Nehanda Radio

3 weeks ago | nehandaradio.com | Luke Tamborinyoka

An Introduction: The context Today is April Fools Day and many on this day are certainly going to fall victim to cheap Fools day pranks. And today in this column, in the true spirit of the day, we go for freaks, laughter and light-hearted banter. In most countries, Fools’ Day falls on the first day of April.

3 weeks ago | nehandaradio.com | Luke Tamborinyoka

Inscribed on the door of cell C6 of the D-class section at Harare Remand Prison is a simple message in the local vernacular Shona language: “Zvichapera boyz dzangu”, a telling reminder that the ordeal of incarceration always eventually comes to an end. Memory is a site of the struggle and today marks exactly 18 years to the day since my arrest and brutal torture with other party colleagues on 28 March 2007 on trumped-up charges of banditry and terrorism.

1 month ago | nehandaradio.com | Luke Tamborinyoka

Zimbabwe has yet again been ranked among the unhappiest nations on earth. Earlier this week, our beloved country was ranked 143 out of 147 countries on the World Happiness Index Report, faring better than only four countries namely Afghanistan (147), Sierra Leone (146), Lebanon (i45) and Malawi (144). Like every other people, Zimbabweans aspire for happiness.

1 month ago | nehandaradio.com | Luke Tamborinyoka

Some one-and-half weeks ago, under my column Luke-ing the Beast in the Eye, I penned a piece in which I named and shamed Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa and the elite corrupt, criminal network around him. The piece, circulated via whatsapp chat groups, was a simple compilation of names and the respective alleged corrupt deeds and shenanigans that are already in the public domain, having been published elsewhere on other mainstream media platforms.

1 month ago | nehandaradio.com | Tendai Ruben Mbofana

This is a truth every Zimbabwean needs to hear. Zimbabwe is a nation in distress, a country whose potential has been suffocated under the weight of systemic failure. Many reasons can be offered to explain why it finds itself in such a dire state. We can point to the unrestrained corruption and looting of national resources, a scourge that has concentrated the country’s wealth in the hands of a privileged few, predominantly within the ruling elite.