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LLast Tuesday, on 3rd March, Malawi commemorated Martyrs’ Day as an annual national event. This important day honours the brave sons and daughters who lost their lives during the 1959 State of ...

Analysts already speculate that Kurdish regions of Iran could attempt to consolidate into an independent Kurdistan if Tehran’s central authority collapses. Kurdish autonomy movements have existed for ...

A historian and exponent of ‘Rhodes must fall’ explores how political liberation doesn’t always bring personal freedom ...

It is not now debatable that an American order was imposed on the world immediately after the Second World War and that order subsists today, however shaky it now seems to be. It is no coincidence ...

Yet when a liberation movement transitions into state power, unresolved trauma can harden into authoritarian governance. The Gukurahundi massacres of the 1980s remain a scar on the nation’s conscience ...

When George Charamba, the quintessential architect of Zimbabwe’s modern propaganda machine, took to social media to exhume and desecrate the legacy of the late John Masuku, he did more than just ...

When a prison is mistaken for a palace, a nation’s tragedy begins. The approval of Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 by the Zimbabwean Cabinet on February 10, 2026, marks a watershed moment in the ...

“AND how did you like it in Rho-desia?” people asked me when, in 1963, my husband and I returned from living there for three years. Usually they were just being polite and had almost no interest in ...

A faded 1918 tax receipt reopened a conversation about forced labour and colonial exploitation that reshaped families and Mzansi’s economy today South Africans reacted strongly as the old document ...