Daily Archives: Mar 7, 2024

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...

Why knowledge of toxic plants is vital to farmers

By Fidelis Manyange  LAST year, during one of my numerous visits to Matabeleland, I came...

Rural community ethos for development. . . . rural folk eye hunhu/ubuntu referendum, legislation, renaissance

By Vitalis Ruvando  THIS belated Christmas-New Year and Valentine message coincides with Black History Month,...

BRICS and the Zimbabwe factor

AS the globe continues to gradually drift from the West’s centuries-long hegemony, subsequently converging...

Towards Vision 2030: Let’s rethink and re-imagine our future 

BY Shephard Majengeta  IN a rapidly changing world, the business community has to make tough...

Of Government scholarships . . . fostering academic success and national development

 WE, in the village, value help and never take for granted any assistance extended...

Foreigners strike gold as Diasporans sing the blues

 By Kundai Marunya  “ONE man’s food is another man’s poison,” is an adage, or rather...

Creation story and His-Story unplugged

 By Nthungo YaAfrika  I WILL start this article by quoting chapter and verse from the...

LGBTQ recruitment tactics hit new low

 By Kundai Marunya  LESBIANS, Gays, Bi-sexuals, Transgenders and Queers (LGBTQ) continue to re-invent their recruitment...

SADC Summit: What we should know

WHILE the recent visit by the SADC Preparatory Mission, led by deputy executive secretary...

Mkwananzi in land grab …plans to claim surrogacy of CCC

 By Elizabeth Sitotombe  UNDOUBTEDLY the in-fighting within the CCC and all its factions has left...

Zimbabweans do not be fooled! …regime change agenda remains on full throttle

By Evans Mushawevato and Elizabeth Sitotombe WHEN it was all over, one could not...

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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...