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Europe's Role in Zimbabwe's Independence
As Zimbabwe continues to wrestle with its political identity and the legacy of its liberation struggle, one factor overlooked truth must be confronted, the war of liberation was not fought in isolatio...Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 22:26hrs | 246 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
South African GNU and Zimbabwe economy
GNU as portfolio controlThis week, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa was inaugurated for his second and last term in office under the current Constitution.What is now awaited is...Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 11:28hrs | 7 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
RBZ is the problem not ZiG!
Before going to press on the Zimbabwe currency crisis, I had seven questions I wanted authoritatively answered. Professor Gift Mugano was the answer."Isn't he the one who is supposed to disapp...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 17:58hrs | 4 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabwe currency crisis: Time to face the truth
THERE is, of course, no such thing as "a shortage of foreign currency".In open and disciplined markets, all that such a claim reflects is an over-valued local currency, whose managers resist t...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:26hrs | 1 | by Obert Nyandoro
Why US sanctions on Zimbabwe 'have not worked'
The United States is a global superpower. Its political and economic reach is massive and global in character. Look back in history and you can see how the US has so often made real changes to the wor...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 19:54hrs | | by Eddie Cross
ZPRA commander Mbedzi was a brave, committed freedom fighter
JOSEPH Mbedzi pseudo name Sibuko who died at Mvurwi Hospital recently belonged to a rare breed of freedom fighters who despite the odds heavily staked against them put their heads on the block all for...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Why Zanu-PF is not so successful after 2001
Last Sunday I tried to answer the question, Why Was Zanu/Zanu PF so successful in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. This week I concentrate on why is Zanu-PF not so successful after 2001...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 19:55hrs | | by Fay Chung
Zimbabwe: Class IN itself versus Class FOR itself
US goose versus NED ganderTHERE is always more to write about than there is space to publish. Last week I had to drop two key matters, to allow myself to address in extenso what I sought to ra...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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 ma...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:35hrs | 6 | by Rutendo Bereza Matinyarare
Rhodesian Model worked and it will work even better NOW
Zimbabwe needs to look at the model that worked and make it even better under sanctions. From the 1940 when the Rhodesian economy was booming the country had only one university and the focus of the t...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 20:32hrs | 3 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zimbabwe to be another Singapore, says Zanu PF
THE ruling Zanu-PF party says it is optimistic that Zimbabwe will soon come out of the economic woods and transform into another Singapore.Top Zanu-PF official and former presidential adviser ...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe ebuilding or establishing a new economy?
THE struggle to figure a way forward continues. The fire-fighting approach is the order of the day. Despite the various economic policy directions by the government, there is lack of clarity on where ...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 06:05hrs | 4 | by Tapiwa Gomo
'How I dumped Zapu for Zanu'
Chrispen Tapfuma Mataire (born February 24, 1945 in Chivhu), whose Chimurenga name was David Todhlana, continues his interview with the Sunday Mail comprising Munyaradzi Huni and Tendai Manzvanzvike. ...Published: 22 Oct 2017 at 09:08hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Around claims of a dying Zanu-PF
One question many of my readers pose and even criticise me for is taking contrary thoughts too seriously. I fully understand where my readers are coming from. We have become a virtual community of opi...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
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 | 66 | by Dean McCleland
ZANU PF's perpetual excuses are a clear sign of failure
In any given environment, success is measured by one's ability to deliver, in spite of any challenges faced along the way; as the inability to deliver by proffering excuses - no matter how understanda...Published: 08 Feb 2016 at 09:19hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe - From bread basket to beg basket
THOSE of us who grew up in Rhodesia knew from an early age that the foundational pillars of the strength of the Rhodesian economy lay in agriculture, mining and manufacturing.So strong was Rho...Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 13:36hrs | | by Welshman Ncube
Zanu-PF: a genuinely nationalist party
IF there are any political parties in Africa known for nationalism today, certainly Zanu-PF will be counted among them. It is a party founded on nationalism, rooted in the liberation legacy that broug...Published: 27 Mar 2015 at 11:03hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
This Mugabe 'death' nonsense must stop!
A POSTER announcing a church event that I saw in Chitungwiza some time last year caught my eye. The theme of the convention was, "This nonsense must stop!"Although there was a biblical verse t...Published: 08 Jan 2015 at 08:42hrs | | by The Arena Hildegarde
How Zanu-PF squandered the struggle dividend
The culmination of years of violence, abuse and crimes against innocent citizens must see the implosion or rupture of a liberation party that never knew how to govern.Liberation struggle ...Published: 21 Aug 2014 at 08:49hrs | 1 | by Vince Musewe
Ex-Zipra combatants angered by army magazine
EX-ZIPRA combatants have been angered by a claim in the Zimbabwe National Army magazine’s first edition of 2014 that the then Salisbury fuel tanks were blown up by Zanla forces in December 1978....Published: 22 Jun 2014 at 06:22hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe, the numerate Nation that can't count
Matters are hurtling to a head in the MDC-T, are they not? But I must correct myself. I was rather hard on Biti and Mangoma last week. Or is it Mangoma and Biti? Just who is who? And what is the hiera...Published: 22 Mar 2014 at 08:14hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Economic development for Rhodesia
With the rapid development of the Rhodesian economy, despite sanctions. the need to involve black Rhodesians more closely became paramount, so that they could form an integral part of this development...Published: 29 May 2013 at 06:10hrs | 7 | by Business reporter
When Tsvangirai becomes a Mandela
The beauty about running a muscular column is that oftentimes you sting your opponents into an ungainly self-display. My bad friend Muckraker did just that this week. Stung by my expos√É∆ÃÂÂ...Published: 28 Jul 2012 at 05:09hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
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