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Myth of Rhodesia as Africa’s ‘grain basket

THE myth of Rhodesia as the ‘Grain Basket of Africa’ was born out of the 1931 Land Apportionment Act and the 1952 Land Husbandry Act scandals and, it is consistent with the establishment of Rhodesia as ‘a commercial enterprise’, in the words of...
Sport

How Pasipamire outran a baboon and won a ticket to the Olympics

By Sheldon Hakata WHILE herding cattle in the remote village of Shariwa, in Bikita, Masvingo Province, some boys came across a troop of baboons and took after them. One boy outdid himself by bolting after one of the baboons and catching it. This, of course,...

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Columns

Torching of Salisbury fuel tanks: The untold story

THIS week, in Zimbabwe’s history, marks the 46th anniversary of the torching of...
Feature

Pupu in the context of the First Chimurenga

IN September 1893, makuva achirohwa and the dead being brought back to congress with the living,...
Columns

Season of conflict: A contextual analysis

By Mashingaidze Gomo IN Shona culture, the months of August, September and October constitute memorial...
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Favour in context: Part 19 …disorientation

SOWE rekuDomboshava had been the pastor’s choice. He had said that there was power in...
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Favour in context: Part 18 …reality check

SOWE rekuDomboshava had been the pastor’s choice. He had said that there was power in...
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Favour in context: Part 17 …humiliation of the MP

SOWE rekuDomboshava had been the pastor’s choice. He had said that there was power in...
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Favour in context: Part 16 …the merging of generations

SOWE rekuDomboshava had been the pastor’s choice. He had said that there was power in...
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Favour in context: Part 15 …spiritual connection

SOWE rekuDomboshava had been the pastor’s choice. He had said that there was power in...
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Favour in context: Part 14 …may day call

SOWE rekuDomboshava had been the pastor’s choice. He had said that there was power in...
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Favour in context: Part 10 …reality check

SOWE rekuDOMBOSHAVA had been the pastor’s choice. He had said that there was power in...
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Favour in context: Part Nine …faith versus reality

SOWE rekuDomboshava had been the Pastor’s choice. He had said that there was power in...
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Favour in context: Part Eight …introspection

SOWE rekuDomboshava had been the pastor’s choice. He had said that there was power in...
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Farming

Myth of Rhodesia as Africa’s ‘grain basket

THE myth of Rhodesia as the ‘Grain Basket of Africa’ was born out...
Sport

How Pasipamire outran a baboon and won a ticket to the Olympics

By Sheldon Hakata WHILE herding cattle in the remote village of Shariwa, in Bikita, Masvingo...
Opinion

Cry the wretched of the earth!

By Nthungo YaAfrika THE war between Russia and Ukraine, to conscious and positive spiritually...
Columns

Role of the masses in the struggle

THE Second Chimurenga was a protracted guerrilla war (1966-1979) that put paid to white-minority...

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