THE indisputably barbaric killing of Muammar Gaddafi last Thursday by a high-tech US drone controlled by some freaky soldier in Las Vegas aided by a French jet fighter assisted by NATO special forces on the ground has been received in … Read more
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Edgar Tekere: the non-compliant warrior
EDGAR Tekere, is no more. Tuesday, June 7, 2011, will remain etched in the story of Zimbabwe as the exit day of one of Zimbabwe’s founding fathers. His place in Zimbabwe’s history is secure but his legacy will occupy the … Read more
Why kingdoms fall
SIR Arnold Toynbee, an Oxford-University educated English historian who taught for years at the University of London came to a most startling and foreboding conclusion sixty years ago. He wrote a twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of world … Read more
Heroes: history has longer memory than Zanu PF thinks
IF THERE was any lingering doubt in the minds of the most ardent Zanu PF zealots that their party had utterly reduced the conferment of national hero status to a mere party spectacle, Didymus Mutasa will have conclusively cleared that. The … Read more
South Africa: the limitations of nationalism
GOD was so generous that he gave mankind dominion over the earth. It is difficult to imagine what would happen if anyone of us were to play God even for a limited duration. What kind of choices would we make? … Read more
Praying in tongues: the great deception
RECENTLY, my sister-in-law wrote on her Facebook page: “I’ve just come back from a convention. What a time we had. I spoke in tongues so much that I have to learn English all over again.” Needless to say, my brother … Read more
Matopos Hills: the other Heroes’ Acre
THE month of September is very significant for Zimbabweans in general and for the Ndebele people in particular, not only because it is the month in which the annual inxwala Reed dance is supposed to be held, but also because … Read more
