Evans Mushawevato

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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Thank you Tate Mnangagwa …with love from Bulilima

By Evans Mushawevato, recently in Bulilima, Matabeleland South MATABELELAND SOUTH calls itself a rainbow province...

This is Munhumutapa’s land

Recently in Chipinge HALF a decade ago and a month, the Second Republic was ushered...

CCC adores ZANU PF

THE efficiency and work ethic of ZANU PF has CCC leader Nelson Chamisa in...

Transforming lives through mining…Second Republic hailed

By Evans Mushawevato,  recently in Mt Darwin DEEP in the bowels of Mukaradzi, Mt Darwin, men...

A star in Zim skies

WHAT is very clear in the African rising narrative is the participation of indigenes...

Building Zimbabwe…brick-by-brick, stone-by-stone

ZIMBABWEANS love to gather. To celebrate, to commiserate, to help one another or just to...

Wonder in Macheke …as village boy comes home in a chopper

ONE of the last aviation acts by the late Captain Peter Chirimuuta, may his...

Untold story of empowerment

THE room is abuzz with almost palpable positive energy. Smartly dressed ladies and gentlemen, in...

Welcome home but…

DEAR deportees, only this once shall I refer to you by this not-so glamorous...

‘You still live Prof’

 ‘You still live Prof’  SHEUNESU MPEPEREKI.  A boy who grew up into a young man full...

The Patriot will not tire

By Evans Mushawevato IT has been a good 10 years full of all sorts of...

A mark of true Dzimbahwe

IN 1898, the British executed Mbuya Nehanda. A thorn in the flesh of the imperialists,...

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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...