policeman in Rhodesia( now Zimbabwe) before coming to America at the age of 24....

of place in a men-only golf club in colonial Rhodesia during the mid 1920s....

Robert Mugabe, former president of Zimbabwe, assumed power in April 1980; in September 2019, he died in a hospital in Singapore. That, after nearly forty years in power, Mugabe believed that the healthcare situation in his own country was not good enough for him speaks volumes of the legacy that Mu

Interest in Zimbabwe has spiked around the world following recent events in that African country. This affords an opportunity to consider not only the current political underpinnings of the crisis in Zimbabwe and the struggle for power by various political forces in the country, but also the much m

A history professorship named after Cecil Rhodes has been axed by a top university following a row over its links to racism and slavery. King’s College London has scrapped the Rhodes Professorship of Imperial History after the current post-holder called for it to be dropped. Prof Richard Drayton, who was a former Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, said of King’s College that “ the blood of enslaved Caribbean people is mixed into the mortar of its foundations ”, as reported by the Mail on Sunda

The country was know not only for feeding itself but the entire continent.As other southern African countries, Zimbabwean soil is rich in raw materials, namely platinum, coal, iron ore, and gold.... White farmers had their valuable lands seized on his orders and handed them to the families of resistance fighters.A controversial programme that caused the demolition of illegal housing structures was implemented rendering hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans homeless.... Before that, he was Prime

The monarch was instead spotted at the event with his sister, Princess Stephanie, and her son, Louis Ducruet.It comes after Princess Charlene made an eventual return to Monaco after an extended stay in her childhood home country of South Africa, which was explained as being due to medical complications. The couple had been apart since the Princess had travelled to South Africa earlier this year for a solo charity trip. She said she was “ grounded ” in the country following an ear-nose-throat inf

Some of his activities led to great loss of life and attracted criticism in his day and ever since.” It adds: “ In recent years, the statue has become a focus for public debate on racism and the legacy of colonialism.... We might now argue that he did more harm than good, but one has to understand what his intentions were.... It does not present him as a rounded character.” He added: “ We are pressing for a balanced plaque to be put up, possibly with fairly minimal information but presenting b

NEVER in the history of human conflict has so much been demanded of so many by so few.... After they failed in the Security Council, ahead of the UNGA session they resorted to ‘friendly persuasion’ through their diplom-ats, targeting ambivalent countries like ours. The level of pressure applied was astonishing.... Countries were asked to sanction Russia, albeit selectively....

Princess Michael, who was born Baroness Marie-Christine Anna Angnes Hedwig Ida von Reibnitz, is married to the Queen’s cousin, Prince Michael.... who is known as such because she was not born a British princess, so has taken on the style and title of her husband？... You’ve got fights and clashes on the streets of Vienna from the far left, the communists are being driven underground....