Zimbabwe stands at a critical geopolitical crossroads as the global race for strategic minerals intensifies in the age of artificial intelligence, green energy, and advanced military technologies. With the West and China competing for control of rare earth minerals, lithium, cobalt, and copper, resource-rich regions like Southern Africa are becoming central to global power struggles. This analysis examines how the new geopolitical scramble for minerals could reshape international relations and why Zimbabwe must carefully navigate the emerging era of resource-driven global competition.
In this detailed clarification, Rutendo Matinyarare addresses Professor Mungano’s statements on ZDERA and sanctions, explaining the difference between executive order sanctions, ZDERA legislation, and the true timeline of Zimbabwe’s loan restrictions. He outlines how sanctions on Zimbabwe were officially repealed in 2024 and clarifies U.S. policy misinterpretations to educate the public and set the record straight.
General Mkhananzi is praised for fighting crime in KZN, but serious concerns arise over his links to private security firms, extrajudicial killings, and anti-black rhetoric. This article explores his troubling alliances with apartheid-linked militias and foreign-controlled private armies, raising questions about whether his war on crime serves justice—or entrenches systemic violence and oppression in South Africa
Zimbabwe’s healthcare system, once functional, has been decimated not by internal misgovernance alone but by 24 years of debilitating Western sanctions—sanctions that eroded the tax base, slashed health funding, and triggered a mass exodus of medical professionals. Backed by findings from the UN Human Rights Council and the U.S. Congress, this article explores how these sanctions crippled a nation’s ability to provide healthcare, the staggering $101 billion needed to restore it, and the real question Zimbabweans must ask: who will fund the health system we now demand? #WeNeedReparations
