admin(UNDER THE EAVES with Igomombe) Zimbabwe: Fighting over our mother’s breast
since there are so many impious hands on Zimbabwe’s internal affairs, so many hands challenging its sovereignty, I thought my opening paragraphs should address those meddlesome, self-righteous foreigners who think Zimbabwe incurably remains a white man’s burden. Well, it isn’t, never has agreed to be, even though white-occupied and traumatised for nearly a century. Even though it faces a real risk of resurgent neo-colonialism after almost four decades of formal freedom. Not many realise that the Rhodes and Lugards of the imperialist colonial world continue to lurk and live, albeit under different guises and titles, and always invoking different arguments to legitimise their claim and hold over us. They have sought to modernise and re-issue colonial histories, to neatly re-package them using different lexicon and lingo, to make our continuing vassalage direly needful, urgently desirable and cheerfully borne, indeed reckoned as a benchmark to modernity.
UPDATED – Focus now on the economy: ED
President Mnangagwa yesterday said the July 30 harmonised elections represented maturing entrenchment of democratic traditions and values in Zimbabwe.
Grace Mugabe PhD: Nyagura suspended
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Challenges for Chamisa’s SA lawyers
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Byo bids Mathuthu farewell
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Concourt must be free to decide: Acting President
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Chamisa in dilemma
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EDITORIAL COMMENT: US move should not detract Zim on economic revival
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UPDATED: Prophet blows cover on $1m gold theft
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Gems in historic maiden World Cup appearance
Sikhumbuzo Moyo, Acting Sports Editor THE Zimbabwe netball team wrote their own piece of history after a 58-42 victory over Kenya in Lusaka, Zambia yesterday to book a maiden appearance…