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Did Mtukudzi speak his troubled life in song?
"TATSAUKA pano nekuti paita Tuku, (We passed by because you are playing Tuku music)" my late brother Johannes and his friend Evaristo Chiwara once told merrymakers in Rimuka, Kadoma, in the late 1990s...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:03hrs | 3619 | by Moses Chibaya
Gift Nyoni wins UK writers award
Zimbabwean-born writer Gift Nyoni has continued to lift the Zimbabwean flag in the United Kingdom and recently won the New Black and Minority ethnic writers award.Nyoni won the New Black and M...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Business has learned nothing and forgot nothing
SO there was this prominent businessman-cum-pastor who was obsessed with religiously lampooning politicians as occultic during his daily sermons.Preaching from his moral high horse, the raboni...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 09:50hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Mnangagwa not worried about Ramaphosa speech in Tanzania
The president of South Africa Mr C Ramaphosa paid tribute to the countries he said helped and fought with ANC to remove Apartheid in South Africa. Mr Ramaphosa thanked Tanzania for being the centre an...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 10:24hrs | 14 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The bane of deadbeat intellectuals
Talent seems to come with more than its fair share of baggage.Most often than not, gifted personalities belong to a pantheon of living gods that wow the world during their time in the limeligh...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 06:58hrs | 15 | by Bishop Lazarus
Soul Jah Love, Dambudzo Marechera: Drawing parallels and their contribution to Zim Culture and Cultural Diplomacy
After an avalanches of tributes have already written on and about Soul Musaka aka Soul Jah Love the Zimdancehall maestro, whose untimely demise on 16 February 2021 gripped the nation with sorrow, ther...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 11:56hrs | 12 | by Taurai Mutoti
Book Fair to shift focus
THIS year's edition of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) will shift focus from its traditional ways of looking at challenges faced by the industry and concentrate on milestones and opportuni...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZIBF calls for papers ahead of this year's book fair
ZIMBABWE International Book Fair (ZIBF) interim chairman Jasper Maenzanise yesterday said this year's edition of the book fete will present stakeholders an opportunity to celebrate the milestone achie...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
When seers failed to see the Ides of March
Bishop Lazi always tells his followers that as a people, we have been involved in a brutal rat race for the past two decades as we struggled for survival in choppy economic conditions.But the ...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 22:24hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi
Please Mthuli, tax these bastards!
"The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised."Hallelujah!A story is often told of how Charles Mungoshi was once invited for a book reading of his Sho...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Bishop Lazarus
Farewell Dr. Charles Muzuva Mungoshi
As I did farewell our champion, hero, mind liberator and academic warrior, I must admit that we have been left with a seat too high to occupy and a bar not that easy to reach. We shall write but the s...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 11:00hrs | 14 | by Tapiwa Kapurura
Tafataona Mahoso: A man of many hats
Rupise: Poetry of Love, Separation and Reunion 1977-2017; By Tafataona Mahoso; Mutare, Samwasika Heritage Products.136 PagesISBN: 978-1-7706-070-9 (Paperback)INDEED Tafataona M...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 16:09hrs | 52 | by Staff writer
From November coup to austerity
We are back again to where Dambudzo Marechera was screaming, in an Oracle to the Povo, drawing harrowing pictures "Of lean harried squatters, . . . And fat pompous armed overlords." But we mus...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 10:11hrs | 1 | by Tinashe L. Chimedza & Tamuka C. Chirimambowa
Other factors sustaining the 'regime-change' agenda
On 01 June, 2017 Bulawayo welcomed the launch of the Blues Café, a new creativity nest ideally founded to contain the creative capacity the City of Bulawayo.The launch of this arts hub is a w...Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 10:59hrs | 3 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
We are not South Africans
Denial or deceit: these are the two dominant impulses between which vexed life hovers. And vexations come both by way of agonising expectations, or by way of deep fears, especially fears of hazards on...Published: 29 Oct 2016 at 16:26hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Manyika launches second book
USA-based writer Sarah Ladipo Manyika has published a second novel titled "Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun" (2016, Cassava Republic Press) which she officially launched last Saturday afterno...Published: 20 Jul 2016 at 06:40hrs | 49 | by Beaven Tapureta
A dedication to the International Women's Day
Were we not told our mother was the best? Of course, we had no choice in the matter and had no chance in hell or heaven to get a better or worse one.Of course we knew she could hurt us. ...Published: 08 Mar 2016 at 15:39hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
MDC-T member now using Baba Jukwa Facebook profile photo
An MDC-T member Chalton Hwende seem to have taken over the profile picture that was used by a faceless character Baba Jukwa on Facebook as most of his posts on the social media are accompanied by the ...Published: 14 Feb 2016 at 10:36hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
I owe no one any apology about Obama, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I notice that my detractors and their local handlers have decided to mislead our people into believing that because I decided not to be in Addis Ab...Published: 30 Jul 2015 at 07:34hrs | | by CZ
Africa Day Message
Africa today has become a theatre of horror and a personification of misery, destitution and anguish. The post independence era in Africa has borne witness to political brutality spearheaded b...Published: 25 May 2015 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Job Mhende
When the bitch is back in heat!
I WILL share this one with you my reader. After all, my performance in the past weeks has been culpably erratic.So this other day a friend taps my shoulder, a sure sign aida kundibatisa (to co...Published: 21 Mar 2015 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zimbabwean tables must serve what Zimbabwean farms produce
One riotous evening in the eighties, the late Dambudzo Marechera started his vivid address to a writers' indaba by what seemed a senseless, irreverent postulate: "We are a sexually active nation!"...Published: 14 Feb 2015 at 11:49hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Prophet assumes overnight celebrity status over love portions
IT only takes an instant to become a nonentity opined Zimbabwe's celebrated writer Dambudzo Marechera in one of his famous books, Black Sunlight.But the opposite of the statement seems to be t...Published: 25 Nov 2014 at 09:22hrs | 20 | by Gibson Mhaka
Robert Mugabe, Power, and the Jonathan Moyo Effect in Zimbabwe
Contrary to prevalent opinion, Professor Jonathan Moyo's trouble with Robert Mugabe and some die-hard Zanu-PF old guards did not suddenly explode with Mugabe's tirade at the burial of Nathan Shamuyar...Published: 10 Jun 2014 at 16:24hrs | 5 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Hosiah Chipanga denies that 'he is mad'
MUSICIAN Hosiah Chipanga says he has been labelled a madman on several occasions because of his weird ideas and unpredictable activities.The Mutare-based musician claims he is never offended b...Published: 18 Sep 2013 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Arts reporter
The secret war raging on amongst the Zimbabwe - diaspora
Currently within Toronto a debate is being discussed on whether sex-education needs to be overhauled to include homosexuality, and transgender updates in the curriculum; whilst also introducing ...Published: 05 Jun 2013 at 16:27hrs | | by Tsungai Chipato
Steve Biko and the 'curse' of Blacks
Africa is like a drunkard with a hangover. In trying to rid himself of such a condition he takes another glass of beer, followed by another until he ends up being stony drunk. The continent resembles ...Published: 20 Feb 2012 at 11:59hrs | | by Bowden Mbanje and Darlington Mahuku
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