Tokwe-Mukosi Flooding Disaster: A Big Scandal Downplayed
By Golden Maunganidze President Robert Mugabe last week declared state of national disaster in the Tokwe -Mukosi reservoir catchment basin as floods continue to wreck havoc
View ArticleThe Meaning Of Security To African Women
By Rosebell Kagumire, Kampala Mention African women and security, and thoughts likely dash to the many wars, past and present, across the continent. This is because
View ArticleZimbabwe Traverses A Rough Political Terrain
By Jeffrey Moyo Harare, Mar 24 2014 - Leroy Muzamani from Zimbabwe’s low income suburb, Highfield, sits with his chin resting on his hands. Dressed in a
View ArticleZimbabwe@34: Base, Superstructure and Democratic Posterity
By Takura Zhangazha Considerations on Zimbabwe’s independence rarely acknowledge the significant role the success of the liberation struggle owed to Socialism/Marxism. Both as an ideological premise
View ArticleAfrica Day 2014: Remain Optimistic and Act in Pursuit of Revolutionary...
By Takura Zhangazha Harare May 24, 2014 -It’s a hard ask, sometimes, trying to refer to a revolutionary Africa in contemporary times. Even more-so, when it
View ArticleCde Dzino: "Not A Minute Without The People" (We Salute You!)
By Takura Zhangazha My first encounter with the late Cde Wilfred Mhanda or Cde Dzino as he was and will always be affectionately known by many,
View ArticleNathan Shamuyarira - The Humble Giant
By John Gambanga It would be amiss for anyone to profile black journalism in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe without mentioning the key role that the late Dr
View ArticleMDC Factions’ Fights over Victims of Political Violence Tragic, Symptomatic...
By Takura Zhangazha I read with great sadness, a story that appeared in a local daily, The Newsday, about the two MDC factions having a public
View ArticleMorgan Tsvangirai Reflections: The Quest For Power: Propping One’s Credentials
By Paidamoyo Muzulu Blowing one’s trumpet is not the hallmark of good leadership be it in business or politics. However, In Zimbabwe it is the en
View ArticleWill Married Priests Solve the Vocations Problem? The Dangers and Challenges...
By Fr Dwight Longenecker Married priests? I am one. As a former Anglican minister, I have been ordained as a Catholic priest under a special measure
View ArticleFrom Prisoners Of War To Prisoners Of Filthy
By Nhau Mangirazi Kadoma, July 12, 2014 - A blocked sewer system with a stench smell greets any visitor in the dusty road of Kadoma town’s
View ArticlePost Mazowe Endorsement: Will Grace Succeed Robert Mugabe?
By Walter Marwizi July 27, 2014-On April 6, The Standard carried a lead story: Grace Mugabe eclipses Mujuru, Mnangagwa which for the first time revealed that
View ArticleZviri Kufaya: Zimbabwe’s Hope Lies In Diaspora
An online war is raging between Zimbabweans in the diaspora and those that are based at home. Characterised by humorous short videos popularly known as vines,
View ArticleZanu (PF): Masters Of Rigging
By Dumisani Muleya The just-ended Zanu (PF) youth and women’s league elections ahead of the party’s congress in December have further exposed its flawed internal processes
View ArticleZimbabwe's Chairing of SADC: In from the Cold and an Attempt at Normalcy.
By Takura Zhangazha For the first time since the Southern African Development Coordination Conference became the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in 1992, Zimbabwe hosts the latter’s
View ArticleTsholotsho, Mazowe: Where Zanu (PF) Kingmakers Met To Decide
By Paidamoyo Muzulu Wily Zanu (PF) members have not forgotten anything about the infamous Dinyane meeting, also known as the Tsholotsho Declaration, in factional fights to
View ArticleZimbabwe State Journalists Protect, Not Expose, Corrupt Politicians
By Makusha Mugabe Zimbabwean state media editors, their hands already with full trying to spin that Zimbabwe is now coming out of its doldrums following some
View ArticleFare Thee Well Thomas Deve
By Fred Zindi The death of arts critic, journalist and Pan Africanist Thomas Deve last Sunday robbed the nation of a man of many talents. I
View ArticleWho Is TB Joshua?
The church building that collapsed in Lagos last week, killing dozens of people, was owned by one of Nigeria's best-known evangelists, TB Joshua. The BBC's
View ArticleZim’s Academic Glitter Going Down The Drain
Zanu PF luminaries seem to be falling over each other to acquire advanced university degrees which are in many cases the product of patronage rather
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