Daily Archives: Feb 3, 2023

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...

Wise words from President Lukashenko 

BELARUS President Aleksandr Lukashenko made his first foray into sub-Saharan Africa by visiting Zimbabwe...

VID move welcome 

EDITOR – VISION 2030 of an upper middle-income economy will be achieved by all...

Decolonising the mind: Part Six‘…no to Western propaganda and lies’

By Abraham Mabvurira  EVERY recipient of European education who has studied African history, juxtaposed with...

Peaceful Demo: Part Eight…uneasy alliance of malcontents

AT the school where the man whose wife had refused to be touched had...

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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...