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Look back 70 years and remember one of the 20th century’s most obnoxious betrayals of public trust
RIP: Encounter magazine 1953-1991: The cultural-political monthly Encounter magazine was published from 1953 to 1991. Seventy years after its foundation, it is best remembered because of stunning revelations that, for… Read more >
Russian and Zimbabwean media grow closer – but is this to tell the truth or just a propaganda exercise to hide the failures of out-of-touch and incompetent leaders?
Russian schoolchildren at the Khatyn Massacre Memorial in Belarus. The German Army’s atrocities at Khatyn are not be confused with the Katyn Forest slaughter of 20,000 Polish Army officers on… Read more >
Zimbabwe 1983-1987: Gukuruhundi and the little known rape of tens of thousands of women
Robert Mugabe with ‘liberation’ leaders during the Rhodesian War. But when his guns stopped blazing against Europeans who built Rhodesia, they opened up again on people whose only home was… Read more >
Elections will raise both hopes and fears in Zimbabwe on August 23
President Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe pictured alongside his new friend President Putin. Both men hope to remain as heads of state in their respective countries for years to come. … Read more >
Missing interviews with key witnesses to murder of 14-year-old Stompie raises credibility about new book on Winnie and Nelson Mandela
Winnie with Nelson Mandela in Zimbabwe in 1990, soon after his release from prison. Brave faces hid broken hearts. (Picture: Trevor Grundy) Jonny Steinberg says he spoke to… Read more >
State-assisted funeral for the widow of a national hero accused of treason three years after independence in Zimbabwe
Shattered, Zodwa Dabengwa and friends after hearing on April 27, 1983 that although he was found ‘not guilty’ of treason, her legendary husband , Dumiso, was to be re-detained on… Read more >
THE PAIN OF REMEMBERING THE START OF ONE OF AFRICA’S MOST IGNORED GENOCIDES
Chief Mathema and Chief Fuyane unveiling a monument to the fallen dead during Gukuruhundi at Bhalagwe in southern Matabeleland in 2021. The Emmerson Mnangagwa government and media cronies attached to… Read more >
Zimbabweans pray for fair and peaceful elections as the economy spins into meltdown
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced that Zimbabwe will hold its presidential and parliamentary elections on August 23 this year. Elected president in 2018 after a military coup that deposed President… Read more >
Zimbabwe sadly makes it to the top of the Annual Misery Index, says leading USA economist
Homeless, hopeless and hungry – a woman in Zimbabwe close to its border with Mozambique during one of the many drought years that has plagued Zimbabwe in recent decades (Picture:… Read more >
Exclusive: Beaten and betrayed by Winnie Mandela, illegally imprisoned by Zambia’s President Kenneth Kaunda . . . how much longer will we turn our backs on this courageous African whistle-blower?
Amid the current international media focus on the marriage of Nelson and Winnie Mandela, the eye has again been taken off the ball of the murders committed by Mrs Mandela… Read more >