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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...

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Conspiracy on the Zimbabwean child

THERE is no child who is not endowed with sufficient intellectual capacities to manage...

Review curriculum again! …consider recommendations

IN 2016, there was a curriculum review.  One scholar, Dr Augustine Tirivangana, is on record...

Chimoio: Murder most foul

This story was first published in The Patriot on November 24 2022. YOU are standing beneath...

Zionist State out for genocide

THE Israeli Defence Minister has announced that Israel would cut electricity, water, food and...

‘I can hear the founding fathers calling’ …cry no more Zimbabwe

SOMEONE heard the founding fathers calling, heard the mourning of Chindunduma crying out to...

Happy 60th birthday ZANU PF!: Part Two …game changer

FROM November 23 1977 when the whiteman unleashed the worst inhumane act at Chimoio...

Happy 60th birthday ZANU PF!

IT is explosive! On August 8 1963 was born the greatest ever political party in...

June 16 is never over

THE cost of Africa’s freedom is measured in blood, sweat, sorrow, pain and tears. Let...

Lessons from Chairman Chitepo

LET us take a moment to honour and celebrate the architect of the Second...

Heirs of a rich heritage

‘ZVAIREVA vakuru zvaitika, Zvaireva Nehanda zvauyavo, Nyika yedu yatorwa navaeni, Zuva rayo rasvika!’ So we sang during the...

A thousand reasons to celebrate mothers!

SUNDAY, May 14,  was flowers, chocolates, perfumes, champagne and the like — it was...

Who is beholden to the British?

LAST week we wrote about the British fraudsters who spawned the Rudd Concession which...

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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...