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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 in Zim: Part Five…the irony of the First Chimurenga

IT is pertinent to state again that the war in Mashonaland started with the...

Patriotic Front formations in Zim: Part Four…first shots of the war

IT has already been stated that in the First Chimurenga, Mashonaland presented a more...

Patriotic Front formations in Zim: Part Three…when the first was broken

AT the first indaba in the Matopos (August 21 1896), Somabulana, the Matabele spokesperson...

Patriotic Front formations in Zim: Part Two…whites’ divisive hand

THE first ‘Patriotic Front’ lasted only a few bloody months.  The enemy was quick to...

Background to Zim’s armed struggle: Part Two…as Rhodesian Front persecuted nationalists

THE African nationalists rejected the outcome of the Constitutional Conference which opened in London...

Background to Zim’s armed struggle…rise of African nationalism

THE end of the Second World War brought with it ‘winds of change’, one...

Black US Ambassadors accredited to Zim: Part Seven‘… will you buy out the white farmers?’

THE Battle of Mavhonde, coming shortly after Mapai, had again dismally failed to strengthen...

Black US Ambassadors accredited to Zim: Part Four…Lanpher represented white interests

IT is David Coltart who brought the International Republican Institute evil into Zimbabwe.  And he...

Black US Ambassadors accredited to Zim: Part Three…why US likes Coltart

THE suggestion has already been made to view this series on black US ambassadors...

Patterns of history…saddening case study of self-hate

THIS series invokes black people’s ‘self-evident’ right to a point of view ‘not prescribed’...

Patterns of history…American ambassadors to Zimbabwe

FROM independence to date, a total of 15 US Ambassadors have been accredited to...

Generations of slavery

THE whole idea of re-visiting slavery of the black African two centuries after its...

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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...