Professor Sheunesu Mpepereki

Plot to derail debt restructuring talks

THE US has been caught in yet another embarrassing plot to grab the limelight from the country’s 44th Independence celebrations by derailing Harare’s ongoing Zimbabwe Structured Dialogue Platform on Debt Clearance by tasking its officials to bring into the fray issues to do with governance...

US onslaught on Zim continues

By Elizabeth Sitotombe THERE was nothing surprising about Tendai Biti’s decision to abandon the opposition's turbulent  politics by taking a ‘sabbatical’. The CCC has become nothing more than a playground for clueless political nonentities. Indeed, the CCC has not only been drowning in a sea of confusion,...

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Reclaiming our African spiritual independence: Part One

IN the last episode in this series we argued for Africa to reclaim its...

Restoring our spiritual identity: Part Two

THE prosperity churches have taken advantage of the economic down-turn in Zimbabwe to lure...

Restoring our spiritual identity: Part One

IN our last discussion, we called on indigenous black Zimbabweans to work to re-discover...

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IT was the English who revised the Bible to synchronise it with their own...

Tracing the Shona to their ancestral roots: Part One

IN the previous article we showed that right from their ancestral roots, the Shona...

Tracing the Shona back to Great Lakes: Part Seven

THE ‘Shava’ people continue to be actively involved in agriculture and in rain ceremonies...

Tracing the Shona back to Great Lakes: Part Six

IN the last article we identified the Shona as belonging to three primary totem...

Tracing the Shona back to the Great Lakes: Part Five

WE have attempted to throw light on aspects of the totem (mitupo) system among...

Tracing the Shona back to the Great Lakes: Part Four …totems and spirit mediums

SOME of the totems of the Shona were acquired as a way of asserting...

Tracing the Shona back to the Great Lakes: Part Three

WE have seen how the great Ancestral Spirit of the Shona people possessed a...

Nehanda: Tracing the roots of the great Shona spirit medium: Part Two

IN the previous article, we saw that a great ancestral spirit of the Shona...

Nehanda: Tracing the roots of the great Shona spirit medium

MUCH speculation and mystery still surrounds the origins of the great Nehanda spirit medium...

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Plot to derail debt restructuring talks

THE US has been caught in yet another embarrassing plot to grab the limelight...

US onslaught on Zim continues

By Elizabeth Sitotombe THERE was nothing surprising about Tendai Biti’s decision to abandon the opposition's...

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ZIMBABWE’S independence and freedom cannot be fully explained without mentioning one of the key...

Let the Uhuru celebrations begin

By Kundai Marunya The Independence Flame has departed Harare’s Kopje area for a tour of...