Yearly Archives: 2021

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...

Vaccine apartheid haunts the West

THE travel ban imposed on Southern Africa by the West following the announcement of...

Alternate systems of governance …Western ‘democracy’ not the alpha and omega

WESTERN ‘democracy’ has limited and inhibited progress and development in developing countries; it is...

Black US Ambassadors accredited to Zim: Part Seven‘… will you buy out the white farmers?’

THE Battle of Mavhonde, coming shortly after Mapai, had again dismally failed to strengthen...

Why we must never forget

OUR detractors often hold the mistaken view that the Second Chimurenga and the Land...

We are no longer a British colony

AS the Western-backed MDC Alliance and civic society organisations appear to be losing ground...

People’s budget boost for Zim

EDITOR – I WOULD like to commend Government for unveiling a people-oriented budget which...

ZIFA cannot hold the nation to ransom

WE are going to get straight to the point and state that we are...

Agric, global warming and food security in Zim

CLIMATE CHANGE is “…a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that...

Religion and colonisation: Part 13 …the rise of African initiated churches

TODAY, there are thousands of African initiated churches (AICs) found all across Africa. It is...

Black people respected women …the origin of gender-based violence on the motherland

By Nthungo YaAfrika MANY women organisations dealing with gender-based violence on the motherland always lampoon...

Boost for fish farmers in Kariba

OVER the years, fish production at Lake Kariba and the Zambezi River has been...

Chimoio the last bridge: Part One

RHODESIANS described Chimoio (November 23 1977) as the “…most mind-boggling special operations victory in history,” when in...

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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...