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Think highly of yourself

AS Zimbabweans, we need to shun the mentality of inferiority complex by being proud of who we are as a people. Our history was written by our colonisers and hence they deliberately left out our past achievements. The truth of the matter is that Zimbabweans have...

An Ambassador’s promising start

 THE validation of our just ended harmonised general elections and the desire to strengthen relations and co-operation with us by the new British Ambassador to Zimbabwe has dealt a fatal blow to the opposition CCC’s cause.  The recent pledge by Ambassador Peter Vowles, to strengthen...

No to white capital

THE problems currently bedevilling Zimbabwe are a result of white capital and, most crucially, requires leaders like President Emmerson Mnangagwa and team to lead the country as well as build its own capital through its own ways. Some of us still fear upsetting the white...

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...

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Leonard Dembo: The untold story 

By Fidelis Manyange  LAST week, Wednesday, April 9, marked exactly 28 years since the death...

Unpacking the political economy of poverty 

IN 1990, soon after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela, while visiting in the...

Second Republic walks the talk on sport

By Lovemore Boora  THE Second Republic has thrown its weight behind the Sport and Recreation...

What is ‘truth’?: Part Three . . . can there still be salvation for Africans 

By Nthungo YaAfrika  TRUTH takes no prisoners.  Truth is bitter and undemocratic.  Truth has no feelings, is...