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...
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...
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...
‘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...
JOSHUA NKOMO, Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole, Hebert Chitepo, Robert Mugabe and Bishop Abel Muzorewa are all dead now.
Their combined lives spanned 102 years and the death of the last of them (Mugabe) in 2019 marked the end of an era; the era of patriotic front...
IN recent weeks, Newsday has been irate about, berating and denigrating, the accreditation of war veterans of the liberation struggle; lobbying and insisting they should not get any assistance, that they are dumb tools of ZANU PF and a dire threat to the economy,...
RUINS of the Great Zimbabwe, situated on the edge of the Zimbabwe plateau just as it starts to descent to the lowlands in the east, provides archaeological evidence of an early, sophisticated civilisation that grew from wealth and power.
Working with non-written sources, much of...
BRITISH colonial governments across the world felt it their patriotic obligation to contribute forces to defend the British Empire from German Nazism which postulated not just the white supremacy already flaunted by all European imperialism but actively believed in German supremacy over all races.
They...
THE Portuguese enjoyed active commercial and political control with the Mwenemutapa Kingdom by the middle of the 16th Century and had established warehouses and trading centres up the Zambezi River both at Sena and Tete.
However, there was continuing tension between the Portuguese and the...
INSTEAD of reparation and reconciliation following a long ugly history, racism narratives are still being written, furiously and consistently, as signified by the recent race-based slaughter of people of colour in the US.
On May 14 2022, an 18-year-old US Caucasian, Payton Gendron, opened fire...
PRIOR to the start of the 15th Century, a group from the Korekore royal clan, the renowned stone masons, occupied, in substantial numbers, the south-west of what is now Zimbabwe.
Symbolic of their power and prestige was the massive elliptical stone structure of MaDzimbahwe that...
JOCK, Ian Smith’s father, migrated to Rhodesia in 1898.
That was at the end of the First Chimurenga when white settlers were being offered lucrative terms to come and occupy land taken by force of arms from Zimbabweans.
The idea was to grow a majority white...
