- journalist - lover of HISTORY - The Blackness of my ORIGIN
Harare, Zimbabwe
Joined December 2014
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Help me congratulate my daughter for coming out with 7As and 3Bs at O'Level. Zvakaoma zvakadaro Masibanda vakashingaira.
History in Motion
Today, 61 years ago, minority leader Ian Smith declared UDI. African Nationalist parties viewed this as a slap for what they had been fighting for. In prison, nationalist leaders called for the escalation of the armed liberation struggle.
At least 66 soldiers have been sentenced to death in the DRC for cowardice, mutiny & refusing to obey orders. The sentences followed a trial of 71 soldiers before a military court in Walikale, in North Kivu province, in eastern DR Congo. Four soldiers were acquitted.
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In Zambia a former Ambassador is being charged with reason. Zambian police charged a former Zambian Ambassador to Switzerland, Martha Lungu Mwitumwa, with treason following recent post-election political tensions.
DID YOU KNOW?
Scottish explorer David Livingstone first sighted the waterfall on the Zambezi River (Nov 16, 1855), which he named Victoria Falls (known locally as Mosi-oa-Tunya). He did not discover. The Kalolo-Lozi people knew about the falls for before Livingstone arrived.
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ZACC has arrested two Zimra officers at Plumtree Border Post for allegedly falsifying the exit of two luxury vehicles -a Lamborghini Urus and a Mercedes-Benz GLE 53.
Full story visit: herald.co.zw
South Africa is yet to comply with the directive to declassify colonial archives on Congo disturbances in the 1960s.
heraldonline.co.zw/did-sa-ap…
Who was Greater?
“We equally reject attempts to prescribe ‘new rights’ that are contrary to our values, norms, traditions, and beliefs. We are not gays!” – UN General Assembly, 2015
"It always seems impossible until it's done"- Mandela.
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Great Sons of Southern Africa
Robert Mugabe, Samora Machel, Kenneth Kaunda, Nelson Mandela, Chris Hani, Sam Nujoma, Joshua Nkomo.
My writing as a journalist is useless if it's not for the service of my nation. Was it not Salvador Lopez who said, "Of all the ends of which the writer my dedicate his talents, none is more worthy than the improvement of the condition of man and the defiance of freedom."
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