Nangarai Mahora

Myth of Rhodesia as Africa’s ‘grain basket

THE myth of Rhodesia as the ‘Grain Basket of Africa’ was born out of the 1931 Land Apportionment Act and the 1952 Land Husbandry Act scandals and, it is consistent with the establishment of Rhodesia as ‘a commercial enterprise’, in the words of...

How Pasipamire outran a baboon and won a ticket to the Olympics

By Sheldon Hakata WHILE herding cattle in the remote village of Shariwa, in Bikita, Masvingo Province, some boys came across a troop of baboons and took after them. One boy outdid himself by bolting after one of the baboons and catching it. This, of course,...

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History repeats itself Mr Freeth!

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Do black lives really matter?

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Myth of Rhodesia as Africa’s ‘grain basket

THE myth of Rhodesia as the ‘Grain Basket of Africa’ was born out...

How Pasipamire outran a baboon and won a ticket to the Olympics

By Sheldon Hakata WHILE herding cattle in the remote village of Shariwa, in Bikita, Masvingo...

Cry the wretched of the earth!

By Nthungo YaAfrika THE war between Russia and Ukraine, to conscious and positive spiritually...

Role of the masses in the struggle

THE Second Chimurenga was a protracted guerrilla war (1966-1979) that put paid to white-minority...
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