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Cecil John Rhodes Estates Act

This week we do it a little differently and take a brief history course into the life and legal legacy of Cecil John Rhodes, whose name the country was once named after.A man, who has a whole Act of Parliament dedicated to his will and leg…

Published: 07 Nov 2025 at 07:28hrs | | by Miriam Tose Majome

Zimbabwe's cycle of betrayal

Is it not a pity how the people of Zimbabwe have been duped not once, but twice? The first betrayal came from figures like Cecil Rhodes and his clansmen, who, under the guise of imperialism, promised development and progress but instead ex…

Published: 19 Jan 2025 at 14:23hrs | 12 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi

As Rhodes falls Nehanda arises

WHILE Zimbabweans bemoan the little money spent to remember a mother of our liberation, the Black Lives Matter Movement engulfs the globe after the massacre of George Floyd. Resultantly, statues and monuments of slave traders and coloniali…

Published: 30 May 2021 at 07:39hrs | | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva

Zimbabwe's 2018 Rhodes Scholar selected

As the Zimbabwe Rhodes Selection Committee, we have just finished two days of interviewing nine outstanding Zimbabwean finalists for the Rhodes Scholarship. These shortlisted candidates came from Universities in Zimbabwe, SA, USA, and the …

Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 16:33hrs | | by Arthur Mutambara

Destruction of historical monuments ill-advised

The "Rhodes Must Fall" campaign has now reached Britain where a statue of Cecil John Rhodes at Oxford's Oriel College is likely to be removed from its pedestal and thrown into either some dark storeroom as was the case with that which was …

Published: 06 Jan 2016 at 05:31hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu

Removing Rhodes' grave won't change history

SOME Zimbabwean print media recently published stories to the effect that some members of the Zanu-PF Youth League were stopped by an arm of the national security machinery from removing the remains of Cecil John Rhodes from his grave on t…

Published: 04 Apr 2015 at 07:56hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu

King Lobengula was sacrilegiously assassinated by Cecil John Rhodes

In an obscure but revealing biography of Cecil John Rhodes written soon after Dr Leander Starr JamesonâˆšÃ‰Â¬Â¢âˆšÂ¢â€šÃ„Ã¶Â¬Â¨âˆšÂ¢â€šÃ„Ã»Â¬Â¢s death in 1917, the biographer inadvertently let the proverbial cat out of the bag in a most as…

Published: 04 Jul 2012 at 08:49hrs | 3075 | by Colls Ndlovu

Cecil John Rhodes was a bigoted buffoon

A Sequel to 'Zambian Intellectuals are LazyI told my son not to take after me; break tradition chains, remove old edicts, and create new rituals. Take after Mandela, Gates, Jobs, or Einstein. Take after someone who has changed the world. Y…

Published: 23 Feb 2012 at 17:25hrs | | by Field Ruwe

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