COVID-19 lockdowns are being re-imposed across the world as cases surge past 13 million and the death toll nears 600 000.
According to figures from Johns Hopkins University, COVID-19 cases soared by more than a million globally in just five days as the numbers continue...
WHEN the English Premier League resumed last month after a three-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all players had “Black Lives Matter” inscriptions on the back of their shirts instead of the traditional names in the opening round of games.
They have continued to...
Zimbabwean students and former students who attended private schools are creating social media pages to share some of the stories that the black community faced at these schools.
The social media pages come at a time when the world has been talking more about racism...
By Eunice Masunungure
JUNETEENTH, which marks June 19 1865, when a Union General arrived in Galveston, Texas, US, and informed slaves they were free, is sullied by racial injustices as signified by race-based attacks abroad and instanced in Group ‘A’ schools in Zimbabwe.
This was two...
By Patience Rusare
ON May 13, embattled MDC MP Joanna Mamombe and party colleagues Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova were allegedly abducted after staging a demonstration in Harare’s Warren Park Suburb.
The trio were found almost 48 hours later, dumped at Muchapondwa shops in Musana, Bindura...
By Eunice Masunungure
WHEN the UK anti-racism protesters toppled the statue of the 17th Century slave trader, Edward Colston, on June 8 2020, another mark was added to the subversive abolition narratives against Western supremacy which manifested variously in slavery and colonialism and are still...
By Patience Rusare
LAST week, when a white double-murder suspect Sebastian Arzadon was arrested in Lawrence County, US, officers gave him water and dressed his wounds.
Within minutes, social media users couldn’t help, but notice the difference in police treatment in Tennessee, despite the gravity of...
By Eunice Masunungure
WHEN the UK anti-racism protesters toppled the statue of the 17th Century slave trader, Edward Colston, on June 8 2020, another mark was added to the subversive abolition narratives against Western supremacy which manifested variously in slavery and colonialism and are still...
By Tonderai Muponda
AMERICA has so often put itself on a pedestal as a beacon of hope and the very essence of the righteous pursuit of higher ideals.
This ‘shining city on a hill’ mantra is eloquently espoused by former President Ronald Reagan in a speech...
By Patience Rusare
THE wave of protests in American cities after the murder of George Floyd should not come as a surprise.
On May 25, Africa Day (pun intended), Minneapolis police officers murdered an unarmed 46-year-old blackman.
To many, the uprisings following the brutal killing of Floyd,...
HAVING celebrated Africa Day on Monday, May 25 2020, it is prudent that we take stock of what the continent has achieved or otherwise, since the formation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now African Union (AU), on May 25 1963.
It is the...
By Dr Tafataona Mahoso
CONTINUING to tell the story of Zimbabwe’s struggle to claim, re-launch and defend its own money, we start this week by referring to two stories: ‘Zimbabwe dollar under siege again’, The Sunday Mail, May 24 2020; and ‘Civil Servants in fresh...
