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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Early childhood education off track…let them be children

THERE are many things that are happening in early childhood education institutions, in ECD...

Nation robbed of greatest resource…rise up heirs of Zimbabwe

“REVOLUTION has been about land everywhere in the world. It is about land because...

Who has jurisdiction over this land?

Our land is a great gracious gift from Musikavanhu. We are the custodians of this...

Who has jurisdiction over this land?

Our land is a great gracious gift from Musikavanhu. We are the custodians of this...

We must defend the soul of the nation: Part Three…of prostitution and the law

THERE is this house in the business section of the Avenues area in Harare.  I...

Defending the soul of the nation: Part Two

SHE is a most especial mother who has refused to be at peace with...

‘Let’s defend the soul of the nation’…our children are precious

“For a nation without a soul is dead, it is up for the vultures...

A disappearing legacy…remembering formation of ZANU

THERE was shock and disappointment when the media did not build up to Heroes...

Let the children play

WHOEVER said a curriculum cannot succeed unless the learners are caged all year round...

Revisiting the National Schools Pledge

THESE children whom you neglect to teach the correct path are the very ones...

Celebrating African personhood

WHAT does it mean to be an African without the values, attitudes, and feelings...

‘We have not forgotten who we are’…a plea for the right to return

THIS week I present to you a plea I received from an American brother.  Below...

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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...