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...
IT is really worrying how many in our communities are disregarding measures to contain COVID-19.
Currently, there is no vaccine for the prevention or treatment of the illness caused by the virus; its origins and the ultimate extent of this epidemic remain unknown.
It is very...
THE key takeaway from the palpable anger and fury that was exhibited by the US, the EU and some Western countries over the arrest of ‘journalist’ Hopewell Chin’ono and organiser of the July 31 2020 violent demonstrations Jacob Ngarivhume on Monday, was that it...
By Eunice Masunungure
SUBMISSIONS by beleaguered MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti, who was one of the panelists on an on-line event organised by a US think-tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) under the theme ‘The Fight for Democracy and Public Health’ on...
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...
