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3 days ago |
nehandaradio.com | Luke Tamborinyoka
Memory is a site of the struggle. Today marks the third anniversary of the death of Alex Tawanda Magaisa, a prolific writer, a friend, a colleague and a former workmate. Magaisa died of cardiac arrest around 8am Sunday morning on 5 June, 2022 and Zimbabweans across the spectrum received the news of his death with great shock. Today, Alex, the boy from Njanja, lies still and motionless in the dark rictus of death.
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1 week ago |
nehandaradio.com | Luke Tamborinyoka
Today is 1 June 2025. A year ago to the month and following shocking revelations of the looting of public funds in what became known as the ZEC-gate scandal, Zimbabwe Anti Corruption chairperson Michael Reza addressed the press on 17 June 2024 and assured an awed nation that heads were going to roll. A few days later on 21 June 2024, this column made it clear that Reza’s promise to take action on ZEC-gate criminals was just hot air.
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2 weeks ago |
nehandaradio.com | Luke Tamborinyoka
Today is Africa Day, that hallowed day when we celebrate our beloved continent, its diverse people and cultures as well as its varied but rich resources that ought to bring positive change in the lives of the citizens of this blessed land. It is sad, if not tragic, that this year’s Africa Day comes at a time when as Africans we are not only at war with each other but have become a collective shame through the various acts of omission and commission, especially by our respective leaders.
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3 weeks ago |
nehandaradio.com | Luke Tamborinyoka
The time is exactly 10:47 hrs and the day is 15 May 2020, exactly five years ago to the day. On this serene Friday morning and under a cloudless blue sky, an ambulance screeches to an agonizing halt outside Parktown Hospital near Waterfalls, some 15 kilometers south of Harare. A visibly traumatized female patient, face contorted and hair dishevelled, is being helped out.
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1 month ago |
nehandaradio.com | Luke Tamborinyoka
Today is Workers Day or May Day; that special day when we pay tribute to the world’s working people—the rare breed of breadwinners in our communities that slugs it out under tenuous conditions to give meaning to the parlous lives of their children and other dependents. Indeed, today is a special day on which we must all accord due veneration to those who sweat it out every day to impact the lives of their families. Today, we salute those who toil every day to bring food on the table.
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https://t.co/nkXEMZgosX Last June, ZACC chair Michael Reza said heads would roll in ZEC-gate. Today, a year later no head has rolled and our Reza has not cut anything. So the month we begin today marks the first anniversary of the bluntes Reza in history .
https://t.co/jZMRL5cfYI Today is Africa Day. Our Africa has become a source of both pride and shame. Like an errant schoolboy before the school principal, Ramaphosa sat meekly before Trump as he tried to shoo away the outright falsehoods currently driving US foreign policy
https://t.co/TMqrf8tvwi The ED regime has not only been looting at a grand scale but has also been persecuting citizens through wanton arrests, abductions and even murder. Today, five years later, I retell the painful story of three brave women. Lest we forget