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Ballots and Bullets: The Struggle for Democracy in Africa
Since the wave of independence that swept across Africa in the 1960s, the promise of democracy has remained elusive for much of the continent. The dream of democratic governance, where leaders are acc...Published: 20 Feb 2025 at 08:34hrs | 795 | by Rutendo Vanessa Chisi
Africa's future lies in its own hands
President E.D. Mnangagwa's advice that Africans should utilize their own resources to sustain their livelihoods and avoid relying on foreign aid is a wise and timely move that all Africans should embr...Published: 27 May 2024 at 19:59hrs | 16 | by Tonderai Ndoro
Pan Africanist organisations urged to form one institution to spearhead United States of Africa
Pan Africanists organisations formed in the continent have been challenged to come together to form one institution that will significantly push for a one united state of Africa in order to prevent in...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 15:26hrs | 12 | by Stephen Jakes
'Mugabe speaks from the grave'
FORMER deputy prime minister, Prof Arthur Mutambara, will this Monday launch the third and final book in his autobiographical trilogy in the United Kingdom at the Law School of the University of Westm...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 06:53hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Nigerian man discovers Lake Leicester in UK
A NIGERIAN man living in the United Kingdom has been hailed on online platforms after saying he discovered a lake in Leicester in the United Kingdom, as part of dismantling colonial narratives....Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 16:50hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Shock as CCC leader calls for the end of US$ dominance...praises Gaddafi
CCC Secretary General Charlton Hwende has shocked his followers after posting a tweet praising the late Libyan dictator Mu'ammar Al-Qadhdhāfī describing him as a visionary who wanted to bring to Afr...Published: 22 Apr 2022 at 09:04hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Russia-Ukraine tiff exposes hypocrisy of US, West
On the last Friday of last month, a delegation of US Embassy in Zimbabwe personnel and its European Union (EU) counterparts made a beeline for Munhumutapa Building in Harare to the Ministry of Foreign...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 05:30hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Jonathan Moyo heaps praises on Julius Malema
Exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo has heaped praises on South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters leader Sello Julius Malema. Moyo was commenting on a video clip of Malema's court case where he is...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 09:30hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Africa: A complex trajectory and legacy of military coups
FOR their spectacular nature, coups always appear like new phenomena when actually they are an old military and political issue that dates back to the genesis of humanity.It is like that in th...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 10 | by William Jethro Mpofu
War vets endorse Mnangagwa for 2023 Presidency
Freedom Fighters Associations have endorsed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the Zanu-PF Presidential Candidate for 2023 harmonised elections.Provincial executive members of freedom fighters as...Published: 26 May 2021 at 16:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Xenophobic attacks in South Africa exposes SADC & AU
This is now the third time in history where xenophobic attacks have worn an ugly face in South Africa with SADC and AU going on silent mode.As I write this article President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 15:58hrs | 6 | by Leonard Koni
Africa Day ADF speech 2019
Africa day is about the freedom of the African people, it is not so much more about the trivialisation of the ordinary people of Africa by those in the know or who claim so to be or in power. Africa d...Published: 25 May 2019 at 16:14hrs | 2 | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
African traditional leaders back Chief Ndiweni
AFRICA'S Forum for traditional leaders, Sultans, Princes and Sheiks has thrown its weight behind outspoken Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni who raised the ire of government and Zanu-PF offi...Published: 22 May 2019 at 06:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
We cannot blame Nelson Chamisa without blaming all of us
We are under sanctions from the United States, the European Union and other Western outposts like Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and the ruin of the sanctions is without doubt. Our industr...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
African religion comprises of witches, satanists, spiritualists, spirit mediums
African religion comprises of witches, satanists, spiritualists, spirit mediums, healers, kings and queens. While Christianity remains as that or those institutions preaching, teaching and prophesying...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 14:50hrs | 15 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Has the revolutionary party lost the plot?
So many conspiracy theories have been written on the revolutionary party with some saying the party died when Robert Gabriel Mugabe the former President was ejected from the party.The revoluti...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 17:54hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
Mutambara calls for a United States of Africa
FORMER deputy prime minister Professor Arthur Mutambara has told a British audience that the mooted "ever-closer African Union" was "despicable" and instead suggested that a "United States of Africa" ...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 18:58hrs | 3 | by African News Agency
'United Sates of Africa' & 'third parties'
More than seven years ago the late Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi vied for the amalganation of all African countries into a domain he coined the "United States of Africa" an ideology which was first...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 14:59hrs | 1 | by Daniel Itai
'Africa is vibrant and prosperous,' says Ramaphosa - not true, a head in clouds Nero moment
It is a great disappointment when, seemingly level-headed people, are appointed into high and they lose their heads. The act of elevating them into high office makes them lose their heads in the cloud...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Who exactly was former President Mugabe?
The late VP Nkomo warned us in his 1984 book that there is a Robert Mugabe we don't know, but we were too consumed by the dummy we had been sold by the dominant liberation war discourses. These warnin...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 08:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Under the weather, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, due to circumstances beyond my own control, I am unable to address you this week.As most of you who care would be aware of, I had to travel ...Published: 13 Jul 2017 at 19:18hrs | 1 | by CZ
A prophet is not without honour save in his own country
Many a times, people begin to realise the importance of something after they have lost it, the same scenario that also happens in human relations.One needs to attend a funeral to understand th...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 13:01hrs | 2 | by Rufaro Mufundirwa
Zanu PF is not Zimbabwe- analyst
A political commentator Godknows Kudzanayi Mashaire has warned Zimbabweans to stop seeing Zanu PF and politicians as Zimbabwe.He said everybody believes in Zimbabwe except Zimbabweans themselv...Published: 11 Apr 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Reform UN first, Bob Crooker
International politics if followed carefully, will make one realize the West have no place for Africans in their definition of humanity. This approach is characterized by perpetual bulldozing of their...Published: 03 Feb 2016 at 13:01hrs | 1 | by Morgan Ngomwa
Open letter to an African Youth
Africa Needs the Next Generation, I am so hopeful about our continent's future, Moreover, the African youth must bear in mind that they are the future leaders of Africa. I see future farmers, ranchers...Published: 01 Feb 2016 at 19:11hrs | 2 | by Adam Bangizwe - Nkashaka Sibuyi
Mugabe, Khama; how people make history
Back in time during my high school days I always wondered what one of the history text book's title “People Making History” meant. Questions like, do people really sit around a table and say, “o...Published: 20 Aug 2015 at 12:07hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba
Dare's Africa Day Message
My fellow Zimbabweans, today we join the rest of the African family both on the African continent and in the diaspora in a celebration of the ideal of African unity which our visionary Pan- African le...Published: 25 May 2015 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Benny Mukusha
South African government modifies xenophobia
A question of who fueled the attacks on Foreign nationals which started towards the end of the year 2014 in Soweto and only got more serious and deadly in these past two weeks, robbing Africa of 7 spe...Published: 29 Apr 2015 at 14:26hrs | 2 | by Brian Sheriff
DARE congratulatory message to Robert Gabriel Mugabe
The Democratic Assembly for Restoration and Empowerment (DARE) extends Zimbabwe's gratitude to our African brothers and sisters for bestowing Zimbabwe with the huge honour and task to chair and lead t...Published: 06 Feb 2015 at 22:40hrs | | by Benny Mukusha
DARE: Congratulatory message to Mugabe
The Democratic Assembly for Restoration and Empowerment (DARE) extends Zimbabwe's gratitude to our African brothers and sisters for bestowing Zimbabwe with the huge honour and task to chair and lead t...Published: 06 Feb 2015 at 20:10hrs | | by Benny Mukusha, Interim Head of International Affairs (DARE)
Zimbabwe making headway, same as that of the Israelites
After breaking ranks from the West's exploitative machinations, Zimbabwe had to be a practical example of the misguided and evil wrath of Britain and her allies, but fortune has a way of finding Zimba...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 17:00hrs | 3 | by Caitlin Kamba
Mugabe wants free visa for Chinese
President Robert Mugabe has ordered Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi to work on the modalities of a free visa regime for Asian economic giant China's nationals to boost the country's tourism.In...Published: 28 Aug 2014 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Towards the great African promise!
Monday was Africa Day. This is the day we, the people of the great continent of Africa, celebrate the day when the then Organisation of African Unity (OAU), the precursor to the African Union (AU), wa...Published: 27 May 2014 at 08:25hrs | 2 | by Nelson Chamisa
'Brand Zimbabwe is flying' says Mzembi
The outgoing Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Engineer Walter Mzembi, has said "Brand Zimbabwe is flying" after the just-ended 20th session of the United Nations World TourismOrg...Published: 01 Sep 2013 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'United States of Africa must be realised,' says Mugabe
President Mugabe says the co-hosting of the 20th session of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation General Assembly by Zimbabwe and Zambia had rekindled his late colleague Libyan leader Muamma...Published: 26 Aug 2013 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Monkey see, monkey do
When I was unceremoniously booted out of Botswana by Seretse Khama Ian Khama's presidential decree in August 2008, former Minister of Media, Information and Publicity in the Office of the President an...Published: 23 Mar 2013 at 17:29hrs | | by zimpapers columnist
This and that with Ml'phosa: United States Of Africa 1
I have always found the idea of a united states of Africa quite intriguing as I think of what Zimbabwe my country would offer in both creating and sustaining the seemingly impossible state. This is no...Published: 03 Feb 2013 at 12:50hrs | 1 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Mugabe faces snub at AU summit
President Robert Mugabe comes up against a potentially embarrassing snub at the African Union summit (AU) this week as he bids to carry his slain friend Muammar Gaddafi's dream for a single Africa Pr...Published: 24 Jan 2013 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe says Africa should have one president
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday said the forthcoming African Union (AU) summit should discuss the appointment of a President of Africa to foster unity among Africans and ensure that member states ...Published: 16 Jan 2013 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa, the black man's burden
So much has been said of the "white man's burden" namely, how the collapsing American Empire and bygone British Empire have shouldered the burden of civilising Africa and driving the global economy fo...Published: 01 Mar 2012 at 06:52hrs | | by Garikai Chengu
The Arab stolen revolution
After Israel and its Western backers defeated Arab nationalism in 1967, a solicitous Nizar Qabbani emotionally called for the rekindling of the Arab fighting spirit.He wrote in a poem:...Published: 09 Jan 2012 at 04:59hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Just like Gaddafi's Libya, Mugabe’s Zimbabwe is
home to some of the world's most exploitative economic terroristsPersonally, I cons...Published: 27 Oct 2011 at 12:23hrs | | by Mathula Lusinga
Gaddafi’s death: An end to tyranny or prosperity?
Gaddafi's death: An end to tyranny or prosperity?The death of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is one of the major highlights in the Arab Spring that began in January when a Tunisian young man set hims...Published: 25 Oct 2011 at 04:42hrs | | by Phithizela Ngcobo
Gaddafi’s death: An end to tyranny or prosperity?
Gaddafi’s death:...Published: 24 Oct 2011 at 22:07hrs | | by Phithizela Ngcobo
This and that with Maluphosa: - Daddy's friends
Those of us who grew up in the rural areas, do you remember daddy's friends, abanye abaxakayo nje? Well, I still remember quite a number, because father was like a celebrity emakhaya. He was one of th...Published: 23 Oct 2011 at 09:19hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu
Mugabe disagreed with Col Gaddafi
Presidential spokesman George Charamba on Saturday said president Robert Mugabe and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had sharp differences founded on principles, but it was up to the Libyans, and not Nat...Published: 22 Oct 2011 at 22:28hrs | 2 | by Mafu Sithabile
Africa and the third world still weak to ward off imperialist: Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe, says Africa and the third world are still very weak to ward off imperialist intentions as seen in the Libyan case.President Mugabe was speaking in the Mozambican capit...Published: 22 Oct 2011 at 15:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zuma: AU better without Gaddafi
Pretoria - The African Union will work better without Libya's ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi, who repeatedly tried to convince members to form a pan-African government, President Jacob Zuma said on Th...Published: 14 Oct 2011 at 08:26hrs | | by -
Thwarting independent nationalism
IT is not archaic reasoning and neither is it "Cold War rhetoric" to note that the real enemy of the United States and its Western allies has long been independent nationalism, particularly when it t...Published: 14 Jul 2011 at 03:32hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Zuma warns Nato against Gaddafi 'assassination'
Pretoria - South African President Jacob Zuma on Sunday warned Nato against using its military campaign in Libya for the "political assassination" of Muammar Gaddafi, at the start of talks on the war....Published: 26 Jun 2011 at 12:52hrs | 3 | by afp
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