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Reflections Isdore Guvamombe
In the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, the war had raged on and the skies had not been very generous either. The year was 1977 and the war had spread throughout Rhodesia. The Zanla combatants continued to operate from Mozambique and remained dominant among the Shona people in eastern and central Rhodesia.
It was fast spreading to the west.
Zipra remained active in the north and west, using bases in Zambia and Botswana. They all met in the land of milk, honey -
Our Malawian brothers and sisters were incensed by our last instalment on president Bingu wa Mutharika. More than eighty comments coming from the Malawian society were quite revealing.
Some wrote with open minds whilst others wrote with shut minds. Some comments were very logical and showed a lot of depth, a few were quite humourous, others were highly emotionally charged whilst some were completely shallow and lacking in depth.
Criticism makes us reflect on what we write about, it opens up new avenues of thought bringing in fresh ideas and it also -
Catherine Murombedzi HIV Walk
“I suddenly fell very ill after delivering my son in 2005. I suspected I was HIV positive but did not have the guts to get tested. It was scary, so I kept telling myself that I would get well. “That I am still alive today is a miracle. I now move -
The mass media is to the general populace what the clergy is to the Church. Evangelism and the teaching of the word of God in the Church is what news bulletins are to the general public.
Both the mass media and the clergy serve a system for communicating messages and symbols to their respective audiences, having a compelling function to amuse, entertain, inform, and to inculcate values, beliefs, and codes of behaviour designed to orient people into specific institutional structures.
To sustain the inequalities brought about by class differences and interests, the role of the mass media has sadly been to -
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Kwaive nerwendo, rwendo rwekufamba
Irwo rwurefu kusina nemakombi kana
Idi kuState House kure!
Kurefu iwe, kure!
KuState House kure!
Chokwadi kure!
Kurefu!
KuState House kure!
Dare rakaronga kuenda mberi nehondo
Rikakumbira rubatsiro
Kubva kune shamwari dzedu
Masocialists vane mwoyo wegutsaruzhinji
Zvikanzi tumiraiwo vana venyu vauye
Vamwe kwaSamora, vamwe kwaNyerere
Vamwe kwaKaunda, vamwe kwaSeretse
Kurefu iwe, kure, kuState House kure!
Chokwadi kure, kurefu iwe!
KuState House kure . . !
This is the revolutionary walk from the late music supremo and Orchestra Dendera Kings leader, Simon “Chopper” Chimbetu -
“Dear Optimist and Pessimist, while you were busy arguing whether the glass was half-full or half-empty, I drank it! Yours Opportunist!” I do not know who came up with this telling quotation, but one thing I know is, it is pregnant with meaning and worth learning from.
It reminds me of another axiom I heard from the then independent candidate for Harare South constituency, Margaret Dongo, in the run-up to the Harare South by-election that pitted her against Zanu-PF’s Vivian Mwashita and one Joshua -
Today is April 14, a mere four days away from yet another 18th April, the day we commemorate our birthday as an independent, sovereign nation.
The year for that momentous event was of course 1980, a year that, read against the pain of a long war of liberation, seemed ungraspable, seemed unreal, quite unattainable. There is something so enveloping about a war, something so abridging about the life you live under conditions of war, that a day is long enough time, long enough planning horizon. Life gets that basic, that practical, that immediate, that circumscribed, that you hardly vision beyond your little life grinding tragically on, towards an uncharted, uncertain end. -
We can rewind the clocks to 20 years ago, when these homecoming shows started, but we are unlikely to see any individual who made as huge an impact, in his first month back home, as Takesure Chinyama has done
There have been a number of homecoming shows in Zimbabwe football from our superstars who have been blessed with the chance to play in Europe at some stage of their careers.
Moses Chunga famously became the first Zimbabwean football star to be traded to a European team in the -
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It is a tragedy that Africa has lost one of its illustrious sons, Bingu wa Mutharika the president of Malawi. What is more disturbing and shocking is that some sections of the Malawian population celebrated his demise.
The only crime he is accused by this thankless and heartless group to have committed is mainly centred on his very radical Pan-Africanist stance of trying to pave and chat a new way forward for his impoverished and donor dependent people. His major argument was that the Malawian general populace should not continue to be pawns in the neo-imperialist world -
THE story of Dick Deveranyika is hard hitting. Dick does not feel sorry for himself, but would not like to see the same case repeating itself without him educating the nation.
Dick tested HIV positive in 2000. He had been asked to take a routine test at the clinic when he went there feeling unwell.
Dick said the fact that there was no medication was frightening.
“I learnt of my HIV status in 2000 when I visited a local clinic with a terrible cough.
“Then there was no medicine and testing positive was a death sentence. The staff was not in a position to help much so the -
In 1980 in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, a comet or tailed star (according to village lingo) had uncharacteristically crossed the sky and seen by everybody. Thereafter, elders studied the stars with a lot of head shaking, speculation and anticipation of something new.
That night herdboys had earlier tethered goats to the pegs with sisal ropes. Soon the goats and cattle started chewing the cud, resigning to their routine nights.
Momentarily, the village was alive with children playing, their sturdy legs caked with a mixture of dung, mud and dust. -
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PRESIDENT Mugabe and the First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe have returned from Singapore where they had gone for the Easter holiday.
They were met at the Harare International Airport by Vice President Joice Mujuru, ministers Cde Webster Shamu, Cde Sydney Sekeramai, Cde Nicholas Goche, Cde Saviour Kasukuwere, senior government officials and service chiefs.
The Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces is expected to chair a cabinet meeting this afternoon.
ZBC this morning quoted Media, Information and Publicity Minister Cde Shamu commenting on the recent reports by the media on President Mugabe's health saying, "You all know about the issue of regime change. They have always been at the forefront of wanting to denigrate anything that has to do with the success of any revolutionary process not only in Zimbabwe but Southern Africa and Africa as a whole, but they will never succeed."
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In management theory, they call it “the sitting next to Nelly syndrome.” When one lives in an environment that is rife with speculation, rumour-mongering and sheer malice, there is a tendency that some of that can easily rub off on you and/or affect you positively and/or negatively.
I did some introspection, and am still doing so, and in the process I find myself continually asking: When Africa is in dire need of development models, is riding on the crest of other people’s successes the best way to display showmanship? -
What dominates the order of social and political life in Africa today is not exactly a true African identity. Rather we live in an era where white influence has so expertly and consistently associated the history and culture of Africans with the evocation of feelings of helplessness, shame, guilt, inadequacy, anxiety, abuse, social ridicule, social disapproval, humiliation, inferiority, backwardness, and lack of social and economic status.
So overwhelming is the aversive effect of white dominance that many of our people in Africa feel obligated to reject and -
The Bible clearly tells us that leaders come from God. David never went to Samuel seeking to be a leader. Samuel was actually sent by God to anoint young David as the future king of Israel.
Power hungry Absalom rebelled against his father because he wanted to take over his father’s throne. Little did this power seeking young man know that God had already chosen young Solomon to be the future king? Jesus’ coming was foretold long before he was born to the Virgin Mary.