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Dr. Arikana Chihombori: the unsung heroine of Africa
She will never get recognition in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwean women have no vocabulary to appraise Dr. Chohombori breaking the glass-ceiling. The inner jealousy and the inherent envy among us women are so ev...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 12:52hrs | 379 | by Nomazulu Thata
Britain's former colonies should be thankful for the legacy of empire
Britain's former colonies should be thankful for the legacy of empire, not demanding reparations, according to the Conservative leadership candidate Robert Jenrick.In comments that were descri...Published: 30 Oct 2024 at 09:51hrs | 719 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spokesman says Commonwealth is a 'needless albatross'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman George Charamba says he would rather Zimbabwe quits the Commonwealth forever, even as the ruling Zanu PF party has been lobbying some members of the club of fo...Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 16:19hrs | 965 | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth leaders to defy UK on slavery reparations
Commonwealth heads of government are preparing to defy the United Kingdom and agree plans to examine reparatory justice for the transatlantic slave trade, the BBC has learned.Downing Street in...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 08:52hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
Call for reparations: A mere excuse by failed African leaders!
As the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) kicked off this week in Samoa, the topic of reparations for slavery and colonialism has once again been thrust into the spotlight. Sever...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:31hrs | 270 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Britain will not pay slave trade reparations'
Britain will not raise the issue of reparations for transatlantic slavery at a meeting of Commonwealth nations this week, according to a Reuters report on Monday.The Commonwealth Heads of Gove...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 10:51hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
ZIM condemns Mnangagwa's US$3 billion white farmers compensation plan
The Zimbabwe Independent Movement (ZIM) has condemned Mnangagwa's US$3 billion compensation package for white farmers, describing the act as reversal for the liberation struggle gains.In a sta...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 11:28hrs | 898 | by Staff Reporters
Zimbabweans should know that independence never guarantees freedom
This is a truth that has seemingly been lost on many people. For some strange reason, we appear to believe that the attainment of political independence by a country automatically translates i...Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 16:19hrs | 602 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
WATCH: Anti-colonialist leaflets in support of African people appeared in Brussels
The streets of the capital of Belgium, Brussels, were covered with numerous leaflets containing anti-colonialist slogans and calls for support for Africans who found themselves in dire straits due to ...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 20:36hrs | 272 | by Staff Reporter
African children are wood, and water collectors for the whites: nothing has changed!
I wish I lived in another planet and certainly not planet Earth because this one has painful contradictions. Africa, especially, a continent that was ravaged by slavery for centuries. The white popula...Published: 23 Jul 2024 at 16:48hrs | 646 | by Nomazulu Thata
Activists in bizarre semi-nude demo
In Bulawayo, residents were surprised on Thursday by the appearance of two half-naked men adorned in traditional Zulu/Ndebele attire, with one displaying his bare backside. The individuals, identified...Published: 15 Jun 2024 at 11:02hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Bus conductor in court for sex slavery trafficking
A conductor employed by the prominent bus company Rimbi Tours has been arrested for allegedly trafficking a 16-year-old girl to Cape Town and selling her into sex slavery.Levie Tsongo, 37, of ...Published: 05 Jun 2024 at 13:06hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Africans of the world, unite
UNITING this great continent called Africa is of paramount importance. Perhaps more than that, it has always been crucial that the people of this continent flourish beyond measure. This is ver...Published: 19 May 2024 at 10:47hrs | | by Dr Obert Mpofu
UK tightens home care workers' visa regime
Some Zimbabwean home care workers based in the United Kingdom are facing tough times as it has become increasingly difficult to renew their immigration permits. Grosvenor Healthcare, the UK's ...Published: 14 Mar 2024 at 16:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pan-Africanism is dead!
Twice, in as many weeks, I have heard Zimbabwe President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa speak on the need to preserve Pan-Africanism.Yesterday was the latest, as he attended a memorial service he...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 22:11hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Excited by the killings: How The Chronicle covered the Gukurahundi genocide
AbstractTHIS paper examines and interrogates the role of the state-controlled media during the Gukurahundi genocide in Zimbabwe. Gukurahundi is a genocide that took place in Zimbabwe betwe...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:51hrs | 9 | by Bhekinkosi Jakobe Ncube
Western modernization was fraught with sanguineous crimes
The path to modernization a country chooses is determined by its historical traditions, social systems, developmental conditions, and external environment, among other factors. As countries differ in ...Published: 21 Jan 2024 at 15:48hrs | | by Xi Jinping
Rising sudden death cases among newly arrived diasporans - medical expert speaks
MICHAEL Mawema had barely been in the United Kingdom (UK) for two months when he died suddenly in December last year, explained a GoFundMe appeal launched to raise funds for repatriation of his body t...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:42hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zapu blast tribal ZBC presenters
ZAPU spokesperson Richard Gandari has blasted the ZBC presenters who made tribal attacks on the Ndebele King LObengula live on TV claiming he was depicted to sell the country to colonialis...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 15:24hrs | 34 | by Stephen Jakes
Lobengula denigrating presenter, ZBC board fired
Zimbabwe's Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Jenfan Muswere has dismissed the state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) board, while getting two television present...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 13:04hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Music that doesn't speak for the oppressed is not really music!
Of late, we have witnessed divided opinions on our music legend Winky D (Wallace Chirumiko).This is on account of his recent songs, which have mainly touched on the social injustices faced by ...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 20:12hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Economic gloom feeds Christmas rush to get passports to leave Zimbabwe
Atop many Christmas wish lists in economically troubled Zimbabwe is a travel document, and people are flooding the passport office this holiday season ahead of a price hike planned in the New Year....Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 08:44hrs | 4 | by Associated Press
Hands off King Lobengula, he was not a Zimbabwean!
Unformed, ignorant and reckless Zimbabwe satirists, journalists, whatever they call themselves, should be advised that His Majesty, King Lobengula of Matabeleland was not a Zimbabwean. Ingqungqulu Ema...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 09:46hrs | 14 | by Israel Dube
Pitfalls of Liberation Movements in Zimbabwe
This paper seeks to provide an introductory general overview of the pitfalls associated with liberation movements in Zimbabwe up to a certain historical point. However, the most accurate and u...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 08:30hrs | 10 | by Josh Mhambi
Zimbabwe care workers abused in UK
A recent survey has highlighted that Zimbabweans, among other foreigners, are being subjected to exploitation in the United Kingdom's care work sector. The report from the United Kingdom's national he...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans among top 5 most exploited nationals in UK
A LATEST situational report by a non-profit organisation in the United Kingdom (UK) has painted a gloomy picture that reeks of massive exploitation, bordering on slavery, of migrants from developing c...Published: 29 Oct 2023 at 19:30hrs | | by James Muonwa
Bogus employment agent exposed
Desperate job seekers face the risk of losing their money to a fraudulent recruitment agency that promises housemaid positions in the Middle East and Europe, potentially entangling them in a human tra...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 07:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Senate and PR, the maxim gun firing at Bulawayo
The Senate, Youth and PR lists for the 2023 harmonised elections in Bulawayo Province, are the newest metaphorical maxim gun whose bullets are brutally firing at the tender heart of the City of Bulawa...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 20:03hrs | 16 | by Nhlanhla Moses Ncube (Secretary General)
Chamisa's CCC to repeal the 'Patriot Act'
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) says it will repeal new clauses in the Criminal (Codification and Reform) Act that criminalises criticism of government once the party is elected into power....Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Egypt Dzinemunhenzva not contesting this time around
Remember Egypt, not the country whose history is documented in the Bible, and made immortal by the story of the Israelites fleeing slavery to the promised land of milk and honey.We are talking...Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 08:27hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Embracing deglobalisation in a globalised world
"The more things change, the more they stay the same ..." is a commonly used quotation coined by the French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr.The saying implies that even the most turbulent o...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:50hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
No more job termination on 3 months notice
EMPLOYERS will no longer be able to terminate contracts of their permanent staff on three months notice after the National Assembly removed a clause in the Labour Act that conferred them powers to fir...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
African Union is funded by the same people they are fighting
Imagine getting advice from your enemy on how to beat them in an economic or guerrilla war. The adage that goes, "It's not your duty to stop your enemy when they are making mistakes" is always seen wh...Published: 28 May 2023 at 16:06hrs | 3 | by Erick Matotoba
Why I hate politics
So yes. I hate Zimbabwean politics. Obviously. I hate how every five years we get into this circus about giving people already with immeasurable riches and privilege the opportunity to get even more r...Published: 21 May 2023 at 09:34hrs | | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Africa should stop being such a crybaby!
We all know there is nothing more 'uncool' or 'unsexy' than someone who never owns up to his own failures in life - but seeks to blame others as to why he is not succeeding.Amongst all these, ...Published: 17 May 2023 at 13:44hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why does Africa feel it has to be a slave to one global power or the other?
Will Africa ever be truly free? That is the question that always bugs my mind, as I watch the manner in which our leaders appear perpetually trapped in a 'slave mentality' - whereby, they beli...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 12:17hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Black people can conquer world if only we stopped moping over colonialism and racism!
So, now both the British Prime Minister and Scottish First Minister are of Indian descent.Rushi Sunak and Humza Yousaf were elected leaders of their respective parties and nations – the Brit...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 10:39hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
All Zimbabweans must enjoy the fruits of independence
ZIMBABWEAN politicians involve musicians in their political activities when they are campaigning to be voted into public office.Musicians sing songs of praise and many a time, such songs exagg...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 07:52hrs | | by Clive Malunga
Zimbabwe politics: Lineaments of stock characters
What are stock characters?LET me be basic so I am accessible to many of my readers, whatever level of education, and from whichever discipline they hail.In literature we have what are ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 9 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Zimbabwe govt ramps up anti-human trafficking efforts
What seemed to be a good escape from poverty back home in Zimbabwe quickly turned into a nightmare for Chipo* when she landed in Oman in 2022.Like many economically impoverished citizens, Chip...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa was never appointed by God!
As the Christian world moves out of the so-called 'Easter holidays' - to be expected, there were multitudes who gathered in various places to commemorate the death and resurrection of our Lord and...Published: 11 Apr 2023 at 09:45hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe mulls stiffer penalties for human traffickers
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga has revealed that the country will impose stiffer penalties for human traffickers who he accused of robbing the nation of human capital in the name of recruiting pr...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Opposition should break, and not actually perpetuate, cycle of dictatorship in Zimbabwe!
Every dictator has a justification for his decision to be a tyrant. Authoritarian rulers have always given what appeared sound reasons as to why they should govern with an iron-fist, and any w...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 08:50hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Anything called the Zimbabwean GEIST?
Zimbabwe's GEIST?NATIONS have what Antonio Gramsci terms "particularity of their mind", GEIST in German language, or ESPRIT in French.Here in Africa, thinkers called the same variously...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 07:32hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
Harare woman up for slavery
A Harare woman Daisy Machiha (34) is facing human trafficking charges for allegedly "enslaving" a juvenile from Chitungwiza.Machiha appeared before Chitungwiza Magistrate Court charged with vi...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe never accounted billions to build Blue Roof, talents he received and wasted; instead blamed British for everything
Let me say from the on-set that white colonial exploitation of Africa has a lot to answer for why the continent is in the economic and political mess it is today. But this is not say the whites are so...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 14:11hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe police hunt for human trafficking suspect
Police have launched a manhunt for Jacqueline Takure nee Chikukwa, 45, who is a suspect in a case of human trafficking.According to police, sometime in 2022, Takure posed as an employment agen...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 07:51hrs | 78 | by Staff reporter
Spar Zimbabwe should take full responsibility for heinous murder of its employee!
This morning, I had the inspiration to pen an article on an entirely different topic - which is in the same mould as my usual social justice advocacy on matters bedevilling ordinary Zimbabweans....Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 14:48hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Spotlight on slay queens, sex trafficking in Diaspora
Romanticised dreams of greener pastures have for a long-time drawn locals to the diaspora, at times, young married individuals leaving their spouses and children in hope for a better future.In...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 04:54hrs | 10 | by Kundai Marunya
'UK-based Zimbabwean caregivers being exploited'
SOME Zimbabwean caregivers in the United Kingdom (UK) are allegedly subjected to, among other ill-treatments, unfair labour practises such as working for long hours on poor wages and sacked from work ...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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