Dr Ireen Mahamba

Plot to derail debt restructuring talks

THE US has been caught in yet another embarrassing plot to grab the limelight from the country’s 44th Independence celebrations by derailing Harare’s ongoing Zimbabwe Structured Dialogue Platform on Debt Clearance by tasking its officials to bring into the fray issues to do with governance...

US onslaught on Zim continues

By Elizabeth Sitotombe THERE was nothing surprising about Tendai Biti’s decision to abandon the opposition's turbulent  politics by taking a ‘sabbatical’. The CCC has become nothing more than a playground for clueless political nonentities. Indeed, the CCC has not only been drowning in a sea of confusion,...

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We are Africans not Europeans …it is time they left us alone

B He had struggled, with his countrymen, and triumphed against Belgian colonialism. On June 30...

Remembering a legend

NDETANGIRA POI…! News of your passing was unbelievable; for neither mind nor spirit could grasp...

Driven to fight imperialists

“WE were young, very young, and we could not tolerate that a foreign white...

Property rights a venerated euphemism

B ON Thursday, January 11 1973, the first gunshots in Chesa, Mt Darwin, rang out...

Why Lancaster?

By Dr Irene Mahamba “TO those of us who had flown from Rhodesia to cover...

The Covenant with Musikavanhu

By Dr Irene Mahamba WHEN evil takes root in a community, its members must reject...

‘Clothes and water bodies poisoned’

In the last two articles, I detailed the war crimes committed by the Rhodesians...

Cruelty so incomprehensible!

THE above were Rhodesian Hunters diving to bomb Camp C at Tembwe, Mozambique, on...

Rhodesians’ war crime: Part One

“I still remember while it was early in the morning, we wake up and...

The cost of American and European friendship

US CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA)-sponsored Mobutu Sese Seko, ruthlessly deposed revolutionary par excellence Patrice...

Defending the African psyche

LAST week I drew from the Great Indaba (ZIBF Harare 2018) to highlight one...

ZIBF: Indaba rising again!

THIS year’s Harare edition of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) ran from October...

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Plot to derail debt restructuring talks

THE US has been caught in yet another embarrassing plot to grab the limelight...

US onslaught on Zim continues

By Elizabeth Sitotombe THERE was nothing surprising about Tendai Biti’s decision to abandon the opposition's...

Mineral wealth a definition of Independence

ZIMBABWE’S independence and freedom cannot be fully explained without mentioning one of the key...

Let the Uhuru celebrations begin

By Kundai Marunya The Independence Flame has departed Harare’s Kopje area for a tour of...