Yearly Archives: 2011

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...

Think twice about ‘swagger’

I MET some adolescents talking about ‘Swagger’. They said it was the term of...

Slizer in love with Zimbos

HER agility and scanty costumes have attracted the attention of many a reveller. Her...

They never woke up ‘celebrities’

SEVERAL Zimbabweans think their celebrities never struggled to get to the top and yet...

US$ drives BBA housemates wild

THAT money is the sixth sense and you cannot make use of the other...

Zimbabwe Diverse, But One

ONE interesting phenomenon was that among the young Shona, the Ndebele and Gaza States...

Yes! Indigenisation will work

“NO programme will help small farmers if it is designed by those who have...

How Allan Wilson and troops were wiped out

By Cain Mathema IN July 1890, Cecil John Rhodes’ Pioneer Column, made up of policemen,...

Mashayamombe: The legendary fighter

CHIEF Mashayamombe showed prospector Henry Hartley a rich reef of gold on the northern...

1977 Mwenezi battle relived …my father was there

By Jeffrey Moyo IT is deep in the villages of Mwenezi rural district, in Masvingo...

The past Ray is afraid of

EDITOR – Ever since the US Ambassador Charles Ray urged us not to be...

‘Grundnorm’ for youth essential

WHEN launching The Patriot last month in Harare, the Chairman of the Zimbabwe Heritage...

Untold stories of the war …our mothers, sisters deserve respect

WHAT has remained stuck in my mind for a long time that I must...

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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...