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Sharing information is the key to success of AI in Zimbabwe
Young Africans are anxious to enter the new world opening up to them thanks to AI. But will those who control the flow of information abandon their old instinct to … Read more >
Easter Day 2026: At long last, the Pope has ended the silence of the Christian lambs
Pope Leo X1V, the first North American pontiff, told tens of thousands of worshippers who gathered at St Peter’s Square in Rome on Easter Sunday, that those with weapons should… Read more >
Zimbabwe 2026: The past is another country – or is it?
Judith Todd on the right of David Coltart with other critics of the Constitution amendment bill at the Bulawayo meeting where they were not allowed to speak Emmerson Mnangagwa… Read more >
Terry Bell (1942-2026) – A life committed to journalism, justice and democracy
The anti-apartheid activist Terry Bell is dead. His admirers in Africa and other parts of the world mourn his passing but remember that he died where he lived… Read more >
The eyes have it – and not all will be on the new Archbishop of Canterbury today
Canterbury Cathedral – Mother Church of the 80 million strong Anglican Communion (Picture: Trevor Grundy) By Trevor Grundy Dame Sarah Mullally will today be installed as the 106th… Read more >
Copper’s Double Edge: Zambia’s Sovereignty and Its Dependencie
The world has returned to copper with urgency . . . what’s in it for the men who make the industry work? In Lewis Carrol’s famous book ‘Alice in… Read more >
Human Rights Day 2026 – The slaughter at Sharpeville on March 21, 1960 must never be forgotten
With one almighty bang, the place-name of “Sharpeville” woke-up and then shook-up the world’s leaders to the horror of apartheid in March 1960. But over the years memories fade. Crimes… Read more >
Nicholas Haysom 1952 -2026 : Freedom fighter and diplomat who helped end apartheid in South Africa
Nicholas Haysom at a Human Rights Conference held at the Victoria Falls in 1996 (Picture: Trevor Grundy) The South African lawyer and United Nations diplomat Nicholas Roland Leybourne Haysom… Read more >
Zimbabwe’s Lithium Paradox: How an Export Ban Strengthened Foreign Control
In Zimbabwe, lithium is more than a mineral story. It is a demographic and political one Lithium was once an afterthought; now it is the mineral that exposes Zimbabwe’s… Read more >
Non-stop violence against opponents of Emmerson Mnangagwa becoming the ‘Great Dictator’ of Zimbabwe
Human rights lawyer Lovemore Madhuku was severely beaten for daring to oppose the effective dictatorship of Emmerson Mnangagwa When Robert Mugabe was overthrown in 2017 certain British newspapers and… Read more >