LAST week we noted that the first challenge Zimbabweans face in relation to the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (Zim-ASSET) blueprint is the lack of knowledge on what exactly Zim-ASSET is.
The second challenge is the language in which the document is written,...
AS South Africa emerges from last week’s hectic electoral period, there are several considerations that need to be given urgent attention by President Jacob Zuma’s administration especially in the context of the fulfilment of the goals of the liberation struggle.
In the first instance, is...
CHISHAWASHA was the spiritual centre for the B.S.A. Company during Chimurenga risings.
It played a significant role in the hanging of our ancestors.
Jesuits were spiritual instructors for the Company.
Their role was to denounce our religion and ‘prepare’ our ancestors for hanging.
Chishawasha...
SO began his life at the rear, in Mozambique.
It was difficult, there was only one meal a day, sometimes there was so little food each person could only get a certain number of mangai, that is boiled maize grain. He recalls a time...
OUR Grade Three teacher walked into our classroom whereupon deathly silence immediately followed.
He stood facing the class in silence.
It was so for a good minute.
He then broke the silence reminding the class that the length of this past silence was an...
THE Moors were an African people and the word ‘moor’ literally means ‘black.’
These black people of Europe were popular among the whites because they brought with them commodities that had never been heard of in Europe.
Today black people who reside or visit...
EDITOR – THE National Schools Rugby Festival has continued to grow, but the most notable error is that sponsors have maintained the syndrome of keeping the tournament elitist.
Despite rural and developing communities playing a significant role in promoting operations of these sponsors, their children...
EDITOR – I HATE to admit it, but Mandiitawepi Chimene was right.
Like others, I always thought her noise about exhuming Cecil John Rhodes’ remains at Matopos and sending them back to England was uncalled for, but I was wrong.
Your newspaper has made...
Chatham Report... Nothing new
THE recent London-based Chatham House Report on Zimbabwe titled: Zimbabwe’s International Re-engagement - The Long Haul to Recovery is premised on several disputable assumptions.
As a Royal Institute of International Affairs to promote analysis and debate on how to build a prosperous...
By Golden Guvamatanga
and Netho Francisco
THE latest Chatham House Report on Zimbabwe, which in all appearance seems to be warming up to the ZANU PF-led Government, is nothing, but a new strategy in the effort to effect regime change in the country.
It is a...
THE recent ‘honour’ bestowed on Zimbabwe for the World Best Tourist Destination For 2014 and Favourite Cultural Destination for 2014 by the European Union (EU) left a lot of questions on the motives of the regional bloc.
It is the same EU that...
A UNITED States International non-governmental organisation (NGO) by the name of National Endowment for Democracy (NED) could have enabled the hosting of a Zimbabwe-West re-engagement seminar at a local hotel early this week.
NED describes itself as a private, non-profit foundation dedicated to the growth...
