The Selous Scouts was a special forces regiment of the Rhodesian Army that operated from 1973 until 1980.
Read MoreFor many, the impact of David Chifunyise's music is undeniable - he created a sound that encapsulated a time, resonating with both old and young fans alike.
Read MoreThe meteoric rise of the duo Calvin Gudu and Muzi Mangena in 1998 is nothing short of remarkable. It all began with the song 'Tombofara', a whimsical fantasy song unlike anything anyone had ever heard before.
Read MoreThe Mukadota Family
The Mukadota Family is considered one of the best television shows to have been produced in Zimbabwe. The show aired hair the airwaves in 1982 and ended 1996 but not without leaving behind a legacy that still endures today.
Read MoreEveryone’s Child (ca. 1995)
Everyone's Child is an eloquent call for action on behalf of Africa's millions of parentless children.
Read MoreProtector Plus TV advert
Anyone remember how awkward and uncomfortable it got when the Protector Plus advert a child in the 90s?
Read MorePfumo re Vanhu (ca. 1978)
How to Africanise the war, yet keep the political situation stable and unchanged? The Rhodesians found an answer with Pfumo Re Vanhu.
Read MoreOlivine Cooking Oil advert (ca. 1997)
Super refined Olivine, clearly the best Olivine.
Read MoreCecil Rhodes: King of Diamonds
Cecil John Rhodes (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was a British mining magnate, and politician in southern Africa. He was prime minister of Cape Colony (1890 – 1896) and organiser of the giant diamond-mining company De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd.
Read MoreWith advertising now ever-stretched across social networks, TV ads just don’t seem anywhere near as amazing as they used to be. Not like this CBZ TV advert (circa. 1995) promoting the technology of the day, ‘new 4th generation technology automated teller
Read MoreNestle Cerevita TV Advert (ca. 1997)
Gooooood morning Nestle Cerevita ... let's get ready to build a family!
Read MoreMore Time (ca. 1993)
Thandi is a teenager, ready for anything and ripe for love. She's flirting with womanhood and the township beckons. As her life spins out of control, Thandi has to learn that playing with love may mean toying with her life.
Read MoreDiamonds, Gold and Greed
Zeinab Badawi travels to South Africa and Zimbabwe to see how southern Africans gradually came to grasp the destruction and suffering that would be inflicted upon them by white settlers.
Read MoreNyasha Matonhodze featured in "Movement and Shape” for Vogue Japan.
Read MoreBad Archeology: Great Zimbabwe
Archaeological evidence is often made to fit people’s prejudiced opinions about other people and the world, or it legitimises particular political ideologies. Case in point: Great Zimbabwe.
Read MoreThe Chamhembe Story
The history of Zimbabwean music is incomplete without mentioning "vapfanha vemaCD”.
Read MoreOn July 12, 2020 Zimbabwean-born Stephanie Travers became 1st black woman to stand on the podium in 70 years of Formula 1 history after Lewis Hamilton's win at Austria:F1.
Read MoreBring out the flavour with Royco Flavour Family Favourites.
Read MoreFrom traditional rituals of music and dance, through the stirring choruses of the liberation war, to the songs of the popular stars and farmers' choirs today, the people of Zimbabwe present their music.
Read MoreChisora Versus Takam (ca. 2018)
Dereck Chisora revitalises his career with an emphatic knockout win over Carlos Takam. Skip straight to the eighth round - 36:06 for the knockout - because that’s the one that matters.
Read MoreOne was an aging leader criticised for clinging onto power for too long, and the other was Robert Mugabe. Both had to go.
Read MoreWatch the infamous President Robert Mugabe speech at the 70th UN General Assembly in full.
Read MoreImagine paying $417.00 per sheet of toilet paper. Sound crazy? It’s not as crazy as you may think...
Read MoreA great song doesn’t attempt to be anything — it just is. Sean Corey Carter.
Read MoreIt was just another day with the Mazowe Boys High School, Form 2 Class of 2000. The day sandwiched between mince-meat-and-eggs-for-breakfast Saturday, and beef-and-potatoes-for-dinner Thursday.
Read MoreToday in history, Stephen Chidhumo, and three accomplices escape Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison.
Read MoreOn September 16, 1994, children at Ariel school in Ruwa, Zimbabwe said they'd seen a 'UFO' and 'aliens with big eyes' in bush land near their school playground. The story was reported around the world.
Read MoreNeria (ca. 1993)
Neria,a Zimbabwean widow (Jesesi Mungoshi) falls prey to her greedy brother-in-law (Dominic Kanaventi) who takes her children and belongings.
Read MoreWatch The Bhundu Boys' live performance at the Mean Fiddler in Harlesden, London.
Read MoreSome TV ads are made to last. Some not. One that has stayed in our mind - and yours, we’re sure - is the Air Zimbabwe TV advert from the late 80s.
Read MoreEconomic War (ca 1986)
The Front-Line States are those that border South Africa. They are Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Angola. They are so named because they are on the front lines of the battle against apartheid.
Read MoreThomas Mapfumo at The Forum, London (ca. 1984)
In the Winter of 1984 Zimbabwe's top musicians visited London for the first time. Watch Thomas Mapfumo and The Blacks Unlimited perform.
Read MoreFrom Neharawa To Harare (ca. 1982)
On the second anniversary of independence from Britain, Zimbabwe embarked on the process of renaming its cities, towns and streets, in an attempt to eradicate all symbols associated with the British colonialism and White minority rule.
Read MoreJulian Manyon and the team from Thames Television's 'TV Eye' travel to Zimbabwe to Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe,and some of his key revolutionary allies.
Read MoreMr Tekere and seven of his bodyguards were accused of murdering an elderly White farmer, and so Zimbabwe's White minority wanted reassurance at the trial that their lives and property do have official protection.
Read MoreWatch Bob Marley and The Wailers perform at Rufaro Stadium on April 19, 1980.
Read MoreHow free, how fair? (ca. 1980)
With elections looming in Southern Rhodesia, a small monitoring force work to ensure free and fair elections.
Read MoreJosiah Tongogara was killed by his own forces in Mozambique, according to outgoing UANC Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr David Mukome. His body was already in a mortuary before the terrorist commanders flew to Salisbury on December 21, 1979.
Read MoreBoth guests want, "a democratic government which would not be racist in its composition and which would be achieved with the least bloodshed possible," but disagree on the best means to that end.
Read MoreZimbabwe Rhodesia (ca. 1979)
Zimbabwe Rhodesia was an unrecognised state that existed from 1 June 1979 to 11 December 1979.
Read MorePoster by David King entitlled 'Stop the Execution of the Katumba Brothers! Stop the Execution of All Zimbambwean Political Prisoners!'
Read MoreGoodbye Rhodesia (ca. 1979)
Goodbye Rhodesia is a Thames Television documentary that captures the dying days of the Republic of Rhodesia in Southern Africa.
Read MoreToday in history the garrison town of Umtali, in the east of Rhodesia near its border with Mozambique, is hit with mortar bombs fired from an unknown position.
Read MoreThe Rhodesian Dilemma (ca. 1978)
An episode of Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. featuring Rhodesian leader Bishop Abel T. Muzorewa (ca. 1978)
Read MoreAn interim government comprised of Ian Smith and three moderate black leaders quite literally comes under fire from ZANU and ZAPU guerillas.
Read MoreThe Internal settlement was signed on 3 March 1978 between Prime Minister of Rhodesia Ian Smith and moderate African nationalist leaders comprise Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Ndabaningi Sithole and Senator Chief Jeremiah Chirau. After almost 15 years of the Rhodesian Bush
Read MoreWomen’s role in struggle (ca. 1978)
Any struggle without the participation of women cannot be complete and effective.
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