The Selous Scouts was a special forces regiment of the Rhodesian Army that operated from 1973 until 1980.
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For 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.
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The 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.
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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.
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Everyone's Child is an eloquent call for action on behalf of Africa's millions of parentless children.
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Anyone remember how awkward and uncomfortable it got when the Protector Plus advert a child in the 90s?
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How to Africanise the war, yet keep the political situation stable and unchanged? The Rhodesians found an answer with Pfumo Re Vanhu.
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Super refined Olivine, clearly the best Olivine.
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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.
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With 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
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Gooooood morning Nestle Cerevita ... let's get ready to build a family!
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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.
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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.
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Nyasha Matonhodze featured in "Movement and Shape” for Vogue Japan.
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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.
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The history of Zimbabwean music is incomplete without mentioning "vapfanha vemaCD”.
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On 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.
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Bring out the flavour with Royco Flavour Family Favourites.
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From 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.
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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.
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One was an aging leader criticised for clinging onto power for too long, and the other was Robert Mugabe. Both had to go.
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Watch the infamous President Robert Mugabe speech at the 70th UN General Assembly in full.
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Imagine paying $417.00 per sheet of toilet paper. Sound crazy? It’s not as crazy as you may think...
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A great song doesn’t attempt to be anything — it just is. Sean Corey Carter.
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It 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.
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Today in history, Stephen Chidhumo, and three accomplices escape Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison.
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On 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.
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Neria,a Zimbabwean widow (Jesesi Mungoshi) falls prey to her greedy brother-in-law (Dominic Kanaventi) who takes her children and belongings.
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Watch The Bhundu Boys' live performance at the Mean Fiddler in Harlesden, London.
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Some 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.
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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.
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In the Winter of 1984 Zimbabwe's top musicians visited London for the first time. Watch Thomas Mapfumo and The Blacks Unlimited perform.
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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.
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Julian 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.
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Mr 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.
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Watch Bob Marley and The Wailers perform at Rufaro Stadium on April 19, 1980.
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With elections looming in Southern Rhodesia, a small monitoring force work to ensure free and fair elections.
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Josiah 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.
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Both 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.
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Zimbabwe Rhodesia was an unrecognised state that existed from 1 June 1979 to 11 December 1979.
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Poster by David King entitlled 'Stop the Execution of the Katumba Brothers! Stop the Execution of All Zimbambwean Political Prisoners!'
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Goodbye Rhodesia is a Thames Television documentary that captures the dying days of the Republic of Rhodesia in Southern Africa.
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Today 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.
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An episode of Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. featuring Rhodesian leader Bishop Abel T. Muzorewa (ca. 1978)
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An interim government comprised of Ian Smith and three moderate black leaders quite literally comes under fire from ZANU and ZAPU guerillas.
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The 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
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Any struggle without the participation of women cannot be complete and effective.
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