Monthly Archives: November, 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 Act long overdue

By Tawanda Chenana WE, in the village, are delighted that Cabinet has considered and approved...

Chimoio 45 years later…

HISTORY has often been described as ‘the whole series of past events connected with...

Health delivery on spotlight

AS the country continues in its endeavour to leave no one and no place...

CALA a burden

EDITOR – I AM a school girl in Grade 6 and I don’t feel...

Difference between compensation and reparations…why history and language matter

By Dr Tafataona Mahoso IN previous instalments I pointed out that one of the paradoxes...

Peaceful Demo?: Part One

HE opened his eyes to a beautiful grey dawn and instinctively reached out for...

‘Western education destroying us’

By Nthungo YaAfrika COLONIAL imperial strait jacketed education commonly referred to as modern Western education...

Chimoio: The diary-45 years ago…Rhodesia’s Operation Dingo: November 23 1977

YOU are standing beneath the leafy trees of Chishawasha Hills, a plane flies over...

Qatar proves the West wrong

By Anesu Chakanetsa THE quadrennial World Cup finally kicked off on Sunday. It has not been...

2023 polls: Big money for NGOs

By Elizabeth Sitotombe AS the country heads towards the 2023 harmonised elections, groups being funded...

BRICS to change the world

AS the BRICS bandwagon continues to gather pace, muted conversations in Harare that now...

Not tears but pride in Chimoio

By Tawanda Chenana WE in the village remember Chimoio not with tears or pain but...

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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...