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Solidarity With Oppressed Women in Zimbabwe

By Gladys Helen Meck As the MDC - Alliance UK and Ireland  Provincial Vice Organising Secretary for the  Women's Assembly my heart bleeds when I continuously hear and see media reports of how women in Zimbabwe continue being abused, tortured  mentally and  physically. I'm deeply grieved when I think of MDC Alliance Joanna Madamombe, Netsai … Continue reading Solidarity With Oppressed Women in Zimbabwe

Political Expediency Will not take us Far: Putting Nehanda in her proper Historical Context

By Dr Takavafira M. Zhou 3 December 2020This epistle must be understood as an accurate historical narrative, and nothing more. The truth is that Nehanda was not a national figure but local figure as a spirit medium whose influence was restricted to Mazoe area. Her advantage was nearness to the locus of power and white … Continue reading Political Expediency Will not take us Far: Putting Nehanda in her proper Historical Context