By Munyaradzi Gwisai In the following piece, the Zimbabwean Marxist scholar and activist, with direct experience of the struggle in Zimbabwe, offers the South African left forces some lessons from Zimbabwe. The political economy analysis provided here is one of the most significant contributions in understanding the current crisis in South Africa. Gwisai warns against …
By Professor Jonathan Moyo This article was originally published on The Southern Times website in September 2016 around the time of the #ThisFlag and other regime change protests. Prof Jonathan Moyo is Zimbabwe’s minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development and MP for Tsholotsho North (Zanu PF). If there’s one inescapable reality to …
By BO Staff Writer Black Opinion brings you the first instalment of its podcast, Black Analysis. In this short podcast “Black Opinion’s Black Weekly News Analysis” we hope to be speaking about stories from the previous week and analysing from our Black Opinion perspective. Last week was the first week of New Year and the …
Media Statement Black First Land First (BLF) is once again appalled, but not surprised, at the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) calling for the democratically elected President of Zimbabwe, Comrade Robert Mugabe, to step down. Malema has been brazen in his service to British imperialism since the EFF leadership held a secret meeting …
Image: Zimbabwean Pastor who started the #ThisFlag campaign, Pastor Evans Mawarire. Photo: The Standard. By Pastor Xola Skosana Pastors in the Pentecostal/Charismatic sector of the church are the least prepared leaders to deal with the complexity of post-colonial and neo-colonial dynamics in Black society. Being a Christian is already an admission of susceptibility and gullibility. In …
Image: Supporters of Mugabe’s Zanu-PF. Photo: The Herald. By Zanele Lwana and Lindsay Maasdorp The Zimbabwean revolution is under threat! After a decade and a half of sustained imperialist economic sanctions which were illegally imposed by the European Union and the USA, the economy is on its knees. The recent drought affecting the whole southern …
By BO Staff Writer The Zimbabwe regime-change Western sponsored #ThisFlag campaign is projected as peaceful by the pro-imperialist and colonialist media. However, since the strike it called last week it has in fact shown itself to be violent. The strike was enforced by violence in many parts of Harare. Now the violence of #ThisFlag has …
Image: A #ThisFlag poster doing the rounds on social media. Photo:Twitter By BO Staff Writer The economic woes biting the Zimbabwean society are the creation of years of sanctions and economic sabotage by the West, along with the failed responses of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Add to that a crippling drought caused mainly …
Image: Armed police in Harare. Photo: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP By BO Staff Writer On Wednesday the two main cities of Zimbabwe, Harare and Bulawayo, witnessed a shut down following a call for a stay away strike called by what the country’s Minister of Education, Professor Jonathan Moyo, called “faceless people.” Foreign media, led by The Guardian, …
Featured Image: Albert Chinhanga, one of the N7 Farmers. By Tariro Washinyira Five Zimbabwean men have been successfully growing crops on land abandoned as unprofitable in Malmesbury. The landowner, N7 Meat, gave up farming crops on the land, claiming losses of over R1 million. Zinhanga and four friends met the landowner when buying an ox for …
