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Patriotic front formations: Part 21…David Coltart and the birth of Umthwakazi

IT is important to take special note that Mutambara was president of the Student Representative Council of the University of Zimbabwe in 1988 and 1989.  He led anti-Government student activities in those years. In that respect, it is not far-fetched to say that his Rhodes Scholarship was...

Black skin, white masks:Part Three …the ultimate sacrifice

WE celebrate Day of the African Child, June 16, a most heroic moment for the continent.  During this period, we also wish to cherish the heroism of the masses of Zimbabwe as we refuse to accept what NewsDay accuses, that the masses are pawns in...

Money and the pursuit of wealth: Part 23…Venetians throw caution to the wind

ALL the while, Venice’s wealth expanded.  In political structures, Venice was beginning to resemble a modern corporation more than a feudal State. The Great Council of Venice was dominated by a hereditary commercial oligarchy, as was the Senate, and the doge (the executive) followed the...

Patriotic front formations: Part 20…legacy of sponsored education

AT this juncture, it is important to note that while the patriotic front cast admittedly had enormous problems using missionary education (meant to subvert) to define the liberation struggle from the same, those mentored to use the Rhodes Scholarship to fight African self-determination as...

Black skin, white masks:Part Two

TODAY we dedicate this article to celebrate the lives to two greatest patriots, the guerilla medical practitioner Retired Brigadier General  Comrade Dr  Muchemwa who left us on June 13 2016 at 71 and the legend of Chesa, Comrade Obert Mandizadza Gwerevende, who also joined...

Money and the pursuit of wealth: Part 22…bills of exchange, tally sticks and the Treasury

WHILST the Mwenemutapas in Southern Africa traded with Arabs, Portuguese and other traders, in Europe, with the expansion of trade toward the end of the Middle Ages, ‘Bills of Exchange’ became prevalent. A flourishing Italian wholesale trade in cloth, woolen clothing, wine, tin and other...

Patriotic front formations: Part 19…contradictions in patriotic front formations

IT has already been established that, of the whole patriotic front cast, the one with the clearest and most unambiguous stance (Herbert Chitepo) is the one who lived shortest and the one with the most Western education (Robert Mugabe) is the one who outlived...

Chad raised Africa’s biggest cattle herd …without meds and vaccines and it’s not on Google

ACCORDING to US Department of International Trade, Chad is a very successful African livestock producer that uses traditional means of ranching in a semi-arid environment.  According to numbers by WHO for Animal Health, Chad has the biggest cattle, goat and sheep herd per capita in...

Windfall for campfire communities

By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA CHRISTMAS has certainly come early for Zimbabwe’s hunting communities that are soon going to receive 100 percent payments from international hunting revenue. Under the Communal Areas Management Programme For Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) Programme, international hunting revenue used to be paid to rural...

Patriotic front formations: Part 18…the Chitepo solution was confrontational

OF the whole patriotic front formations cast, the one actor with the clearest and most unambiguous stance (Herbert Chitepo) is the one who lived shortest (52 years). Chitepo turned out to be the most unpredictable outcome of missionary upbringing and missionary education investment. The longer perspective...

Money and the pursuit of wealth: Part 21…the Venetian money changers

ITALIAN cities became the major money centres for 13th and 14th Century Europe.  Those established family firms remained the dominant form of business enterprise until the 18th Century.  There were many more families, however, to which monarchs and businessmen could apply for loans. Their banks (from the Italian word 'banco') developed techniques...

Black skin, white masks: Part Two

‘BABA namai musandicheme  Kana ndafa nehondo....’goes the refrain of one Chimurenga song sang by combatants during the armed struggle. This article is dedicated to the memory of the late National Hero, the late Brigadier-General Felix Muchemwa, the young firebrand who became a guerilla medical practioner and...

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