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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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Favour in context: Part Two …ancestral spirits vis-a-vis Christianity

SOWE rekuDomboshava had been the pastor’s choice. He had said that there was power in...

Favour in context

SOWE rekuDomboshava had been the pastor’s choice. He had said that there was power in...

Mt Darwin: The untold story

MOUNT DARWIN in Mashonaland Central Province has hosted this year’s national independence celebrations.  Mount Darwin...

Peaceful Demo: Part 17 …of rights and African sovereignty

THE woman who had been beaten-up by her friend’s housemaid had welcomed the diversion...

Peaceful Demo: Part 16 …the hidden hand

BY early evening, the divide between Harare North and Harare South had been fully...

Peaceful Demo: Part 15 …the reckoning

THE good shepherd’s predicament slowly unfolded before his eyes. Power had gone off the whole...

Peaceful Demo: Part 14…the aftermath

BY mid-afternoon, armed men of peace had overwhelmed and pushed the violent peaceful demonstrators...

Peaceful Demo: Part 13…the logic of madness

THE street dweller with a head as dirty as a public toilet mop did...

Peaceful Demo: Part 12…African leaders decry homosexuality

A PLAYFUL middle-aged civil servant wanting to make an older civil servant uncomfortable said:...

Peaceful Demo: Part 11…personal rights versus the rights of others

THE husband of the woman who had been beaten-up by her friend’s housemaid and...

Peaceful Demo: Part 10…glaring African contradictions

THE man whose wife had refused to be touched was showing his guests a...

Peaceful Demo: Part Nine…when push came to shove…

WAY, way, down kuHarare South, peaceful marchers on their way to town diverted their...

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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...