By Golden Guvamatanga
THERE was nothing new or extraordinary about the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference pastoral letter that was released recently except that it sought, with no success, to breathe life into the 2006 failed attempt by some sections of the church to actively and...
EVERY year in August, it is tradition for Zimbabweans to gather around various shrines across the country on Heroes’ Day in memory of the gallant sons and daughters who shed their blood to liberate Zimbabwe from colonial rule.
Heroes’ Day celebrations are not just a...
By Eunice Masunungure
NARRATIVES of achievements of African warriors are often misrepresented.
For instance, narrations of Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle are suffocated by Rhodesian writings.
One would think Rhodesians won the war while in reality they were walloped by the indigenes, in the battle field; never mind the...
WE celebrate our Heroes’ Day on Monday, August 9, this time without the usual pomp and fanfare because of the restrictions brought about by the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
But this should not mean the significance of this great day is lost in any way.
It is...
KUVE munyaradzi, is what it means and what it meant to be a freedom fighter.
You saw what was wrong, you saw the suffering of your people, your heart broke and you decided to offer your life, so that others might be free, might have...
WHEN people talk of Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle, many picture men in military fatigues, wielding rifles and dodging bullets and bombs from Rhodesian forces.
Some call these men ‘guerillas’, ‘comrades’ or ‘vanamukoma’.
While these men played a crucial role in the liberation struggle, women who were also...
By Eunice Masunungure
THE agreement between the Government and representatives of former white commercial farmers signed end of July 2020 at State House in Harare, showing that the later will receive US$3,5 billion in compensation to improvements on land, is not a guarantee that the...
THE morning of Friday 24 July 2020 brought with it sad news that Tanzanian former President Benjamin William Mkapa aged 81 had passed on.
He was the country’s third president after independence from Britain in 1962.
Ruling the East African country for two terms from 1995...
ONCE more a dark cloud hovers over us.
The nation has lost another illustrious citizen, a talented and hardworking son of the soil, Cde Perence Shiri.
He has departed to the yonder world to join the constellation of Zimbabwe’s finest.
We do not mourn him.
We celebrate him;...
...who qualified to carry out the suicide mission?
AIR Marshall Perence Shiri left for Tete and briefed Cde Tungamirai and Mark Dube of the decision to attack the Salisbury Fuel Depot.
“After the briefing, Cde Tungamirai instructed us to go to Tembwe and identify comrades who...
This story was originally published on July 3 2014.
IT was while standing in for the late national hero Josiah Tungamirai, the ZANLA High Command’s political commissar that Air Marshal Perence Shiri, the current (then) commander of Zimbabwe Air force, found himself among the legendary...
WHEN ZANU PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa reminded US
Ambassador Brian Nichols and other diplomats who continuously poke their noses into the country’s internal affairs that Zimbabwe is a sovereign state, he was putting across a message that should now be accompanied with action.
This is...
