By Prof Artwell Nhemachena
This article was originally presented as a lecture at the University of South Africa Decoloniality Summer School on January 15-19 2024
THE advent of convergent or disruptive technologies and decoloniality has to be future-oriented precisely because the empire itself is shape-shifting even...
TWO critical issues set to determine the future of Zimbabwe and the UK’s fractured relations bring to the fore the latter’s reckless policy on Harare.
The UK has, in recent times, been unsuccessfully trying to strike a balance between maintaining its hostility towards Zimbabwe and,...
By Dereck Goto
THE former leader of CCC, Nelson Chamisa, has abandoned ship.
After a tumultuous two years, marked by destructive ‘strategic ambiguity’, Chamisa has left his supporters and lieutenants in a state of uncertainty. His resignation statement, filled with blame and accusations against various entities...
This article was presented as a lecture at the University of South Africa Decoloniality Summer School on January 15-19 2024
By Professor Artwell Nhemachena
LADIES and gentlemen, colleagues and friends, it is my honour to stand before you to speak about matters of ignorance in relation...
EDITOR — WESTERN nations have thrown their support behind Israel’s actions in Palestine while simultaneously condemning South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), dubiously asserting that the case lacks merit. Prominent nations, including the US, the UK and Germany, have unequivocally...
WE, in the village, value education so much that we make it a point that every child in the community goes to school, without fail.
Since the country’s attainment of independence in 1980, significant efforts have been made to ensure every community has a school.
The...
By Binyavanga Wainaina
ALWAYS use the word ‘Africa’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘safari’ in your title.
Subtitles may include the words: ‘Zanzibar’, ‘Masai’, ‘Zulu’, ‘Zambezi’, ‘Congo’, ‘Nile’, ‘Big’, ‘Sky’, ‘Shadow’, ‘Drum’, ‘Sun’, or ‘Bygone’.
Also useful are words such as guerillas’, ‘timeless’, ‘primordial’ and ‘tribal’.
Note that ‘people’ means...
By Shephard Majengeta
VISION 2030 of an upper-middle income economy will be realised.
However, the journey, naturally, will not be an easy one.
The path to Vision 2030 is fraught with challenges and one of the biggest ones is ‘extra lessons’ in schools.
While ‘extra lessons’ are a...
The abridged story of Cde Thula Bopela
AS a young man in the early 1960s, South African liberation struggle fighter Thula Bopela sacrificed his boyhood dream of becoming a lawyer to follow his duty as a Zulu man to be a warrior against apartheid.
Bopela joined...
EDITOR’S NOTE
WE begin another new year and are presented yet another opportunity to work for the motherland.
Since the inception of the Second Republic, we have recorded growth every year.
In the Second Republic are servants we trust to guide the nation in the face of...
COMMENT
A DEFINING feature of the liberation era was the determination never to lose sight of the goals of the struggle, despite the birth pangs which were an inclusive painful necessity.
Nothing was ever handed to us on a silver platter.
And to succeed, everything had to...
WE, in the village, are grateful for yet another year to do better, to grow and contribute more to the motherland.
As a people, as a nation, we must take stock — it is imperative that we pause and reflect.
As much as we value our...
