adminMandela monument unveiled
PRETORIA. — A statue comprising of 50 steel columns to commemorate 50 years since Mandela was arrested and charged for treason has been unveiled in Howick. Former President Nelson Mandela’s
Man gunned down in mine row
Herald ReportersONE person was shot dead while two others were seriously injured in Kadoma on Saturday in a long-running gold mine ownership wrangle between banker Mr Patterson Timba and businessman Mr
Biti incites tribalism
Herald ReportersMDC-T secretary-general Mr Tendai Biti has launched a tribal attack against Zezurus, saying the draft Constitution is meant to curtail their supposed dominance in the country’s body politic. He said the
Tavengwa fails in London
From Collin Matiza in LONDONYESTERDAY was another black day for Team Zimbabwe at the ongoing 2012 London Olympic Games when the country’s top female long-distance runner Sharon Tavengwa failed to last the distance in
VP Mujuru officially opens National Youth Games
From Godknows Matarutse in BinduraVICE President Joice Mujuru wants competitions like the National Youth Games to be used as the platform for developing sporting talent for the future. The Vice President said the Games should be
Dhlakama wins Cup in Swazi
From Noel Munzabwa in MBABANE, SwazilandFORMER Zimbabwe Under-17 and Monomotapa coach Rodwell Dhlakama tasted his first major success in Swaziland when he guided his Manzini Sundowns to a narrow victory over Young Buffaloes
Our army mustn’t be questioned
Gibson NyikadzinoWhile the West uses alleged human rights abuses in Zimbabwe by the military as the official basis of their criticism of President Mugabe’s Government, the reality of the matter is that there is a concerted
Steve Biko: Man who wrote what he wanted
Steve Bantu Biko, a political activist and writer, is regarded as the father of the Black Consciousness movement in the Union of South Africa. Biko’s short 30-year life was consumed with the developmentInside ‘State of the nation’
Memory ChirereTitle: State of the Nation
Compiled and edited: Tinashe Mushakavanhu’s and David Nettleingham
Publisher: The Conversation Paper Press, UK, 2009
When I received this book of poems, State of the Nation: Contemporary Zimbabwean poetry, its very