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Ndabaningi Sithole: Zimbabwe’s forgotten intellectual and leader

Trevor Grundy | 9 July, 2022

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

Trevor Grundy | 6 July, 2022

‘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

Trevor Grundy | 3 July, 2022

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

Trevor Grundy | 23 April, 2022

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’

Trevor Grundy | 10 April, 2022

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

Trevor Grundy | 12 March, 2022

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

Trevor Grundy | 7 March, 2022

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

Trevor Grundy | 18 February, 2022

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

Trevor Grundy | 10 February, 2022

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

Trevor Grundy | 27 January, 2022

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 >