious Zimbabweans for saying he missed Rhodesian rule that enabled him to get drunk for a dollar or one Rhodesian pound, the Herald reported.The embattled M…

Published: 12 Jul 2014 at 08:12hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter

When Rhodesia coils through lasting myths

TODAY is April 14, a mere four days away from yet another 18th April, the day we commemorate our birthday as an independent, sovereign nation.The year for that momentous event was of course 1980, a year that, read against the pain of a lon…

Published: 14 Apr 2012 at 14:24hrs | 13 | by Nathaniel Manheru

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