newsCategory: Features & Analysis
Ndabaningi Sithole: Zimbabwe’s forgotten intellectual and leader
Jubilant supporters welcome Rev.Ndaabaningi Sithole back to the land of his birth in 1992 (Picture: Trevor Grundy) Guest writer of the month Tinashe Mushakavanhu, University of Oxford (Reproduced… Read more >
Winston Churchill: New book emphasises the dark side of Britain’s best-loved war-time leader
‘Winston Churchill – His Times, His Crimes’ by Tariq Ali (Verso, 419 pp. £25.00) Trevor Grundy reviews a book that could open the eyes of a new generation of… Read more >
John Thomson (1931-2022): New Zealand journalist who never stopped loving Tanzania
John Thomson, a dedicated journalist who loved Tanzania and who did his utmost to explain Julius Nyerere’s socialist socialist policies to the outside world (Picture courtesy of Meera Webster, John… Read more >
Barbara Hall MBE (1923-2022): A woman of talent and courage who had a never-ending love for Zambia
Barbara Hall MBE, doyen in the world of crossword compilers and editor of a book that helped whites in Africa understand more about the people they lived alongside but who… Read more >
Max Mosley remembered: His mother nicknamed him ‘The Determined One.’ We called him ‘Golden Balls’
Max Mosley in 1961 when he was a Union Movement election agent legally responsible for a pamphlet circulated in Manchester that claimed ‘coloured’ people brought disease, crime and poverty with… Read more >
Queen will miss Commonwealth Day but Baroness Scotland will be there lobbying to be re-elected as the club’s Secretary-General
Baroness Scotland – In search of another term as Commonwealth Secretary-General By Trevor Grundy Queen Elizabeth won’t be at the annual Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey on… Read more >
Verbal violence mounts as candidates and voters hope for peace and transparency during and after Zimbabwe’s first post-Covid elections
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has proclaimed March 26 as the date for long-awaited by-elections to fill vacant seats in the National Assembly and various local authorities across the country. … Read more >
March 1922 – The month that Communists and Afrikaners joined hands to fight profit-hungry mine owners in South Afriuca
Some military historians still see the Rand Revolt of March 1922 as a Communist attempt to take-over South Africa. Picture shows (top) Jan Smuts and (below) the Communist leader ‘Comrade… Read more >
As forests go up in smoke, Zimbabwe’s short-sighted leaders create a desert and call it land reform
Tobacco farmers are responsible for a fifth of the total amount of deforestation in Zimbabwe By Trevor Grundy Feeding China’s growing need for cheap tobacco is creating deserts… Read more >
Deeper research is required if we are to understand a brutal war that turned Rhodesia into Zimbabwe
BOOK REVIEW A Brutal State of Affairs – The Rise and fall of Rhodesia by Henrik Ellert and Dennis Anderson (Weaver Press, Harare, Zimbabwe, 2020 pp 412) by… Read more >