Dr Ireen Mahamba

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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Our children, our first line of defence

ONE of our children from creche at Matenje Base in Mozambique showed its defence...

Not possible to undo the sacrifice of our liberators

Sometime back, one of the so called independent papers, the NewsDay claimed that Zimbabwe’s...

‘You cannot afford to walk away to nowhere’

THIS picture depicts the cruelty of the Rhodesian colonial regime. The heartless Rhodesian is holding...

The nightmare that ZIMSEC is

LAST time we said that what you want to teach is what determines your...

Where did the French wash their hands?

THE grandstanding of the French ambassador and their European relatives on the issue a...

What you want to teach is what determines your objectives

IT cannot work backwards. If you want to teach about love, respect, kindness, you state...

The children of Zimbabwe are the owners of this country

WHEN we teach them at all levels it is the one most fundamental thing...

Why is proposed curriculum not explicit on liberation war?

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They went to the school of Zimbabwe: Part Two …let’s not teach our children a wrong vision

IN Part One we discussed how the founding fathers of our Chimurenga war succeeded...

Zimbabwe is a unitary state

VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s exhortation to the nation recently that all should respect that Zimbabwe...

A glimpse into the psyche of a female veteran

Ndangariro Authors: Freedom T. V. Nyamubaya and Ireen R. Mahamba IFBN 0-908303-13-0 ON the very day...

Female combatants never objects of sexual abuse

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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...