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SADC has spoken

THE August 23/24 harmonised general elections were brought to their logical finality with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Chairperson endorsing them as “...exemplary and a major victory for democracy,” on Monday. President Joao Lourenco of Angola, addressing SADC Heads of State at a virtual...

ZANU PF: It all began in Gweru

ZANU PF is holding its 20th Annual National People’s Conference in Gweru.  And Gweru is significant in many ways, but most importantly, that is where ZANU held its first elective Congress in 1964 after its formation in August 1963. That is when it was cemented that...

SADC not relenting on sanctions

IN a week in which SADC’s focus, and indeed that of the rest of Africa, was on Anti-Sanctions Day, there were some gremlins desperate to divert attention from the major event. At the 39th SADC Summit in 2019, the bloc’s leaders adopted a resolution declaring...

The West remains offside

AS the rest of Africa and the progressive world join Zimbabwe in calling for the removal of sanctions, it is important to remind our young how and why sanctions were imposed. It is crucial to look back in order to understand the thinking of the...

Sanctions a regime change tool

THE US and its Western allies have never wanted to see governments in Southern Africa run by former liberation movements and are prepared to assist in seeing them tossed out of power by any means fair or foul. This is a region overflowing with natural...

Education means empowerment

I VIVIDLY remember, in 2016, when I wrote about plenty opportunities for new graduates.  That was in November.  Seven years down the line, I still maintain that when a person receives an education, he/she is empowered because the idea is to transform him/her into a better...

Mature democracy vs puerile dictatorship

THE recent boycott of the official opening of the First Session of the 10th Parliament which included President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) by CCC MPs is nothing short of grandstanding driven by a puerile approach to national politics. And this was...

We make no apologies

WE are in the month where the voice to remove illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe is amplified. Zimbabwe is a country steadily and successfully getting out of the crisis that was created by the West which wants to own and control its resources. The crisis was...

Vaccination key to rabies prevention

SEPTEMBER 28 is World Rabies Day, a day set aside to highlight the prevalence  of the world’s deadliest infectious disease and how to prevent it through vaccination. Dogs that are commonly seen unattended in our suburbs are the animals most likely to catch rabies and...

Work will make us great

THE summer cropping season is upon us and I urge all farmers to shame our detractors by continuing to do and increase the good work we have recorded in recent years. The success we enjoyed in our political arena, let us extend to the fields...

Unity key to development

NOW that elections are effectively over, it is time for Zimbabweans to work together irrespective of political differences in order to achieve our goals of social and economic development that will see us through to Vision 2030. We take note of recent advice by respected...

Awakening in former French colonies

DID you know that the French history in its former colonies is full of gross injustices? What they called ‘assimilation’ was nothing but a cover of cruelty and exploitation because blacks could never really become French. In Southern Africa, some former British colonies, like Zimbabwe, fought...

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