Nehanda Radio

1 week 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.

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.

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.

1 month ago | nehandaradio.com | Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Will we ever finally learn the brutal truth? There have been recent calls by some human rights activists in Zimbabwe for the Commonwealth to delay any possible readmission of Zimbabwe back into the group of largely former British colonies. This comes in the wake of a resurgence of human rights violations and repression by the Emmerson Mnangagwa administration.

1 month ago | nehandaradio.com | Luke Tamborinyoka

Today is not only Independence Day but it is also Easter Friday; that momentous day when Jesus Christ was crucified on the Cross at Golgotha. Christians will use this day to prayerfully reflect on the sacrifice by the Son of Man who paid the ultimate price to save humanity from her collective mortal frailties and inadequacies.