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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...
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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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Leopold II loots the Congo

BELGIAN King Leopold II’s conquest of the Congo was a brutal process and an...
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Of white settlers and forced labour

IN parts of the African continent where substantial numbers of European settlers had entrenched...
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African segregation and oppression in colonial agriculture

IN the middle of the 19th Century, the vast majority of indigenous people in...
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Traditional leaders central to land governance

TRADITIONALLY, the power to regulate land and its resources was vested in traditional leaders/chiefs...
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‘Absolute ownership’ unknown in African land tenure

THERE are those academics who contend that African indigenous law had limited scope to...
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Tribute to a patriot …farewell son of the soil!

FROM freedom fighter, to Premier and President, Robert Gabriel Mugabe was often referred to...
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Indigenous African property law vis-a-vis people’s obligations

DURING the course of my articles on the ‘History of land, agriculture and Zimbabwe’,...
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Towards gender parity…women empowerment in Zimbabwe

ALTHOUGH women in Zimbabwe constitute 52 percent of the population, they were largely marginalised...
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‘Never underestimate women’

WORLDWIDE, land reform schemes, in the past, have rarely worked to women’s benefit.  Often land...
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Why marginalise women: Part Two…socio-cultural norms negatively impacting female farmers

IN Africa, women’s representation in terms of decision-making positions inside extension institutions was generally...
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Why marginalise women? – Part One

IN Africa, women, in general, have been marginalised in extension services as well as...
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Agriculture: Women shortchanged

By Dr Michelina Andreucci WOMEN-headed households in Africa commonly face a shortage of matured labour....
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Leonard Dembo: The untold story 

By Fidelis Manyange  LAST week, Wednesday, April 9, marked exactly 28 years since the death...
Columns

Unpacking the political economy of poverty 

IN 1990, soon after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela, while visiting in the...
Sport

Second Republic walks the talk on sport

By Lovemore Boora  THE Second Republic has thrown its weight behind the Sport and Recreation...
Opinion

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...

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