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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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Patriotic front formations: Part 17…when Christian education moulded revolutionaries

JOSHUA NKOMO, Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole, Hebert Chitepo, Robert Mugabe and Bishop Abel Muzorewa are...

Patriotic front formations: Part 16…whats good for the goose…

BRITISH colonial governments across the world felt it their patriotic obligation to contribute forces...

Patriotic front formations: Part 15…same cast, different world outlook

JOCK, Ian Smith’s father, migrated to Rhodesia in 1898.  That was at the end of...

Patriotic front formations: Part 14…the paradox of Rhodes’ legacy

THE legacy of Cecil John Rhodes came with scholarships comprising the Rhodes Scholarship and...

Patriotic front formations in Zim: Part 13…illusion of the Rhodesian enterprise

ZIMBABWE is granite country. Granite is solid. Granite is hard. Granite is durable. Granite stands for something that...

Patriotic front formation in Zim: Part 12 …Murenga as rallying point

IF ‘Zimbabwe’ means ‘house of stone’, it gives critical symbolic significance to that material.  And,...

Patriotic front formations in Zim: Part 11…Matopos is the biggest crime scene in the land

THE last part to this series defined the re-naming of Malindidzimu/Matopos as ‘World’s View’...

Patriotic Front formations in Zim: Part 10…aberration as Ndebeles agree to protect Rhodes’ grave

THE burial of homosexual Cecil Rhodes in the Matobo Hills was a watershed in...

Patriotic front formations in Zim: Part Nine…same modus operandi, same contestation 100 years later

THE history of Zimbabwe up to the April 7 1902 desecration of the sacred...

Patriotic Front formations in Zim: Part Eight…as homosexulals defile sacred haven

THE burial of Cecil John Rhodes in our most sacred Matobo Hills on April...

Patriotic Front formations in Zim: Part Seven…subversion of spiritual patriotism

IT is Abrahamic superstition of the Christian religion that informed the decapitation of the...

Patriotic front formations in Zim– Part Six

IT can be rightly said that the war in Matabeleland ended conclusively.  There was a...

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Plot to derail debt restructuring talks

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

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

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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...