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Remembering those who made it possible, our fallen heroes
As the blood of the heroes flows beneath our freedom, reminding us that every expression of joy and every fruit of freedom was watered by the blood of our heroes. It will become history if we do not r...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 19:31hrs | 867 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Nehanda's bones not yet risen - as she didn't die for White Rhodesia to be replaced by Black Rhodesia!
Yesterday, the 7th July 2020, I took time to watch the usual post-Cabinet media briefing, beamed live on state television - whereby, several government ministers update the nation on their deliberatio...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 15:51hrs | 830 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Army, police flee Islamic terrorists in Mozambique
Mozambican military and police fled Macomia district after extremist Islamist militants launched a violent attack on Thursday, an online publication AFP reported on Friday morning.According to...Published: 29 May 2020 at 09:49hrs | 8011 | by Mandla Ndlovu
How Dabengwa Made me a Freedom Fighter - Confessions of a Zipra Cadre
I must have been 15 years old herding cattle EMlageni near Siwubu along the Manzamnyama river in 1967. I remember the year very well. It was a very hot day and it was schools holiday. So, it was aroun...Published: 17 May 2020 at 15:12hrs | 1326 | by ZAPU Department of Information Publicity and Marketing.
Moving on from Mugabe era
BEING in Harare in the past two weeks has been quite an experience. The Robert Mugabe era has finally closed after his death in Singapore on September 6, even through he is yet to be buried.Bu...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:32hrs | 316 | by Eddie Cross
Lest we forget: Women of the struggle
Tomorrow, Zimbabwe celebrates National Heroes Day, an important day on the national calendar to honour the gallant sons and daughters of the soil who made extraordinary sacrifices to liberate the coun...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
'Release regime change suspects!' Zimbabwe Communist Party demands
The arrest of four people; Tatenda Mombeyarara, George Makoni, Gamuchirai Mukura, and Frank Mphalo upon arrival at the Harare International Airport on Monday 20th April 2019 is clearly an attack on th...Published: 22 May 2019 at 11:15hrs | 2433 | by ZCP
Zanu-PF leaders trapped in Rhodesia
Growing up back then, this Village Idiot remembers well two Rhodesian slogans; ‘Rhodesia will never Die and Rhodesia is Super'. Looking at it today this remains true to the core. The Urban I...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 13:33hrs | 1509 | by Cont Mhlanga - Village idiot
Mugabe a 'deeply conflicted zealot'
In 2017, the Daily Maverick published a series of articles based on Stuart Doran's monumental history of Zanu-PF and Robert Mugabe, titled Kingdom, Power, Glory. In this major review of the book, form...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 13:59hrs | 1669 | by David Owen, British politician
REWIND: Jonathan Moyo savages General Chiwenga
On July 2, 2017, five months before the coup that dethroned Robert Mugabe, The Standard published the interview below.Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo was last week described as an "enem...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 17:21hrs | 10389 | by Staff reporter
So, Gwesela was right in 1982, isn't so in 2017?
The superiority of the Maxim gun which conquered Zimbabweans by Rhodesians in 1856 could not be contested by Blacks up until 1956. By 1956, our boys had gone to South Africa to learn from other oppres...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 15:03hrs | 5785 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Ngwabi speaks on first attack at Zidube ranch
AN organisation that seeks to gather oral history of the liberation struggle recently organised a tour for the media, historians and other bodies dealing with history and archives to Zidube ranch in K...Published: 01 Oct 2017 at 10:12hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
Nhari-Badza rebellion was always coming
Comrade Kenny Constantine Mabuya, whose Chimurenga name was Kenny Ridzai (born 1952), was deployed to the war front in Rhodesia in 1972. He fought many battles and was at one time mistaken for a sello...Published: 23 Sep 2017 at 23:39hrs | 1899 | by Staff reporter
From white to black Rhodesia: A case of inherited oppression
The legacy of colonialism in Africa has largely affected the idea and nature of the post-colonial state. It is in the wake of decolonization (with all its attendant meanings) that discourses of Negrit...Published: 18 Jul 2017 at 16:50hrs | 873 | by Patson Dzamara
Jonathan Moyo savages General Chiwenga, takes aim at Mnangagwa - full interview
Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo was last week described as an "enemy of the state" by Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General Constantino Chiwenga for criticising the implementation of the co...Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 10:39hrs | 2849 | by Staff reporter
Devil called Censorship
The appointment of the new Board of Censors by Minister of Home Affairs Ignatius Chombo is a disaster towards artistic freedom. The purpose of the current board is to silence artists and whip them int...Published: 15 Jun 2017 at 21:01hrs | 376 | by Silvanos Mudzvova
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: ...Published: 15 May 2017 at 06:53hrs | 728 | by Simon Massey
WATCH: White family's traditional home in Zimbabwe
See how Allan Savory, and his wife Jody, live in Zimbabwe, in traditional thatch-roofed mud huts, entirely off-grid with solar cells, LED lanterns, and solar hot water heater. He also goes everywh...Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 08:53hrs | 96202 | by youtube
An insider's account of Mugabe's regime is also a brave act of defiance
What is it about Southern Africa that creates so many moral heavyweights? It seems that adversity and repression in that part of the world stimulate rather than inhibit, and bring out the best in ...Published: 20 Jan 2017 at 05:34hrs | 318 | by David Coltart
A Mthwakazi Zimbabwean President is most dangerous for uMtwakazi's restorationist!
First, there are two misconceptions that need to cleared and gotten out of the way early, now that the cauasable-ness of uMthwakazi's restorationist agenda has taken shape and gained wide acceptance w...Published: 18 Dec 2016 at 16:41hrs | 1370 | by Xoxani Ngxoxo
David Coltart whitewashing history, seeking relevance
It was last Saturday morning that I finally finished David Coltart's autobiography "The Struggle Continues: 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe" – a tome of well over 600 pages that details his life sin...Published: 11 May 2016 at 06:56hrs | 3098 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Tendai Biti, a very small man masquerading as leader of a political party
As I write this piece, I am reminded of one Dennis Brutus and his "Gore'e". "Gore'e" is a poem about an island off Senegal by that name, an island from where Africans were loaded into ships for slaver...Published: 05 Dec 2015 at 07:36hrs | 3872 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Cheap attempts to scamper justice: A forgotten case of Retired Army General Solomon Mujuru
MORGAN RICHARD TSVANGIRAI is the sole name that holds the perennial truth about revolutionary process and democratic transformation of Zimbabwe. The MDC-T under...Published: 30 Sep 2015 at 10:16hrs | 5107 | by Ntate Moruti Tapiwa Diamond Chadya
She defied convention and broke the glass ceiling - Part 1
My name is Sister Bernadette. My actual birth name is Siboniso. I was born in 1957 in Bulawayo at Mpilo Hospital. My father worked in the industries and my mother was a fulltime housewife. My family l...Published: 25 May 2015 at 14:14hrs | 6303 | by Nomazulu Thata - taken from eBook: 'Sweetmother'
'I want to die,' says man, 113
A DEFACED black Rhodesian metal identity card states his date of birth as June 6, 1902, meaning he has officially lived for a century and stolen a further 13 years from another century.Gifted...Published: 19 May 2015 at 07:07hrs | 9349 | by Freedom Mupanedemo
Zimbabwe needs friends, every country needs friends
In the past six-months, we have witnessed some of the worst human created and natural disasters in the world. An AirAsia Airbus A320 crashing into the Java Sea destroying 160 lives; the tragic m...Published: 15 May 2015 at 08:57hrs | 3008 | by Welshman Ncube
British credulity about source of Zimbabwean amorphous politics
The British Police in London arrested Martin Chinyanga an MDC demonstrator who stormed the Zimbabwean embassy in London demanding the release of Itai Dzamara. Arthur Molife, a Zapu official in London ...Published: 01 Apr 2015 at 10:34hrs | 2276 | by Rakanga Danble
Mushayakarara buried
A former senior civil servant, banker, economist and business executive, Mr Elisha Mushayakarara, who succumbed to cancer of the colon, has been buried at Greendale cemetery in Harare this Thursday af...Published: 19 Feb 2015 at 18:55hrs | 3661 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, A Sometimes Necessary Demon!!!
No body that I know likes Mugabe, not even his wife or children. Surprisingly and honestly, Mugabe, in his inner soul does not like himself or the results of his work. He is a demon who does not like ...Published: 20 Dec 2014 at 05:35hrs | 5484 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Chikasha's ADP, Gukurahundi and Genuine Change needed in Zimbabwe
It is quite healthy for a Shona mouth in the form of Chikasha to kick off her ADP party by reminding Mugabe to publicly apologise for Gukurahundi killings. Let me be very quick to describe myself ...Published: 27 Aug 2014 at 11:43hrs | 3425 | by Ryton Dzimiri
The impoverished police, army and general citizens must strike together
For tens of thousands of years in the dark and uncertain jungles of Africa, our great Ancestors have faced difficult challenges of dangerous wild animals, invasions by brute foreigners and drough...Published: 30 Mar 2014 at 10:48hrs | 3001 | by Rakanga Danble
The best reply to Mugabe from Dabengwa
Comrade Dabengwa must just compile a bullet point based set of changes that Mugabe must implement before expecting genuine unity to take effect.Here is how the...Published: 23 Dec 2013 at 07:20hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri
British Immigration Policy highly racist
Theresa May is not professional in her job but desperately seeks to make a name by means of pleasing the mob. Professionals do not format policies to please the mob but rather look at real facts surro...Published: 13 Jul 2013 at 03:50hrs | 3867 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Colonialism, normalcy demise and Zimbabwean diaspora compensation
Britain and Robert Mugabe are Guilty of Zimbabwean Diasporean loss of a normal family life of and I shout that from Britain.Zimbabwean Diasporeans are reduced to second class citizens who are ...Published: 01 Jun 2013 at 06:32hrs | 3018 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Economic development for Rhodesia
With the rapid development of the Rhodesian economy, despite sanctions. the need to involve black Rhodesians more closely became paramount, so that they could form an integral part of this development...Published: 29 May 2013 at 06:10hrs | 2206 | by Business reporter
Dear President Dumiso Dabengwa
No living Hero of the Zimbabwean Liberation struggle deserves respect like you in my beloved country. This statement cannot be translated and tagged as a tribal song of praise because I, the wri...Published: 29 Sep 2012 at 04:50hrs | 3030 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Their bones shall rise
LAST Wednesday, the High Court in Bulawayo ruled that the exhumation of thousands of bodies dumped in disused mineshafts at Chibondo by the Rhodesians during the liberation war, be discontinued....Published: 13 Apr 2011 at 10:17hrs | 850 | by Alex Kanengoni
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