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Zimbabwe paying Ian Smith regime debt used for fighting liberators

Zimbabwe has been burdened with a staggering $700 million debt incurred during the Ian Smith regime, primarily used for purchasing weapons to suppress liberation efforts, according to researcher and Australian health practitioner Jane Wood…

Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 10:25hrs | 924 | by Staff reporter

'Mnangagwa copying Smith's colonial handbook'

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused of copying the late colonial leader Ian Smith's system of weaponising the law against critics."In fact, the methods used by the Smith regime on the black majority population to stifle their rig…

Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean-Australian actress co-stars as Will Smith's wife in slavery epic 'Emancipation'

Zimbabwean-Australian actress Charmaine Bingwa (37) who was born and raised in Perth starts as Will Smith's wife in slavery epic Emancipation which debuts in theatres on December 9.Speaking at a London premiere last week, Smith said he hop…

Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa wades into his comparison to Ian Smith

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has blasted social media users who spent the greater part of last week comparing him to Ian Smith, one of Zimbabwe's colonial era leaders, calling them misguided fools, and their behaviour disheartening.Social …

Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:48hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa worse than Mugabe, Smith combined

SINCE two years ago when the so-called new dispensation took over power after rigging the election, robbing Nelson Chamisa of a clear victory, we have witnessed the highest level of lawlessness.It is now in the public domain that President…

Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 07:13hrs | 3 | by Nhamo Tofa

I miss Smith's Rhodesia

SINCE the attainment of our independence in 1980, the people of Zimbabwe have never tasted true freedom under the ruling Zanu-PF elite.The late former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith's regime could have been repressive, but was better a…

Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:39hrs | 15 | by Concerned

The Gukurahundi roll of dishonour

Had the brave and forthright Bulawayo24News existed at the time of Gukurahundi so many lives could have been saved. Indeed the latter-day revisionists who are shouting that it was a war are being truthful. It was a war against babies that …

Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 16:49hrs | 3 | by L. Dube

Axcil Jefferies charms Hollywood star Will Smith

THE year 2018 is one 24-year-old Zimbabwe racing sensation Axcil Jefferies describes as bitter-sweet.Bitter, because Lady Luck seemed to desert him in crucial events and sweet in that he competed well in almost all races and actually won t…

Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 10:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

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 | 3 | by Simon Massey

Memories of farm life before Independence

Sunday afternoon, in the blistering heat, I was driving on a dusty winding road, along the Hwedza mountains going to the village. Then I saw an elderly lady flagging me to stop, obviously wanting a lift. She balanced a big bag on her head,…

Published: 14 Sep 2016 at 07:10hrs | 475 | by Dr Sekai Nzenza

Mugabe death rumours and the wrath of evil

Every time President Mugabe travels to Malaysia, rumours emerge to the effect that he would have collapsed and subsequently rushed for treatment in the Middle East. Almost immediately, he would then be reported to have died. However, upon …

Published: 09 Sep 2016 at 08:15hrs | 2960 | by Immigration Maziwisa

'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 | 1900 | by Staff reporter

Smith's apologists are unpatriotic and ungrateful

When history records people as cruel and inhumane, it would be foolhardy for anyone else to try and dust off their indelibly soiled images by romanticising either their words or demeanour through stitched up newspaper articles.This is the …

Published: 22 Jun 2016 at 10:53hrs | 3 | by Indrah Zvenyika

Ian Smith's mean machine exposed

JUST been reading the book, "The Empire Writes Back" by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin and the book tickled me to critically think about the on-going and well-funded project by ex-Rhodesians. Borrowing from the title of t…

Published: 24 Apr 2016 at 16:57hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter

Men in Black 3 dethrones box office record-breaker 'The Avengers'

LOS ANGELES - "Men in Black 3" with the reunion of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones successfully dethroned record-breaker "The Avengers" at the North America box office at the long Memorial Day weekend.The Sony's 230-million budget 3D threeq…

Published: 28 May 2012 at 22:15hrs | 12 | by Moyo Roy

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