By Dr Augustine Tirivangana
IN the anthology, Every Stone that Turns, Thomas Bvuma takes liberation beyond the scope of just the war of liberation.
Here is a revolutionary poet who understands that the liberation struggle is only part of an entire process of resisting all...
By Elliott Siamonga
THE usage of amulets and good luck charms seems universal stemming from the human desire for protection.
The existence seems to extend from the cave dwellers to the present.
As objects they come and go with fashion, taking on different designs and...
TWENTY four big wheels rolled past the bridge, past the mine and disappeared round the corner.
There was no time to contemplate what would have happened.
I crawled out from under the bridge and returned to my mine.
BV also crept...
By Steiner Mlambo
IN 1975 my father John Mlambo joined the liberation struggle.
Although he was still going to school, he knew that liberating Zimbabwe was a priority.
He knew his education would be irrelevant in a repressive environment.
Father talks of Cde Stansilas Chigwedere at...
By Maidei Jenny Magirosa
QUITE often, when we think of missionaries we have images of Europeans with Bibles coming to save the natives from sin.
A number of European missionaries had preconceived and negative attitude about the Africa, the people and the culture.
One early...
By Simba Jama
LUKE 13:32 The Pharisees came, saying to Yahshua. “Get out and depart from here for Herod wants to kill you.”
And Yahshua said to them, “Go tell that fox, ‘Behold I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and on...
By Munhamu Pekeshe
OUR small group of 10 had a whole luxury bus to ourselves as we drove from our lodgings in Pretoria to the airport.
We could all afford to have window seats to ourselves.
The bus took a route that passed through lush...
By Dr Vimbai Gukwe Chivaura
EUROPEAN fascination with the African body is unquenchable.
Both male and female bodies fascinate them and both are targeted for destruction.
The main focus is on the reproductive organs.
The intention is to stop Africans from multiplying and becoming a...
By Shepherd Manhambara
IN PART one we looked at how Europe relied heavily for over four centuries on slave labour from Africa to transform the wild forests and valleys of the Americas into the proverbial tobacco, sugar and cotton plantations from which stupendous profits were...
THE late liberation war heroine, Cde Bridgette Mugabe has been described as a caring woman and model of a true patriot.
Her humility and skills as an educationist and mother were ranked highly by those who gathered to bid her farewell last Tuesday.
Braving torture at...
By Evans Mushawevato and Emergencey Mwale
AIR Marshall Perence Shiri left for Tete and briefed Cde Tungamirai and Mark Dube of the decision to attack the Salisbury Fuel Depot.
“After the briefing, Cde Tungamirai instructed us to go to Tembwe and identify comrades who would undertake...
RECENT attempts by economist John Robertson to link the country’s economic decline to the Land Reform and Resettlement Programme of the early 2000s must be understood in the context of Rhodesians’ blatant disregard of Zimbabwe’s independence.
While it is clear that Rhodesians will not give...
