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Understanding the Mutapa Investment Fund …and why UK sanctions are not targeted

By Rutendo Matinyarare  WE had a very interesting discussion about the MIF #MutapaInvestmentFund. In that debate, it became clear that there is little understanding of what the investment fund is, how it works, how it will be managed and the safeguards around it. It also appeared that...

Accept reality of the liberation struggle

WE, in the village, time and again, revisit the liberation struggle for inspiration.  And it saddens us that there are some constituencies who are refusing to accept the realities and demands of the liberation struggle. The dramas of fake abductions and the lobbying beyond our borders...

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...

We taught whites democracy

EDITOR — DEMOCRACY has never had, does not have, and will never have, a universal meaning.  All sane Zimbabweans know that democracy in this country was brought by ZANU PF. The so-called humanitarian agencies purporting to fight for democracy are mere smoke screens meant to...

New approach to realising Vision 2030

By Shephard Majengeta VISION 2030, of an upper-middle income economy, must be understood in the context of the need to fulfill the aspirations of the liberation struggle. Since the turn of the millennia, Zimbabwe has been implementing indigenisation and economic empowerment programmes seeking to give Zimbabweans...

Reminder to Pope Francis

…restitution not a preserve of the Jews By Nthungo YaAfrika AFRICA does not need platitudes, but implementation of Leviticus 6 verses 1-7: The Lord said to Moses:  “If anyone sins and is unfaithful to the Lord by deceiving a neighbour about something entrusted to them or left...

Money and the pursuit of wealth: Part 31

…tragedy of mixing religion, politics and commerce By Dr Michelina Andreucci  A FRENCHMAN, by the name of Jacques Coeur, who was born in 1395, was one of the leading bankers of the first half of the 15th Century.  The son of a Bruges merchant in the cloth...

Unpacking FIFA’s double standards

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...

ZANLA liberated Matarutse-Mberengwa

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...

ZIMFEP romps home

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...

Black US Ambassadors accredited to Zim: Part Three…why US likes Coltart

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,...

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