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Chronicles of the 2nd Chimurenga: This week, we profile Cde Muchaneta Mabhunu, Herbert Chitepo’s secretary who joined the struggle in 1972. Part 1 explores the traumatic experience that led her to join the war https://t.co/f1nVdAZ7f3 https://t.co/nf6ANHi1GR @Jamwanda2
China-Zimbabwe: 45 Years of Friendship — A Photographic Journey Through Our Shared History
Photo No. 22
On May 20, 1996, President Jiang Zemin of China arrived in Harare for a state visit and was warmly welcomed by President Mugabe.
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Commendations are due to @Jamwanda2 for further augmenting his intellectual portfolio with the conferral of a Master of Arts degree in African History from the University of Zimbabwe, awarded today. Those who have engaged with him pedagogically or professionally are well aware that this communications doyen is an indefatigable reader whose epistemological appetite drives a continuous pursuit of knowledge acquisition across interdisciplinary discourses. Makorokoto Mhofu!
Chinese enterprises have contributed over US$100 million in hundreds of corporate social responsibility projects nationwide, including schools, clinics, roads, boreholes and various rural development initiatives that empower women, youth and vulnerable groups. 🇨🇳🇿🇼
We don't talk about Blessing Muzarabani enough & that is a bit of a crime.
Muzarabani is one of those rare bowlers who actually exists in all 3 formats at present. Since 2021 he has been building something that looks a lot like greatness if you bother to look.
73 Test wickets at 24.5 average. Strike rate of 44.8.
In ODIs he has 45 wickets in same period with 4.97 economy. Only Hazlewood & Boult have taken more wickets with better economy rate among Test nation pacers. that is the company he keeps.
And in T20Is?
93 wickets since 2021 with economy of 7.07. only Bumrah, Mustafizur & Farooqi are ahead of him in terms of economy with min 50 wickets.
Moments are there if you know where to look. 9 wickets in Sylhet last year. Bangladesh's own backyard. Then 6 wickets in current Test in Harare for an innings win. In between he sent Australia packing from T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka.
He leads Zimbabwe's attack. he manages his body across 3 formats for a team that does not have luxury of depth. He keeps showing up & deliver. Again & again.
We need to do better by him. He deserves at least that much.
@RichardRbidza Good going Captain. Nyika yese ikufara. Test victories, by this margin, are rare for Zim. We salute you Boys. Now lets hammer them again kuma ODI and T20.
New: Zimbabwe will host 10 ODI World Cup matches in 2027 across three venues- Harare Sports Club, Queens Sports Club and Mosi Oa Tunya Internationaly stadium. This is up from the 5 games Zimbabwe were initially set to host🇿🇼
ZIMBABWE’S EVER SOARING GLOBAL PROFILE: Zimbabwe’s successful bid yesterday into the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has a splendid history behind it. Two years into Independence, in 1982, Zimbabwe made her debut presence in the Security Council of the World Body. It secured this in the FIRST ROUND by collecting ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-EIGHT (138) votes. About a decade later, in 1990 Zimbabwe was again in the running for the prestigious Security Council seat. It garnered ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY SIX (146) votes, again in the FIRST ROUND. The result marked a numerical appreciation of EIGHT (8) votes, which is a lot in global country terms. The rise meant Zimbabwe’s stature had risen in the eyes of the world. Yesterday, some thirty-six years after her second successful bid, support for Zimbabwe soared to an extraordinary ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-TWO (182) votes, again going through in FIRST ROUND. Here is the table:
Year Number of Votes Number of rounds
1982 138. 1
1990. 146. 1
2026. 182. 1
Although the ballot for the Security Council seat is secret, the historical trend clearly reveals Zimbabwe as a non-polarising candidate, whether read by rounds or by numbers collected. This is remarkable where Permanent Members of the Security Council, the P5, tend to balkanize the voting pattern, as too, does local rivalries. Incorporating other global indices, principally FDI and tourism, it is clear we are a nation ably led, widely admired and in the middle of an inexorable march. The core message of PEACE, SECURITY and JUSTICE in the management of world affairs, showed Zimbabwe had a resonating message, buttressed by a general feeling that Zimbabwe has always proceeded on INDEPENDENCE of thought, and on PRINCIPLED approach to world affairs. Zimbabwe thus can be trusted, with its welcoming foreign policy of A FRIEND TO ALL AND ENEMY TO NONE, providing a broad church to a tension-filled world. The strategy of ENGAGEMENT and RE-ENGAGEMENT and enabled the country to REPAIR, REGAIN and GAIN, thus always expanding the pool of allies and friends. At home in SADC and on the African Continent, Zimbabwe has led its immediate subregion and is set to takeover the leadership of COMESA this year, itself a double! All that is the hallmark of THE FIRST REPUBLIC under the stewardship of President E.D. Mnangagwa.