Common Law with Mike Murenzvi
“The evidence is pretty strong: if you have access to family planning and birth control, the abortion rate is going to go down.” – Bob Casey Jr.
Some time last year, I was warned by an exacting reader of this column, Michael Kaliika, to cease and desist from further writings on Dangamvura experiences. I promised this tough critic that I was done. However, for...
There is a new mini-series on Netflix called Adolescence. It is a story set in England and involves a 13-year-old boy called Jamie who is suspected of murdering a female classmate. I won’t spoil for you how...
Robert Nesta Marley died on 11 May 1981. He was only 36. Incredibly, by the time of his demise he had created an oeuvre of music that is timeless, conscious and eternally relevant. Marley chose a Jamaican...
The imposition of Zezuru as the standard dialect has done more harm than good, writes Douglas Mutepaire, sharing his personal experiences of language discrimination. To build true national unity, he writes here, it’s time we confront the...
Commentaries have long detailed, in graphic detail, how Zimbabwe sabotages itself with destructive economic policies. We know the how, yet there’s little talk on the why. Why do authorities happily preside over this brutal destruction of the...
It has been a spectacular six weeks of drama and seismic global policy shifts since Donald Trump assumed office. The businessman-cum-politician has looked at the US balance sheet and decided it cannot be business as usual.
On 16 January this year, my dog Bordeaux died. At sixteen years old, she was half-blind and hard of hearing. Where before, she had the energy of a nuclear bomb, Bordeaux now walked slowly and spent most...
I doubt that Evans Mawarire knew how #ThisFlag campaign would shake the ZANU PF regime to the core when he launched it by accident in 2016. What had just begun as a video post on Facebook by...
By Bernard Mukwaira
The historian Simon Schama in his great work of imaginative history, The Embarrassment of Riches, asks an intriguing question - when the Dutch consulted the Mirror of Time, what did...
