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A critique of the Presidential Age limit in Zimbabwe

Bruce Magwenzi — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 15:17:10 +0000

On May 22, 2013, former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe signed into law the Constitution of the Republic of Zimbabwe following a constitution making process that occurred during the period of the Government of National Unity (GNU). Section 2 of the Constitution states that, “The Constitution is the supreme law of the land and any law, [...]

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Remembering Cde Herbert Chitepo 43 years after his assassination

Bruce Magwenzi — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:25:10 +0000

On March 18, 1975 Herbert Wiltshire Pfumaindini Chitepo, an African Nationalist and Chairman of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), a revolutionary movement that liberated Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) from white-imperialist forces, was killed by a car bomb whilst in exile in Lusaka, Zambia. Although his murderer remains unidentified, his life and legacy as a liberation [...]

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Compensating white farmers in Zimbabwe is a sell-out of the Chimurenga

Bruce Magwenzi — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:13:28 +0000

The land question has consistently stayed at the center of Zimbabwe’s political, economic and social development. It remains the root of the political tension between Zimbabwe and the former colonial power, Britain. The advent of European settler occupation in Zimbabwe was the genesis of the dispossession of black people from their land. The period of [...]

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Gukurahundi

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 16:11:04 +0000

Gukurahundi is a Shona language term which loosely translates to, “the early rain which washes away the chaff before the spring rains”. In Zimbabwe, it has particular reference to an operation carried out by the national army’s Fifth Brigade between 1983 and 1987 whereby suspected anti-government elements among the Ndebele community were identified and eliminated. [...]

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A Woman Zimbabwe Raped

Philani A Nyoni — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 01:57:37 +0000

When she stepped into the omnibus she reeked of dejection, the stench was more repugnant than the decades pilled upon her, darker than the aura of disappointment that she had to show for the culmination of all her life. All her years, all the lives she had birthed with the African hope of redemption in [...]

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8 African Countries Whose Independence Is a Direct Result of the Teachings of Marcus Garvey

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 22:12:33 +0000

Source: AtlantaBlackStar.com Zimbabwe Zimbabwe, formerly known as Rhodesia, is one of the greatest examples of a country being impacted by Garveyism. According to an article titled “The Seeds are Sown: The Impact of Garveyism in Zimbabwe in the Interwar Years,” Marcus Garvey’s teachings had an “electrifying effect on colonial Zimbabwean migrant workers in South Africa, [...]

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