Monthly Archives: June, 2022

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...

Patriotic front formations: Part 17…when Christian education moulded revolutionaries

JOSHUA NKOMO, Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole, Hebert Chitepo, Robert Mugabe and Bishop Abel Muzorewa are...

Young farmers boosting agric production

THE economic development mantra adopted by the Second Republic, of ‘building the nation brick-by-brick’,...

Erasing of blacks from the Bible

By Nthungo Ya Afrika HIS-STORY in the Old Testament does not cover all biblical events. This...

Forty-two years of cultural evolution in Zim….. are we open for business?

EVERY nation has a cultural expression. The culture, the dynamism of the arts and the...

Black skin, white masks

IN recent weeks, Newsday has been irate about, berating and denigrating, the accreditation of...

Money, Money, money: Part 20….Mwenemutapa and Changamire rivalry

RUINS of the Great Zimbabwe, situated on the edge of the Zimbabwe plateau just...

Liverpool supporters teargassed in France

BRITISH football fans and officials on Sunday condemned French police for using tear gas...

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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...