Ian Smith

By Tinashe Nyamunda Although Zimbabwe was the victorious outcome of a nationalist struggle against Rhodesia, there were significant continuities in the country’s economic structures in the first two decades of independence. The…
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By Tendai Ruben Mbofana | The Zimbabwean | During a New Year's Eve gathering we had with friends, a discussion on the appalling political and economic state in which Zimbabweans are reeling under, naturally took centre stage.…
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SOUTH AFRICA - President Robert Mugabe has said if he was a dictator he would have “taken the head” of Ian Smith, the late former Rhodesian leader.
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From February to June 2011, Zimbabweans from all walks of life were shocked as villagers, war veterans and Government agencies embarked on the process of exhuming bodies of dead people from a disused mine shaft at Chibondo, Mt Darwin, in…
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HARARE - Emmerson Mnangagwa, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister, has revealed that Ian Smith’s soldiers damaged one of his ears in a torture session during the liberation struggle.
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The name Rhodesia remains offensive to most of us blacks. It hangs like a nightmare in our brains because of what it stood for and what it did to our fore fathers and those who perished fighting for our freedom. Racism remains an obnoxious…
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Not so often in the history of mankind has humanity sacrificed so much for too insignificant a reward as is the paradox of the war of liberation in Africa as a whole and Zimbabwe in particular.
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The sacred question to ask, though unpalatable to some Zimbabweans, did Smith fare well against adversity? The sanctions imposed on Rhodesia took years to effect change.
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Politicians the world over and in Zimbabwe in particular rarely apologise if they make mistakes or make wrong decisions. More often than not they find a scapegoat to justify their actions despite that the fib they are selling may be wafer…
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Zimbabweans on Sunday woke up to a shocking admission by the state weekly newspaper, The Sunday Mail, that the colonial government of Ian Smith had fared better at managing the economy that the ZANU PF government which has been in power…
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