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Believing in ancestral spirits is a myth

At death the body and spirit or the material and immaterial separate. In African society the spirits of the dead, variously known in sub-Saharan Africa as amahlozi or amatongo (Zulu), Xhosa), balimo (Sotho, Tswana), psikwembu (Tsonga), med…

Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 17:59hrs | | by Dr Onesimus A. Ngundu

ZimDaily recycling a discredited historical myth

While most progressive Zimbabweans are genuinely outraged by renegade political activist Sengezo Tshabangu's calculated and determined assault on democracy at the behest of forces of darkness by disrupting the main opposition CCC, yet aidi…

Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 09:32hrs | 287 | by Dumisani Muleya

Unpacking Zimbabwe's 'well-educated' myth

The widely acclaimed narrative - correlation fallacy - that Zimbabweans are "well educated" and are some of the highly literate people on this continent is a myth. Myths build egos, not economies; neither do they make any significant contr…

Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:47hrs | 91 | by Rejoice Ngwenya

Free and fair elections is a myth

The nation has witnessed as new political dispensation which was unexpected as the method employed is quite scary and undemocratic. Zimbabwe has been a military state since its formation, elections serve to strengthen the grip of ZANU PF d…

Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 08:53hrs | 618 | by Zondiwe Gumede

Gukurahundi origins: myths and reality

THE fundamental precondition for understanding Zimbabwe in the 1980s - and beyond - is to recognise the supremacist mentality that has underwritten Zimbabwean nationalism since its development in the 1950s and 1960s.When Zanu was created i…

Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 13:05hrs | 21 | by Stuart Doran

Myth of the whiteman's burden

If opposition parties want electoral reforms, the legislative route is provided for in the Constitution and ZEC is a creature of the same. It doesn't make laws and cannot allocate itself functions beyond what is in the ConstitutionI FEEL s…

Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 05:49hrs | 27 | by Joram Nyathi

The born free and other dangerous myths

It comes easy in Africa to call the young men and women born after political independence as the "born free" generation. What the nature of their freedom is, what they are free from, and what privilege if any that freedom delivers to them …

Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 13:17hrs | 33 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena

Matabeleland - the marginalization 'myth'

Ladies and gentlemen of my precious and beloved nations - Bakalanga, BaNambya, Vhavenda, BaPfumbi, Babirwa, bakwaXhosa, nina beSilo bakaPunga noMageba, maNdebele, I am back again. Today I want to address the issue of the marginalization of…

Published: 16 Jun 2012 at 11:58hrs | 30 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel

Rhino horn is not medicine, its just a myth, lets protect the rhino

Zimbabwe has, for the first time in its history, set aside a day to exclusively commemorate the life of the rhino, which faces extinction due to extensive poaching, the world over. Unless concerted and collaborative efforts are made to sal…

Published: 24 Sep 2011 at 13:14hrs | 597 | by Francis Nhema

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