Daily Archives: Sep 2, 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 in Zim: Part 24…birth of regime-change proxies

THE indispensability of a patriotic front to the survival of Zimbabwe was tested right...

Keeping the eye on the ball

By Tawanda Chenana ‘TRANSPORT operators and businesspeople hail roads rehabilitation’, ‘New era for Beitbridge’, ‘Rural...

Our farmers continue to shine

ZIMBABWE’s Land Reform and Resettlement Programme had many spelling doom for the nation but...

By-election results a useful barometer

THE trouncing of the opposition in last week's Gokwe- Kabuyuni by-election, together with the...

Something amiss at ZUPCO

EDITOR – THERE is something seriously wrong at our major public transport operator, ZUPCO.  There...

What’s a free and fair election?

A STUPEFYING combination of naivety and fatuous detachment from history, even when it is...

Of public safety and national security‘…surrender illegal firearms’

By Tapiwa Bere LEGAL scholars term public safety as the protection of the general populace.  Gun-related...

Zimbabwean remittances worry US as FATF threatens to grey-list SA

By Rutendo Matinyarare THE UK and South African remittances to Zimbabwe by Zimbabweans in those...

Greeks plagiarised!…it’s black, not white civilisation

By Nthungo YaAfrica  THE academic and intellectual world says the Greeks civilised the world, yet...

Money and the pursuit of wealth: Part 35… of Africans as a commodity

THE arrival of the slave trade altered the structure of tribal life in Africa.  Warfare...

Reliving Chimoio‘…Zim and Mozambique are one’

Recently in Chimoio, Mozambique WE were in Chimoio, Mozambique, last week, after a very long...

Aquaculture and fisheries in Zim: Part Two‘…let’s not lag behind’

FISH harvesting, handling, processing and distribution provides livelihood for millions of people as well...

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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...