Professor Sheunesu Mpepereki

Leonard Dembo: The untold story 

By Fidelis Manyange  LAST week, Wednesday, April 9, marked exactly 28 years since the death of sungura legend Leonard Dembo.  He died in 1996.  Dembo’s real name was Leonard Tazvivinga as opposed to Kwangwari Gwaindepi as is widely reported.  In fact, Kwangwari Gwaindepi was his grandfather and that...

Unpacking the political economy of poverty 

IN 1990, soon after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela, while visiting in the US, was asked by one African- American woman from Harlem what plans he had for a free South Africa since all newly independent African countries never seemed to have the...

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Heritage-based teaching and learning: Part Two…exorcising the ghost of Education 3.0

IN this series of discussions, we are interrogating heritage-based teaching and learning which anchors...

Patriotism: Zim’s dilemma – Part Two…the motherland or death?

IN the first episode of this series of articles on Zimbabwean patriotism, we looked...

Patriotism: Zim’s dilemma– Part One

PATRIOTISM has been variously described as love of one’s motherland (land of one’s birth)...

Western sanctions on Zim…is this a case of white solidarity under American leadership

US President-elect Joe Biden once made reference to a 1986 political speech in which...

Hoping against hope… as sanctions continue wreaking havoc

THE American presidential elections have come and are about gone.  Most Zimbabweans who keep politics...

COVID-19: Can we pin hopes on ICTS?

IN the last instalment we promised to look at strategies for recovering and resuming...

Re-dollarisation: myths and realities — Part Six …evidence of human factor decay

By Professor Sheunesu Mpepereki IN this instalment, we continue to interrogate aspects of Zimbabwe’s US...

Re-dollarisation: Myths and realities — Part Five …whose interests are we safeguarding?

By Professor Sheunesu Mpepereki WE continue to explore the various aspects of Zimbabwe’s US dollar...

Re-dollarisation: Myths and realities – Part Four …playing into the hands of our detractors

By Professor Sheunesu Mpepereki IT is imperative for local authorities to educate the people on...

How they plotted their downfall

By Professor Sheunesu Mpepereki HISTORY is a critical component of a people’s heritage.  People with no...

Heritage-based learning …what does it mean?

AS we continue to unpack heritage-based teaching and learning, which underpin the Education 5.0...

The ‘goblin’ called English

WE continue our discussion on the role of English language in blocking the majority...

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Leonard Dembo: The untold story 

By Fidelis Manyange  LAST week, Wednesday, April 9, marked exactly 28 years since the death...

Unpacking the political economy of poverty 

IN 1990, soon after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela, while visiting in the...

Second Republic walks the talk on sport

By Lovemore Boora  THE Second Republic has thrown its weight behind the Sport and Recreation...

What is ‘truth’?: Part Three . . . can there still be salvation for Africans 

By Nthungo YaAfrika  TRUTH takes no prisoners.  Truth is bitter and undemocratic.  Truth has no feelings, is...