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...
THE more Felix Muchemwa met with leaders of the armed struggle, Comrades Chitepo, Tongogara and others, the more impatient he became to join others in the bush.
He had it in his heart and mind to join the struggle after he completed his medical studies.
“We...
PLAYING politics, sabotaging the economy and manipulating technology and just being confused are some of the terms that best describe social media activists like Team Pachedu, one Mmusi Maimane and their ilk.
Team Pachedu was at it again, attempting to mobilise people to stay away...
By Emmanuel Koro, Johannesburg, SA
A US-based ivory expert has dismissed fears that if the UN international wildlife trade regulating agency CITES uses socio-economic factors to determine the threat to any species it will compromise ‘the ‘science’ applied to the analysis’.
The ivory expert, who manages the Los Angeles-based...
THE Kingdom of Mapungubwe (a colonial corruption of its original Korekore name Mapungu Ebwe – Eagle’s Rock) was the first in a series of sophisticated Korekore trade States developed and began to dominate the region trading in gold, ivory and copper for cloth and...
I HAD just arrived at Pasichigare Camp, still so new in the struggle, just a few days in the struggle.
I was still discovering my environs, just roaming about.
I went up the escarpment, up the hill where the camp defence was mounted.
I was entranced; there...
THE legacy of Cecil John Rhodes came with scholarships comprising the Rhodes Scholarship and the Rhodes University College in South Africa.
Established through the will of Rhodes in 1902, the Rhodes scholarship became the first international postgraduate scholarship programme in the world.
It aimed to identify and bring together...
IN sub-Saharan Africa, concurrently with the early-to- late Middle Ages in Europe and elsewhere, there was the development and rise of the Munhumutapa Kingdoms of the royal Korekore rulers.
Tracing the veins of economic power in the ancient people and tribes of Zimbabwe in their...
MBUYA Nehanda was murdered by the British imperialists on April 27 1898.
They hanged her for leading the Chimurenga war of liberation.
The British Crown is responsible for her death.
She told them her bones would rise and drive them out.
It is a truism.
It came to pass.
At...
CHRISTIANS have a huge role in shaping society, but they first need to work on their characters in order for them to make an impact on communities, Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo said.
Justice Matanda-Moyo is the chairperson of the Zimbabwe Anti- Corruption Commission (ZACC).
She was addressing...
ZIMBABWE is granite country.
Granite is solid.
Granite is hard.
Granite is durable.
Granite stands for something that cannot easily pass away.
It is the stone from which Zimbabwe derives its name.
For that reason, Zimbabwe means ‘house of stone’ and, it is a name that comes with connotations of...
‘KANA pfuti dzichirira
Dzinondifungisa musha
Dzinondifungisa musha wakanaka
WeZimbabwe
Torai mortar
Ne kanyau
Tiendevo kuZimbabwe
Zvinondifungisa musha
Wakanaka weZimbabwe
Vana Baba
Vana Mai
Tiendevo kuZimbabwe
Zvinondifungisa musha
Wakanaka weZimbabwe.’
So sang freedom fighters and the masses at the burial of a great freedom fighter, Cde Alexander ‘Gora’ Kanengoni.
He died at age 64 after serving Zimbabwe illustriously during the...
