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Debate flares over teaching STEM subjects in local languages
A heated debate is unfolding in Zimbabwe over government proposals to introduce science and mathematics lessons in local languages, with supporters hailing the move as a step towards decolonising educ...Published: 20 Aug 2025 at 09:12hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa renames Tomlinson depot to Chimoio camp
President Emmerson Mnangagwa today officially renamed the historic Tomlinson Depot to Chimoio Camp and commissioned new police residential flats at the site, describing the initiative as a concrete st...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:27hrs | 41 | by Staff reporter
Ngugi wa Thiong'o dies at 87
Celebrated Kenyan author, scholar, and activist Ngugi wa Thiong'o, best known for his landmark novel A Grain of Wheat, has passed away at the age of 87.A monumental figure in African literatur...Published: 29 May 2025 at 17:40hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
Book Review | Odyssey of Liberation: A Memoir of a Rebel Advocate
Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic, famously argued that "until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter". In his recently minted book, Od...Published: 15 Mar 2025 at 14:08hrs | 261 | by Professor Sipho Seepe
Thomas Mapfumo retires in exile
OF all my records by Zimbabwean musicians, the one I treasure the most is Thomas Mapfumo's crackly 7-inch single with "Kuyaura" on side A and "Zvanyadza" on the flip side.Released in 1979, tow...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:50hrs | 20 | by Percy Zvomuya
Mnangagwa says 2023 elections deeply rooted in liberation struggle
HARMONISED elections that will be held on August 23 are a product of the liberation struggle that secured the country's independence from British colonial rule and are an important part of consolidati...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:42hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
British Council funds African artists with £700 000
The British Council's Sub-Saharan Arts programme has announced the success of its Culture Exchange open call for grants, an initiative that connects and promotes cultural exchanges through art. ...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 15:31hrs | 46 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Does Zimbabwe need the Commonwealth?
ZIMBABWE joined the Commonwealth in 1980 after gaining independence from Britain - in what appeared to be a major victory for the Commonwealth. Twenty-three years down the road, Zimbabwe quit the Comm...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 3 | by Vusi Nyamazana
ZANU PF to elect Ndebele President in the coming congress?
Should a Matabele, through a miracle, be elected as ZANU PF President in the coming congress, that man or woman would be very lucky to come out of Harare alive.You have heard how MDC aka CCC s...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 13:54hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
National languages critical in decolonising the mind
President Mnangagwa yesterday officially opened the National Languages Conference in Victoria Falls.Running under the theme: "Redefining the role of Zimbabwean languages for national developme...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
World Bank and the IMF have remained largely colonial in character to this day
Most people assume that inequality between the global South and the global North (the United States, Western Europe, Japan, Canada and Australia) has been declining over the past few decades. After al...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 07:43hrs | 16 | by Professor Jason Hickel
Masiyiwa joins Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Board
THE Gates Foundation is adding four new members to its board of trustees: its CEO Mark Suzman; Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa; Thomas Tierney, the co-founder of Bridgespan Group, one of the no...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 18:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA Constitution is not sacred, judges not demigods
SOUTH Africa's Tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu penned an opinion piece on January 7 2022 titled: Hi Mzansi, have we seen justice?It was quite a refreshing critique of the challenges confrontin...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:18hrs | 1 | by Arthur GO Mutambara
Chiwenga and the decolonisation of the field of political science
WHILE the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter Rodney, Archie Mafeje, Ali Mazrui, Thabo Mbeki, Asan...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 4 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Chiwenga triggers important political science debate
Black Epistemologies and the Non-Writing PoliticianWhile the repository of African political philosophy is awash with contributions from intellectual doyens like Marcus Garvey, Senghor Toure, Walter R...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Richard Mahomva
Zimbabwe to host African war vets museum
PLANS to establish a War Veterans' Museum for African Liberation in Zimbabwe are underway after President Emmerson Mnangagwa gave it the nod. This was announced by war veterans association sec...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why I am teaching Shona philosophy in the UK
Philosophy deals with the "big questions" that concern us all, such as: what can I know, how should we live, and how should society be organized? But arguably the greatest of the big questions are to ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 14:16hrs | 27 | by Professor Lloyd Strickland
'Beware of regime change agents'
ZIMBABWEANS should be wary of agents of regime change who come under the guise of human rights activism as they seek to unseat Government. This was said by Zanu-PF Politburo member Munyaradzi ...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
On Decolonising Governmentality
It is a truly careless but also stubborn truism that if we had no nation-states in the world we would not have nationless and stateless people. Nations and states are the source of nationlessness and ...Published: 05 May 2019 at 09:57hrs | 2 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Decolonising Political Philosophy in Africa
It is the argument of the present piece that in the history of the world Africans have and still can produce, independent of Europe and America, political and economic ideas that can save the world. F...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Lupane university hosts public lecture
Lupane State University Alumni Association is today Friday hosting a public lecture on the role of universities in paving way for national development.In a notice sent to invitees, the u...Published: 25 Aug 2017 at 07:24hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
LEST WE FORGET: The Zipra commander who lost his sight in combat
PEOPLE from all walks of life will tomorrow converge on various places across the country to commemorate the Heroes Day, a day set aside to remember the sacrifices made by the gallant sons and daughte...Published: 13 Aug 2017 at 13:09hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Treachery of African philosophy
One of the unseemly decorations of Western science and philosophy has been, in this century and its many forerunners, its vaunting and chest-beating arrogance.Without a single dot of shame, Fr...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:27hrs | 2 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Decolonising travelling in Africa
As we conclude our Africa Week celebrations, the biggest question in my mind is when and how will travel in the continent be decolonised?The phrase on every speaker's lips at the Africa Travel...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 16:59hrs | 1 | by Mantombi Makhubele
Gukurahundi wounds are still fresh
In one of the saddest episodes in Zimbabwe's never-ending political drama, some lawmakers are now approaching the National Peace and Reconciliation Bill from factional vantage points influenced by Zan...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 10:48hrs | 2 | by Brezhnev Malaba
Do we need white supervision and tutelage?
Economic power in South Africa still resides in the hands of those who benefited from apartheid, in white hands, Eskom CEO Brian Molefe explains in a speech he made at a TNA Business briefing on Wedne...Published: 30 Nov 2016 at 12:51hrs | 3 | by Brian Molefe
West's bad Press against President
Shall we start by taking a cue from the great British journalist, Sir Peregrine Worsthorne (now 92), former editor of the Sunday Telegraph (1986-91).Confessing in an article in the Daily Mail ...Published: 08 Jul 2016 at 06:42hrs | 5 | by Baffour Ankomah
Liberating the University in Africa
Presently there are emphatic currents of argument all calling for either the transformation, Africanisation or the decolonisation of the university in Africa. Long years of university education in Afr...Published: 08 May 2016 at 10:44hrs | 3 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Muna Hacha Maive Nei? The first speculative fiction novel in ChiShona re-published.
A United Kingdom based Zimbabwean author Masimba Musodza, five years after publishing MunaHacha Maive Nei? has again issued the first ever science-fiction novel in ChiShona, and the first novel in tha...Published: 04 May 2016 at 13:19hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
First Sci-fi novel in Shona relaunched
Muna Hacha Maive Nei? The first speculative fiction novel in ChiShona re-published. Five years after publishing MunaHacha Maive Nei?, Masimba Musodza has issued again the first ever science-fi...Published: 04 May 2016 at 07:37hrs | 2 | by Belontos Books
AfriForum challenge is less about Zimbabwe but more about South African and Namibian land reform
LAST week I promised to tackle the issue of the sale by auction of a property of the Zimbabwe Government in Cape Town, over a court action involving AfriForum, a white legal outfit defending colonial ...Published: 04 Oct 2015 at 09:28hrs | 14 | by Nathaniel Manheru
What exactly is 'a repeat of 2008' - Prof J Moyo
There is pandemonium in the embattled GPA circles with scandalous warnings of a looming "repeat of 2008" as Zimbabweans continue to lose faith in the GPA now widely seen as having failed the nation on...Published: 17 Jun 2012 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Prof J Moyo
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