THE most important aspect of any country’s survival is its history.
It is from history that we open avenues for a better tomorrow.
Enduring legacies are founded on the basis of the past.
Conquests, heroism and unwavering ideologies reside in history.
Great narratives of a nation find themselves...
THE proliferation of illegal private schools in the capital, as revealed by the Minister of State for Harare Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Tafadzwa Muguti, is disturbing.
Harare alone has 400 such rogue small private schools.
And the picture becomes even grimmer to imagine that there are...
LET us all think about 2022 and our objectives for the year. We want development and more development in our country, but we have a serious problem that must be nipped in the bud.
The mismanagement and looting in our institutions are symptoms of the...
THERE are some valuable lessons to learn from the gallant performance of the Warriors in a losing cause against Africa’s top ranked side, Senegal, in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Group B opening match on Monday.
Fears were that the Lions of Teranga,...
OUR detractors often hold the mistaken view that the Second Chimurenga and the Land Reform Programme, which we consider the Third Chimurenga, were some spontaneous explosions without a historical past.
They saw these struggles as some violent processes against whites who were predestined to hold...
AS the Western-backed MDC Alliance and civic society organisations appear to be losing ground in their battle for regime change, some British legislators have come out misdirecting their frustration by blasting the ZANU PF Government, accusing it of bad governance.
Of course, whenever the West...
I HAVE talked, in the past, about the grundnorm, which is the spirit that binds a nation together.
As I write, so much is happening amidst our efforts to revive our nation and transform our fortunes.
Naturally, there are those who are not sleeping to ensure...
THIS year, our commemoration of the Chimoio genocide of November 23 1977 coincided with President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s plea for national unity at the burial of yet another liberation war hero Cde Simon Khaya Moyo.
On this day in 1977, thousands of our brave sons and...
The Trial of Nehanda
By Major Special Matarirano (RTD)
Published by Billionaire Publishers (2021)
ISBN: 978-1-77929-366-4
THE TRIAL OF MBUYA NEHANDA is a fictionalised play based on the historic 1896 trial and subsequent execution of Charwe, the medium of Nehanda, on April 27 1898.
In the play, the writer...
THE story in the agricultural sector is heartwarming and encouraging, it is one worth celebrating.
The agricultural sector has surpassed the initial 2025 target of US$8,2 billion per year as it hits US$8,19 billion in 2021.
It is reported that our agricultural industry grew by 36,2...
Editorial comment
MOST non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Zimbabwe that masquerade as champions of ‘human rights and democracy’ have turned out to be fronts for Western donors determined to effect regime change in this country by hook or by crook
Over the years, so-called Private Voluntary Organisations...
By Dr Tafataona Mahoso
THE assumption that at some point before the land revolution in Zimbabwe this country used to be the ‘breadbasket of Africa’ is repeated so often that it has become a household belief.
It is uttered so ften and so carelessly that it...
