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Show some respect, Uncle Sam

Editor's note THE maintaining of sanctions on Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa and First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa comes as no surprise. In global affairs, the concept of paternalism remains a pervasive force, shaping relationships between nations and influencing ‘development’ strategies. Paternalism, defined as the practice of...

We can make or break our Warriors

COMMENT WITH Zimbabwe emerging from the soccer wilderness, after a protracted FIFA ban, we have every reason to believe that our Warriors will not disappoint, provided our soccer administrators put their house in order. Of late, our PSL games have been characterised by poor attendances,...

Black South Africans must learn to appreciate

EDITOR — BLACK South Africans, you may complain about the ANC, but the fact is, the ANC lifted all of you out of poverty and made you the richest Africans. Most of you grew up in abject poverty, in two-roomed homes with uneducated parents who...

President Mnangagwa preaches unity

By Kundai Marunya PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged Zimbabweans to unite and emulate the late National Hero Retired Colonel Kenny Constantine Mabuya, who shunned tribalism. Cde Kenny Ridzai, as Mabuya was affectionately known during the armed struggle, passed away at West End Clinic in Harare on...

We must remain steadfast

IT is heartening to note that, as Zimbabweans, we have all remained steadfast and, most importantly, we have not given up. Our people must know and fully appreciate that, as a nation, we stand on the threshold of greatness and, having come so far, let...

Not another ‘home’ away from home

JUST as we were recovering from the ignominy of ‘hosting’  our recent World Cup home game against Nigeria in the little town of Bature in Rwanda at Huye Stadium, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) inspectors last week descended on us with a bombshell. Both...

2024: Year of plenty

WHILE there are many things to look forward to for the people of Zimbabwe in 2024, most importantly, Government has put in place plans for another year of prosperity; it has already kick-started processes to make it a resounding success.  Since assuming office in 2017,...

Unity Day more than a holiday

Editor's Note With Professor Pfukwa WE celebrate more than three decades of unity. But we have to ask if we really appreciate the meaning of the day or it has just become another holiday; a day we take a break from the grind and mark the end...

Unity Day: Let’s celebrate with caution

COMMENT TODAY, December 22 marks one of the most important holidays, Unity Day,  on the calendar of this country’s  liberation history, as it brought an abrupt halt to hostilities based on tribal grounds then bedevilling our polity. Just after independence, in 1980, some disturbances in Matabeleland...

Africa must control its resources

THE final text at COP 28, Dubai, was able to secure a majority consensus within the 200 attending countries to include language to ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels, which are responsible for nearly 90 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, according to the UN. It...

More manna from Heaven!

THE weekend by-election results turned out to be what Vice-President Dr Constantino Chiwenga had predicted would be like manna from Heaven, as the ruling ZANU PF snatched seven of the nine House of Assembly seats from the opposition CCC. This was after a faction of...

El Nino: Let’s share what we have

I REMEMBER very well that the hallmark of the liberation struggle was care and concern for one another. We survived the protracted struggle not as a result of abundance of resources but because we believed, most importantly, in sharing. This cropping season we will experience a...

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