Shona

Rising comedian Dylan Brown says Zimbabweans across all ages should be proud to use Shona as their national language showing the depth of the dialect.
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By Simba Mazoyo There are so many words we swiftly use in our day to day Shona conversations unaware that they are not even Shona. Some are corrupted outputs of English, IsiNdebele or even Afrikaans. Below is my list of twenty-one such…
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Even though a resolution by the Binga Rural District Council (RDC) to ban the teaching of Ndebele in Binga schools is receiving sharp criticism from the Ndebeles, the Shonas and the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, the author of…
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AT least five primary schools in Matabeleland South have reportedly been forced to teach Shona as the indigenous language due to a shortage of Ndebele-speaking teachers as the issue of deployment of teachers continues to raise dust.
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ACADEMICS and the Bulawayo Provincial Education office have expressed concern over the employment of non-Ndebele speaking teachers in primary schools in the Matabeleland region saying this was contributing to the low pass rate at these…
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Are Ndebele men really more prone to violence than other Zimbabwe ethnicities or, is it really true that Shona men are generally greedier than Ndebele men? Has it been shown that, Shona people subconsciously take Ndebele culture and…
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A Harare man has appeared in court on allegations of beating a reveller to death as punishment for speaking in Ndebele. The accused murderer, Sydney Phiri (36), was arraigned before Harare magistrate Anita Tshuma facing murder charges but…
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BULAWAYO - War veterans’ leader Jabulani Sibanda yesterday increased pressure on Zanu PF regime change merchants and sellouts who connived to remove President Robert Mugabe from power with the Americans when he described them as worse than…
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Wealthy businessman Philip Chiyangwa might need to invest some lessons in preserving dignity for his ‘sex obsessed’ daughter Memory Chiyangwa who is raising eyebrows on facebook by using sexuality explicit language to talk about her…
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The labels of Shona (Karanga, Zezuru, Korekore, Manyika, etc), Ndebele can be considered superficial to a certain degree. We are all human beings faced with the same challenges and difficulties in life and desire for a better life with…
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