The VICE
THE displacement, primarily affecting the Shangaan ethnic group in the Southeastern town of Chilonga in the Chiredzi district, was not due to a natural disaster; instead, their move is to make way for the commercial efforts of Darren Coetzee, a white farmer and businessman who wants the land to grow lucerne grass, a crop largely used for grazing and hay, for his family-run dairy business.
Coetzee founded Dendairy in 2004, and markets it as a “proudly Zimbabwean company” that empowers “everybody from local farmers, to nourishing the growing bodies of our countries [sic] youth.” Not everyone has felt so empowered Zimbabweans have been speaking out against the company’s participation in the Chiredzi land grab for months.
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The Commonwealth Should Investigate Tanzania’s Failure to Respond to COVID-19
By Editor | Published: February 20, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic is a global emergency that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives globally. Even when governments make their best effort at preserving the life and well-being of their populations by enacting sensible measures to decrease the spread of the disease and working to procure vaccines as quickly as possible, COVID-19 has proven to be a deadly adversary. When a government wilfully denies reality, casts doubt on vaccines and testing, and punishes those who report facts relating to the global pandemic inside the country, the international community must take action.
FREEDOM DAY FOR MADIBA!
Comments The joyful occasion of Nelson Mandela and other dignitaries at the Athlone Stadium in Cape Town shortly after his release from prison.
EXACTLY 31 years ago today, on 11 February 1990, Mzansi’s beloved Tata Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and into the sunshine.
After serving 27 years in jail, the man who had played his part in the struggle for freedom against the oppressive apartheid regime, was a free man.
The iconic pictures of Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, with their fists clenched, were splashed in newspapers and television screens around the world as he emerged from the Victor Verster Prison in the Western Cape.