Dr Michelina Andreucci

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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Air Chief Marshal Perrance Shiri’s connection with the land

THE darkened clouds and cold early sunset of Tuesday, July 28, were foreboding; perhaps...

Native Land Husbandry Act revisited

IN the course of analysing the peasant economy in the pre-irrigation era in the...

Revisiting a horrible Act

INDIGENOUS entrepreneurs in the reserves made concerted effort to survive in an otherwise difficult...

The sweet life: Sugar in Zimbabwe

By Dr Michelina Andreucci WHILE maize is the staple food crop in Zimbabwe, tobacco was...

Rural resistance escalates

By Dr Michelina Andreucci A FIVE-YEAR PLAN was drawn up, which foresaw the transformation of...

Efforts to make profit in Rhodesia

By Dr Michelina Andreucci TO realise better returns on their investments, ‘reserve’ entrepreneurs often evaded...

Forced farming methods in Sanyati

By Dr Michelina Andreucci BY 1963, when the decade-long Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland ended,...

Indigenes denied land rights

UNDER the National Land Husbandry Act (NLHA), land rights were not given to people...

Stiff opposition to land Act

ACCORDING to the secretary-general of the African National Congress (ANC): “For the African nationalists...

The suffocation of Africans

UNDER the Native Land Husbandry Act (NLHA), land in Sanyati, in 1950, was allocated...

Right to land denied

UNDER the Native Land Husbandry Act (NLHA), the size of land holdings was to...

Rhodesia’s forced evictions

THE period 1956-1975 marked the height of the ‘Decentralisation Policy’ debate in the then...

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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...