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The mountain is high
Back in 1926, America witnessed the clash of two African-African American giants — then they were called Negroes — over the notion of Negro Art.Was Negro Art a separate creative tradition ...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:35hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
There is no winner in every war
MORE than 100 days have passed since Russia invaded Ukraine and the conflict seems far from over. Civilians are undoubtedly the biggest victims.It seems the protagonists have abandoned diploma...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | | by Terrence Mwedzi
Colleen Bawn segregation: Spacious and crammed villages
VICTORIAN style houses surrounded by beautiful greenery on cosmic pieces of land characterised Village 1, a gated community for the white minority living in Colleen Bawn, Matabeleland South before the...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:31hrs | | by Yoliswa Dube-Moyo
Crossing the Limpopo River
NKANYEZI Dube is a 25-year-old young woman from Lubhangwe in the Matobo District of Matabeleland South. She attended Lubhangwe primary and secondary schools. She did not qualify to proceed to universi...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:56hrs | 1 | by Pathisa Nyathi
How safe are Covid19 Vaccines?
I first heard of it in January 2020 that there was a viral disease which was killing people in China. I didn't take it seriously . I thought it was going to be a Chinese disease which was going ...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 19:57hrs | 1 | by Etiwel Mutero
How safe are Covid-19 Vaccines?
I first heard of it in January 2020 that there was a viral disease which was killing people in China. I didn't take it seriously . I thought it was going to be a Chinese disease which was going ...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 22:54hrs | 1 | by Etiwel Mutero
Idolisation of champions of corruption
We are just two days away from celebrating Zimbabwe's independence from the shackles of colonialism. For some painful years, we have been trying to decide how best we can fight the cancerous worm of c...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 08:00hrs | | by Sharon Hofisi
Ndebele villages or regiments: Organisational units within the state
FOR about 25 weeks now we have been investigating the phenomenon of naming, initially starting off at the cosmic level but later getting down to the terrestrial plane. Our interest has been to investi...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:56hrs | 2 | by Pathisa Nyathi
2 failed marriages, a broken past define Mukanya
Two broken marriages, transition from village life to the ghetto, a miscalculated sojourn into the diaspora, failed investments, a broken youth life, all carved the character of this man. This...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:46hrs | 6 | by STaff reporter
2 more bodies of trapped miners retrieved
Two more bodies of artisanal miners trapped at Cricket Mine in Kadoma two weeks ago have been retrieved bringing the death toll in the disaster to 26.Deputy Chief Government Mining Engineer Ta...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 15:15hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Constitutional Court saga lawyers
My Advanced Oxford Learners dictionary says, 'saga' means a long story of heroic deeds, events or adventures especially involving several generations of people. It goes further to give the adjective t...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:36hrs | | by Morris Mtisi
Nathaniel Manheru resurfaces as Igomombe?
DEAR reader, we regaled each other leisurely under the eaves last week. But it can't be play, play, play forever. We have to get down to the business of interpreting our times, what with so much happe...Published: 15 May 2018 at 16:23hrs | | by Igomombe
Our bad patch called Nelson, more ambitious than Satan
DEAR reader, we regaled each other leisurely under the eaves last week. But it can't be play, play, play forever. We have to get down to the business of interpreting our times, what with so much happe...Published: 12 May 2018 at 13:23hrs | | by Igomombe
Keeping ZDERA alive
A key strategy of imperialism is raising false dust so as to cloud national focus and vision. Or to blur a clear identification and knowledge of who the real enemy is. History, including our own, is r...Published: 21 Jan 2017 at 11:16hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November 2016
Even in death the women are violated in Zimbabwe. I have in mind not so long ago, a body of a woman sex worker who was murdered, her body was found alongside the road, was photographed and was ditched...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 11:22hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
So how was America on November 9, and thereafter?
No surprises for me. Hopefully none for you too, gentle reader, if you didn't miss my September 24 and October 21 instalments. September 24 piece in part read: "However rough one finds him [Donald Tru...Published: 12 Nov 2016 at 18:41hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Political development is more than the exit of Mugabe
Political development is not the change of leadership in Zimbabwe. Political development is not the exit of Mugabe from our political arena. It could be a mere microcosmic catalyst that will trig...Published: 25 May 2015 at 07:20hrs | | by Tendai Kwari
Myths associated with lightning strikes
BULAWAYO-BASED scientists have disputed the attribution of recent lightning strikes to witchcraft, and have instead urged Government to implement protection mechanisms.This comes after about 1...Published: 08 Feb 2015 at 08:42hrs | | by Dumani Moyo
BaKalanga: Any links with the semitic world?
WE promised to interrogate the claim that the Mwali religion of the BaKalanga seems to have links with that of the Jews in Israel. The basis of the observation was the idea of a High God, Mwali who is...Published: 15 Jun 2014 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by Pathisa Nyathi Cultural Heritage
South African Critical Skills Visa List
South African Critical Skills Visa List, what you need to know according ...Published: 04 Jun 2014 at 17:31hrs | | by Robbie Ragless
CSC on the brink of collapse
THE Cold Storage Company (CSC) is on the brink of collapse and is left with only 600 cattle at its nine farms across the country. This translates to 66 beasts per farm, ...Published: 24 Feb 2014 at 03:15hrs | | by Walter Nyamukondiwa
Why Zanu-PF will rule for the next 50 years
A SOLIDLY empowered and economically liberated majority has been emerging at the same time as opposition politics in Zimbabwe has been relegated to bedroom buffoonery and Diasporan duplicity. The...Published: 02 Feb 2014 at 17:36hrs | | by Bernard Bwoni
When the dollarisation cure poisons
THE past three instalments have seen this column deal with sample thoughts on Zimbabwe, our country. Of course the underlying issue is a Lenin-like question: What is to be done. As you notice, I avoid...Published: 24 Nov 2013 at 12:46hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Malema & EFF are what the South African masses yearn for
WHEN the Zimbabwean-born and South African domiciled businessman, Strive Masiyiwa, voiced his concern about huge youth unemployment and the wakeful nights which that caused him, little did he know he...Published: 16 Nov 2013 at 03:08hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
All politicians are ugly
When you really want to stoke the furnace of misanthropy, the thought-ages to visit are the Augustans and the Romantics. But that is to reckon time by way of literary movements, something decidedly es...Published: 02 Nov 2013 at 07:18hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
'If I was Morgan Tsvangirai,' says Manheru
THE hardest challenge for any leader is dealing with the aftermath of defeat. Leadership qualities are taxed to the limit in an environment of increasing loneliness and encroaching indigence. The aur...Published: 13 Oct 2013 at 17:49hrs | 19 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Open letter to Saviour Kasukuwere
Dear Honourable For the last half decade or so, your name has been associated with the game-changing programme of indigenisation and economic empowerment in Zimbabwe. The onerous task of chang...Published: 17 Sep 2013 at 02:38hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga , Chronicle
The Ndebeles who succumbed to a manipulator
It is both funny and irritating. I am referring to current spirited attempts by strange people who had nothing to do with Zanu-PF, nay, who worked against Zanu-PF in its bid for re-election, to now s...Published: 11 Aug 2013 at 09:10hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
NASA launches rocket designed to study the formation of the first galaxy
WASHINGTON - U.S. space agency NASA on Wednesday night launched a rocket that carries the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER) designed to study the formation of the first galaxy.The ...Published: 06 Jun 2013 at 04:50hrs | 2 | by Tech Reporter
Africa: Divided, ruled, for now
Last week I gave you a perspective steeped in history. I am grateful for the polite responses I got, whether by way of counter-arguments or by way of polemical affirmations. Either way, the responses ...Published: 26 Jan 2013 at 09:30hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
MDC-T, case of party policy deficit
The past week has seen a flurry of suspicions and allegations of the fall-out between Morgan Tsvangirai - leader of the MDC-T and Tendai Biti - the secretary general. For some time there has been tal...Published: 06 Jul 2012 at 13:19hrs | | by Allen Hungwe
MDC: Building a war psychosis
In the early eighties I had a friend who worked in the security establishment. He was in charge of VIP protection. One day he was tasked to ensure a VVIP was transported to Kushinga-Pikhelela, transpo...Published: 16 Jun 2012 at 11:47hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zuma is coming on a rescue mission
Russia's Putin has won a new term into Presidential Office. With that victory comes a new ogre for Europe and America, both of which are already talking of discovering Putin's vulnerabilities for a co...Published: 12 Mar 2012 at 07:24hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Dollariastion was a Zanu- PF idea, Biti wants to give it an MDC-T patent
Restoring the Zimdollar at this stage is like swerving a combat body forward, baring the chest, stomach, groin and all.I am ...Published: 28 Jan 2012 at 03:59hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
The other Tsvangirai who stole the book
"What a dust thou dost raise! Smallest of mortals, when mounted aloft by circumstances, come to seem great; smallest of phenomena connected with them are treated as important, and must be sedulously ...Published: 14 Jan 2012 at 06:54hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Sangoma managed to expose how deluded and misled Mugabe has become
African Leadership: The tragedy of manufacturing godsThe president died laughing. Even as the angry young soldier broke from the parade shouting profan...Published: 13 Jan 2012 at 10:59hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Astronomers discover nearest pair of supermassive black holes
Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory discovered the first pair of supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way, NASA announced Wednesday.Approximately 160...Published: 01 Sep 2011 at 09:54hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Mugabe is expired political and historical merchandise
THE mentally "young" and politically "restless" Psychology Maziwisa has taken to political blogging with the gusto of an infant bird at first flight - unequal to the demands of the heights, rudderle...Published: 26 Aug 2011 at 11:11hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Civil Servants Pay: Goading the masses, cuddling the IMF
THE MDC have chosen a political response to a security issue. This column had given them a good tip on how to handle the matter, namely that they take up the matter through appropriate channels whose ...Published: 16 Jul 2011 at 06:33hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mapping cosmic rays in the Southern Hemisphere
South Pole - Researchers waiting for the completion of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have been mapping cosmic rays in the Southern Hemisphere. They discovere...Published: 03 May 2011 at 06:39hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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