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Blacks civilised the East and West

By Nthungo YaAfrika IN this article, I will show that after the destruction of our ancestors’ civilisation by Rome, some Egyptian academics and intellectuals found refuge in the East and carried on what they knew best, improving people’s lives through edifying religion, education and politics...

When victory was nigh

The story of Cde Chrispen Muzeza I WILL never forget how I was tormented by Rhodesians in 1978. I was born in Guruve in 1953 and raised in the farming community of Mutorashanga where my father worked at a farm. Life on the farms was miserable. We...

Lessons from China

By Tawanda Chenana WE, in the village, were very much delighted to hear that Hwange Thermal Power Station’s Unit Seven has come online. This means our foundation as a nation is stronger, for power is key to development. Many thought Unit Seven was a pipe...

Unsung achievements of the Second Republic

EDITOR — THIS is the most encouraging information I have come across as we end the first quarter of the year and would like to share it with fellow citizens who may have missed it. A lot is happening in our country which naysayers...

Decolonising the mind: Part 16 …poised to defend Zimbabwe with our lives

By Abraham Mabvurira   IF our ancestors were able to sacrifice their precious lives to die for Zimbabwe and liberate it from colonial shackles, then nothing can stop their descendants (contemporary Zimbabweans) from defending and protecting Zimbabwe from foreign aggressors who are working in cahoots with...

Black Africans vis-a-vis the pyramid

By Nthungo YaAfrika THERE are two structures on the motherland that the Tambous (white savages) have failed to destroy — the pyramids in the north and the Great Zimbabwe in the south. When the whites defeated our ancestors, after acquiring their knowledge about the universe, they...

ZANLA’s revenge in Murehwa

The story of Cde Chrispen Samuel MY name is Chrispen Samuel and this is my story. I was born at Harare Hospital, now Sally Mugabe Hospital, in Harare, the then Salisbury, in 1953. I grew up in Dzivarasekwa, then known as Gillingham  and went to Gillingham Primary School. Upon completion of...

Decolonising the mind: Part 15 …keeping Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans

By Abraham Mabvurira IN this era of great awakening, African people (and Zimbabweans in particular) must question the presence of American organisations on the motherland. Organisations, such as the Bureau of African Affairs, George Soro’s Open Society Institute of Southern Africa and the National Endowment...

Service to the community a must

By Tawanda Chenana WE, in the village, have a very close affinity to the land. We do not just walk and play on the land, we live off it, we have a symbiotic relationship with it, it sustains us while we nourish it with the sweat...

Let’s all prevent cholera

THE cholera outbreak continues unabated with Matabeleland North and the Midlands being the only provinces that have not reported any cholera cases out of the country’s 10 provinces. So far, 13 African countries have reported cholera outbreaks in 2023; viz South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and...

Whites riding on our ancestors’ glory

By Nthungo YaAfrika IN this article I will replace black with ‘Nahasi’. This is because I view black as demeaning and derogatory because, as a race, our pigment is not black. Only cloned minds view their skin colour as black. Black is a despised colour...

Rhodies ‘taught a lesson’

The story of Cde Heather Chonyera AMONG the freedom fighters who came to my home village for the first time to give us political orientation was Cde Musorowatsomba and Cde Tendai Vadzimu. The meeting held at a Base in the Mashongayika area and the political orientation...

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