By Gwynne Dyer I am the clerk, the technician, the mechanic, the driver. They said: Do this, do that, don’t look left or right. Don’t read the text. Don’t look […]

By FJ Tichawangana WHEN you get home today connect to the Internet and do a search for “Development in Africa”. What? You don’t have a computer? You’re not connected to […]

By Niall Ferguson FROM Ted Kennedy to the cover of Newsweek, we are being warned that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, George W Bush’s Vietnam. Learning from history is […]

By Bill Saidi WITH so much time on my hands these days and nights I have tried to sit through an entire screening of Tazzen Mandizvidza’s Media Watch – in […]

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Vincent Kahiya ON Sunday Zimbabwe turns 24. But there (more…)

By Gwynne Dyer PATRICIA de Lille, leader of South Africa’s Independent Democratic Party, took a very public HIV test as part of her campaign – and challenged all the other […]

By Steven Gruzd/Michael van Winden THE foiled coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea in March provided an urgent reminder of the destabilising consequences when two of Africa’s most troubling unsolved problems […]

By Everjoice J Win RHODESIA. The Seventies. “This is the Rhodesia Broadcasting Corporation. Combined operations headquarters reports that 15 terrorists were killed in Muzarabani. In Rushinga 11 more terroris (more…)

By Steven Gruzd/Michael van Winden AFTER a decade in power, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) was so confident it would retain control after South Africa’s third democratic elections on […]