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Different strokes for different folks but the same old Mugabe tactics underline elections in Zimbabwe

Trevor Grundy | 8 September, 2023

The ghost of Robert Mugabe – like the ghost of Banquo in Shakespeare’s Macbeth – keeps popping – up at election time in Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zimbabwe (Picture: Trevor Grundy)  …   Read more >

Grass roots anger mounts in post-BREXIT Britain after Tory promises to ‘take back control’

Trevor Grundy | 5 September, 2023

Michael Gove, a key architect of BREXIT Scattering apologies like confetti at a wedding     Birmingham City Council . . .  bankrupt It’s the largest local authority in the…   Read more >

South African celebs tip-toe in the footsteps of George Bernard Shaw

Trevor Grundy | 22 August, 2023

Tourist of the Revolution – George Bernard Shaw (with freshly washed beard ) on his way to Moscow in August 1931   By Trevor Grundy   The BBC’s Shinhai Nyoka…   Read more >

Zimbabwe 1983-1987: Gukuruhundi and the little known rape of tens of thousands of women

Trevor Grundy | 4 August, 2023

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 >

Missing interviews with key witnesses to murder of 14-year-old Stompie raises credibility about new book on Winnie and Nelson Mandela

Trevor Grundy | 31 July, 2023

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 >

THE PAIN OF REMEMBERING THE START OF ONE OF AFRICA’S MOST IGNORED GENOCIDES

Trevor Grundy | 22 June, 2023

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 >

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?

Trevor Grundy | 22 May, 2023

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 >

Guest writer of the month

Trevor Grundy | 21 May, 2023

  A CAN OF WORMS AT THE CROWNING OF A KING by Angus Shaw   Former British colonies and protectorates had an eye on all the jewels at the coronation…   Read more >

From the ‘Christian’ British Empire to the multi-cultural Commonwealth with millions of broken lives in-between

Trevor Grundy | 20 May, 2023

THE COLONIAL WORLD – A history of European Empires, 1780s to the Present by Robert Aldrich and Andreas Stucki (Bloomsbury, 2023 pp 536)   Reviewed by TREVOR GRUNDY   “Poor…   Read more >

Mandela would have read this book even though students from Oxford and Cambridge universities say it should be banned

Trevor Grundy | 21 April, 2023

Nigel Biggar (left) whose controversial view on colonialism sheds fresh light on the man so many students at top universities most love to hate – Cecil John  Rhodes   Colonialism:…   Read more >