IT was sometime towards the middle of July 1975.
The place was Vila Pery Garrison, a large cantonment on the edge of a small town by the same name.
It is now known as Chimoio, the capital of Manica Province.
FRELIMO (Frente le Libertacao de Mozambique) soldiers,...
FACTS do not lie nor do they sensationalise nor romanticise.
To go forward without stumbling or falling into pits we have to constantly look back where we are coming from.
In our beloved country, it starts and ends with the land — with many foreigners interested...
By Rutendo Matinyarare
THE problem we have in Zimbabwe is; we have a new generation of people who think they are educated and thus they don’t acknowledge that Zimbabwe is a sacred country — nyika ine varidzi (a country with a creator and spiritual overseers).
They...
WE, in the village, are not just content with ownership and control but value our spirituality and true identity — avo ndiChirandu, avoMhofu, avoNgara.
In the village there is no mistaking who we are and what we represent.
On all fronts — mining, agriculture and manufacturing...
EDITOR — ALLOW me space in your paper to mourn one of my former Dream Team favourite player Rahman Allen Thuthani Gumbo who died on November 10 2023 from a heart attack in Francistown at the age of 59.
I will miss this cool and...
By Shephard Majengeta
WHEN I look around and see the various economic activities being done, I am convinced gone is the era of the ‘traditional industry’.
By creating an enabling environment, the Second Republic has further broadened the base for job creation.
We are a blessed nation.
Today,...
By Prof Artwell Nhemachena
CAUTION used to be the watchword among Africans who lived on the colonial frontiers centuries ago.
However, in the 21st Century, caution is often readily thrown to the wind.
The proposal for a WHO Pandemic Treaty was made in 2020 by the President...
By Mupakamiso Makaya and Tapiwa Bere
THE development of a new Bio-warfare Act is an opportunity for all of us to contribute to the imminent management and protection of Zimbabwe; its people, plants and animals, from the potential onslaught of biological threats, whether naturally occurring or...
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...
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...
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...
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...
