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Lokassa deserves better

EDITOR – WHAT has gone wrong with us as Africans?  In fact what is really going on in the DRC? Have we lost our respect for the dead?  And what values are we inculcating in our children who are the future generation?  I say so becaue I recently...

Translating sanctions into opportunities

By Shephard Majengete SANCTIONS have been with us for more than two decades. And Zimbabwe should not be discouraged by the illegal economic sanctions imposed by the US, Britain and their allies from achieving economic progress. Zimbabweans must see and use the embargos as a blessing to...

Geopolitics of ignorance: Part One

By Professor Artwell Nhemachena  INDEED, much like nuclear bombs, ignorance is a weapon of mass destruction when it is strategically manufactured and cast to enslave the minds of others. Billions of minds in the 21st Century have stopped dreaming because the masters of ignorance have cultured...

Towards biodefence and strategy

By Mupakamiso Makaya and Tapiwa Bere ON October 3 2023, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, while addressing the First Session of the 10th Parliament of Zimbabwe, implored House of Assembly Members to hasten the matters outstanding from the statutory agenda of the 9th Parliament.  He highlighted the legislative agenda...

Let’s change our software

EDITOR — SADLY, there are some of us who have the hardware of black people (black skin and short hair), but in our heads we have software of the whiteman. And with foreign software we cannot be truly successful; white software will retard our growth...

Self-belief critical to achieving Vision 2030

By Shephard Majengete THERE is a very close relationship between religion and politics that can easily translate to life or death of a race. And, if Africans cannot read this fact, that is exactly what is going to lead to the demise of whatever is left...

Threat to Africa’s health sovereignty …conspiracy theorists and WHO’s envisaged Pandemic Treaty?

By Prof Artwell Nhemachena THE problem of treaties in Africa is that they have historically preceded colonisation and have been used as tools to colonise Africans. Writing about the envisaged Pandemic Treaty, Al Jazeera, on March 30 2021, stated that: “The idea of such a treaty, aimed...

Religion and education setting us back …impediments to the ‘Unity Project’

By Nthungo YaAfrika THE founding fathers have been declared the best our motherland has ever produced, yet they failed to unite the motherland in 1963 and 1965.  This is my post mortem why this was so; and if we continue to worship the whiteman and not...

National agenda demands all our energy

WE, in the village, totally agree that we should build on the gains made in the last five years; that we are standing on terra firma is self-evident and cannot be disputed. “Together, we should be able to agree on a common programme of economic...

Child kidnappers on the prowl

EDITOR – EVERYONE at the scene ended up thanking the boy’s guardian angels after he escaped what could have been his last dance of life.  He (name withheld) was asked by some men in an unregistered beige twin cab, (which could be an SUV) for...

Our destiny is in our own hands

By Shephard Majengeta IT has been argued and proven that culture, and nothing else, is the soul of a nation.  And time and events have shown that those who lose their culture are as good as the dead.  People and civilisations that have disappeared or been swallowed...

Ubuntu/hunhu specs on Western electoral frames: Part One

By Vitalis Ruvando THIS article zooms hunhu/ubuntu lens on global north electoral imperatives, while other narratives may magnify hunhu/ubuntu goggles on  modern African electoral practices. Without doubt there is growing importance of knowledge and innovation in every human endeavor. As a people, as Africans, all our activities...

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