In early 2004, I travelled with media colleagues Luckson Chipare (Zimbabwe) and George Christensen (The Gambia) to Bamako, Mali, to attend a conference on what we called then “the information society”. The conference was part of a...
In 1996, the ever-affable, Colgate-smile Marshall Munhumumwe released yet another gem titled Ane Mari Ndiye Mukuru. It spoke truthfully of the dynamics in friendships and families – the loaded take the lead. The rich friend dictates the...
1991 was the year that the great minds at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund forced Comrade Robert Mugabe to drink some poison called ESAP (Economic Structural Adjustment Programme). Before that deadly drink affected all...
A few years ago, I worked for a private company in Johannesburg, and part of my remit was corporate social responsibility. The company’s flagship CSI project was a STEM physics and chemistry laboratory in Diep Kloof, Soweto....
A long time ago, when rabbits had horns, we lived in what was called a monomedia society. There were two sources of news and information – the newspaper and the radio. We called the radio the wireless....
Common Law with Mike Murenzvi
“If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.” – Louise Slaughter
After a two-week break, Parliament resumed this past week. Debate...
Recently, heavy rains hit a town called Mthatha in the Eastern Cape. The resulting floods killed 49 people across the province, but Mthatha was the worst-hit. On the day of the flooding, there were reports of children...
In 1991, I inherited some lodging place kumaStand in Highfields, Harare. What happened was that my brother Rex and his buddy Amos Mahundi moved out of a room in Fiyo, and I became the new “mukoma wekuseri”.
On 1 August 1982, Kenya Air Force private Hezekiah Rabala Ochuka attempted a coup d’etat against the government of Daniel Arap Moi. Ochuka, with dreams of becoming chairman of what he termed the People's Redemption Council, was...
Author Blessing-Miles Tendi has just returned with a new book, The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups and Diplomats. In this article, he revisits the mystery surrounding the shooting of Air Marshal Perrance Shiri, the fault lines...
