Aubrey Matshiqi

Many black Africans are excited about Barack Obama becoming the first black man to represent a major political party in the race for the US presidency. Because of this remarkable achievement, there is an inordinate amount of interest in what Obama will do for Africa. What people are forgetting is the fact that in the term African-American, the word “African” performs an adjectival function. While it may be the case that Obama has a sense of solidarity with the African continent, it may also be the case that, as president, he will turn out to be an American who happens to be black.

by Arthur G.O. Mutambara

As we commemorate Africa Day, May 25, it is important that we reflect on the economic circumstances obtaining on our continent. Much discourse has taken place on the challenges of poor political governance and leadership failure in Africa. This is not the primary objective of this treatise. Of particular interest here are lessons that can be drawn from Africa’s economic experience, as a basis for formulating new developmental trajectories. We are very alive to the fact that an economic model will depend on foundational matters of political governance and legitimacy. The economy cannot be de-linked from politics.

Today, Zimbabwe sits in the eye of the storm!

The sustained national and international campaign on Zimbabwe of many years has seized the March 29, 2008 Municipal, House of Assembly, Senate and Presidential elections as a focal point around which to wage a most intense offensive against ZANU PF and President Mugabe.

Fahamu (Oxford)

Netfa Freeman argues that commentaries looking at Zimbabwe should also "include an analysis of and explicit stand against US-British intervention and address why and how they are targeting Zimbabwe.

Audrin Mathe

Recently, a panel discussion on Zimbabwe took place in Windhoek. The room was fully-packed. Chairs extended beyond to capture the overflow. But the chairs were still not enough and late arrivals stood against the long walls where they hoped to catch a snatch of the discussion.

Wilf Mbanga

IT HAS been a momentous week in Zimbabwe’s longstanding and agonising drama. Only twelve days ago, Zimbabwe’s beleaguered people were preparing to vote in the country’s presidential and parliamentary elections on March 29 2008 – and in so doing, face down the might of a Zanu-PF regime using every available trick to manipulate the process and the result in order to preserve it and its leader, Robert Mugabe, in power.

News 24

Ahead of the March 29 Zimbabwe election, News24 published an extract from William Gumede's “Thabo Mbeki and the battle for the soul of the ANC” (Zebra Press). In a Chapter called "Comrade Bob", Gumede deals with the issue of SA's quiet diplomacy towards Zimbabwe.

News 24

Ahead of the March 29 Zimbabwe election, News24 published an extract from William Gumede's “Thabo Mbeki and the battle for the soul of the ANC” (Zebra Press). In a Chapter called "Comrade Bob", Gumede deals with the issue of SA's quiet diplomacy towards Zimbabwe.

Africa, the cradle of humankind, has always yielded essential components for human sustenance. The continent’s rich natural endowments — not only oil and natural gas, but also other fuel and non-fuel...

Zimbabwe Embassy in Namibia

A rebuttal of Andrew N. Matjila's article entitled, "The Zimbabwe Enigma - Wake Up Africa" (New Era newspaper, 15 February 2008)

Rejoice Ngwenya

ELLEN G White, the prolific 19th Century writer as iconic in conservative Seventh Day Adventism as Ayn Rand is in modern-day liberal philosophy, refers to prophets as God’s messengers who bear a critical responsibility of exposing positive and negative facts on spiritual status of mankind, where necessary foretelling the evil that will befall a whole nation or community that defies the Creator’s laws.

Andrew N. Matjila

Thus has come to southern Africa in the SADC region, an enigma that defies all logical solutions, viz. Zimbabwe, or, as old man Vusa Mazulu Mutwa refers to it in African mythology, Zimabje, in reference to an age-old Kingdom of Monomotapa, whose demise left behind the awe-inspiring Zimbabwe Ruins.

Moeletsi Mbeki

Ten years ago, South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki attracted the world's attention when he announced the arrival of the African Renaissance.

Hans-Erik Staby

The title “Founding Father of the Nation” was conferred on former President Sam Nujoma by means of an Act of Parliament, an award allegedly fathered by him and supported by his party political majority.