THE controversial decision by FIFA to ban Zimbabwe from all international football activities until the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) lifts its suspension on the Felton Kamambo-led ZIFA board did not come as a surprise but was confirmation that the world governing body which...
The story of Cde Willie Mazarura aka Cde Mazarura Hondo
IN February, 1977 upon my deployment to the war front after completing military training at Chimoio in Mozambique, I was involved in an attack of the enemy that would go into the history annals.
We victoriously...
THE liberation struggle left an unparalleled legacy in so many areas, the education sector is no less endowed.
There is a dream which the founding fathers of Zimbabwe held close to their hearts, a dream which they knew was the anti-thesis of capitalism.
It was a...
THE suggestion has already been made to view this series on black US ambassadors accredited to Zimbabwe as a most saddening case-study of ‘self-hate’.
It has also already been established that of the 15 ambassadors the US has accredited to Zimbabwe since independence in 1980,...
IN East Asia, there are many words that are of African origin.
These stand as evidence that there were once Africans inhabiting that land.
Many Chinese words sound like chiShona without as much stressing of vowels and some seem to be halved versions of Shona words.
For...
By Emmanuel Koro,
in Johannesburg, SA
HOW is the new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett going to react when he learns that Africa’s number one wildlife enemy is ‘hidden’ inside Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority (INPA)?
What’s more, that enemy holds US citizenship.
He also identifies himself as...
WHY is it that the alleged Nelson Chamisa assassination attempt coincided with the visit of the UN special rapporteur on the Negative Impact of Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Enjoyment of Human Rights, Alena Douhan, from October 18 to 28 2021?
Chamisa tweeted on October...
WHITES, we have argued in the past and will say it again, have been ‘superior’ not because they possess any greater or special mental powers, but for the simple reason that they have mastered the art of presenting themselves as gods and have found...
Editorial comment
NELSON Chamisa’s variant of what is left of the MDC is notorious for attention-seeking theatrics to coincide with regional, continental and international events and visits by delegates from these organisations.
The current visit by UN Special Rapporteur on the Negative Impact of Unilateral Coercive...
THIS series invokes black people’s ‘self-evident’ right to a point of view ‘not prescribed’ by USAID to Africa but personal lived experience.
It is not a position of wishful thinking but one enshrined in the UN Universal Human Rights Charter of 1948.
The preamble states that...
AS the world’s population, expected to reach nine billion by the mid-21st Century, continues to rise, FAO estimates that 60 percent more food is required by 2050 to sustain the rapidly-growing world population.
Between 2010-2012, FAO reported almost 870 million people were chronically undernourished –...
JUST as the settlers, some of whom were social misfits, outcasts of societies, there were many reasons for missionaries to travel to Africa.
The Christian churches’ mooted approach to contacts with ‘less-developed’ peoples in Africa and the Americas carried over from conflicts with Muslims the...
