The fact that the Africa we want to see is a contested one is not in dispute, what may not be contestable is that no matter how ugly Africa’s past was, there is nothing that can be done to correct or relive it.
President Mugabe speaking at a media conference to mark the end of President Rupiah Bwezani Banda’s homecoming and official visit to Zimbabwe said that the nationals of the two countries should continue to exhibit the oneness that existed dating back to the days of the liberation struggle.
President Mugabe rightly observed that: “Zambia and Zimbabwe are [...]
Last Wednesday, I was privileged to be a guest speaker at a business-networking meeting in Johannesburg hosted by Rehoboth Ministries. This was my second presentation to the business forum and I chose my theme to be Identity and Economic Power in Africa.
Although my presentation covered a wide spectrum of issues, I am convinced ever more [...]
There is not doubt that the election of President-elect Barack Obama has ushered a new era in global politics.
Here was an ordinary guy who made a brilliant speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention and the rest is history.
He made history and defined our generation by convincing many of his country men and women to believe [...]
President Mugabe remains the head of state and government of the state of Zimbabwe notwithstanding what the majority of the citizens of Zimbabwe may have wished to see when they voted on 29 March 2008.
Those who voted for change will accept that a precedent starting with Kenya has been set in Africa that it is [...]
President Mugabe joined many heads of states and governments in congratulating President-elect Obama on his historic election as the 44th President of the USA.
President Mugabe took the opportunity to assure Obama that the government of Zimbabwe stands ready to engage the new administration to improve bilateral relations. Even President Mugabe acknowledged the historic significance of [...]
At 232 years, the United States of America (USA) remains one of the most daring human experiments involving the intrusion of migrants primarily from Europe and imposition of a Eurocentric civilization that has informed the construction of the so-called noble republic founded on a republican ideology.
The foundational principles of the republic were as noble to [...]
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in southern Africa with an area covering 390 757sq km and a population estimated at about 13 million.
A British colony from the end of the 19th century to 1965 and then a rebel state ruled by a white minority (1965-1980), Zimbabwe became independent in 1980 under the Lancaster House [...]
Zimbabwe turned 28 this year not because the country did not have a history prior to independence but citizens chose to build a new civilization in 1979 based on a just and democratic constitutional order underpinned by a simple concept of self government.
The post colonial state was a product of a protracted civil rights struggle [...]
Speaking in Pretoria yesterday at a birthday celebration in his honour, former President Mandela said that South Africa needs disciplined leaders now as much as ever in the country’s history.
Mandela’s name will remain etched in the history of South Africa as the first President of a constitutional democratic order and yet his legacy may not [...]
