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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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The last lion of Zimbabwe stone sculpture

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About security sector reforms

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Ilotshwe ngu Alvin Madzivanzira yatolikelwa nguPatience Rusare UJOSEPH Sepp Blatter utshiye umsebenzi ngemva kwensuku ekhethwe ukukhokhela inhlanganiso...

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Kune varimi vechidiki varikudadisa

Nyaya iyi yakanyorwa naShingirirai Mutonho ikaturikirwa naRujeko Jangano KWABURWA zvakare mbeu yevarimi vatsva vechidiki varikukura nokukurumidza. Chikwata chevarimi vechidiki ava chakatarisirwa...

The struggle to restore our own money

By Dr Tafataona Mahoso THE unforgettable and humiliating pictures associated with the destruction of the Zimbabwe dollar...

Greedy Europe can’t stop migrant problem

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Call for Africa-centred approach to solve problems

By Tatenda Gapa THERE was a gathering of African scholars at the Afrocentricity International Annual...

All set for Sanganai/Hlanganganai world tourism expo

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