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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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Peaceful Demo: Part Eight…uneasy alliance of malcontents

AT the school where the man whose wife had refused to be touched had...

Peaceful Demo: Part Seven…Christianity is not a history of kindness or tolerancePeaceful Demo: Part Seven

THE peaceful demonstration was going on better than originally thought possible. Harare downtown was burning. The...

Peaceful Demo: Part Six…making Zimbabwe ungovernable

PEACEFUL marchers to the peaceful demo in town blocked the path of a tipper...

Peaceful Demo: Part Five…who defines values?

A BUS carrying peaceful travellers out of town had been stopped and was being...

Peaceful demo?: Part Four

A PIOUS woman supporting the peaceful demo had urged the youth: “Endai zvenyu vanangu.  “There...

Peaceful demo?: Part Three

THE marchers to the peaceful demo in town continued to snowball into a madding...

Peaceful demo: Part Two

TWO young men from the neighbourhood gave the man a knowing ‘big-up’ sign as...

Peaceful Demo?: Part One

HE opened his eyes to a beautiful grey dawn and instinctively reached out for...

‘We are our own worst enemies’

AFRICANS never seem to be getting anywhere because they have largely ignored the bold...

Candidate for Sainthood: Part Three …chakachenjedza ndechakatanga

THE African experience belies the flaunted meaning of ‘Saint’. ‘Saint’ invokes expectations of mercy, justice...

Candidature for Sainthood: Part Two…when villains are rewarded and true prophets vilified

VICTIMS of British imperial tyranny, who have invoked the UN-sanctioned democratic right to information,...

Queen Elizabeth ll’s candidature for Sainthood: Part One…a contest of belief systems

BRITISH QUEEN ELIZABETH ll was laid to rest after 10 days of national mourning;...

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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...