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2021

Family continue fight to get custody back from Mnangagwa’s son

The family of 23-year-old, Almarie Hall, who had an affair with President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s son, Kudakwashe David Mnangagwa, continue their fight to get back custody of the child that was born from the extra-marital affair that started when she was only 19 years old. Mnangagwa was then 30 years old and already had 4 children (all boys) with his wife Rashida before he met 19 year old Almerie. She fell pregnant a year later and gave birth to a baby girl (Harmony Anani Mnangagwa).

Dec 31, 2021 Read more

“Is there a divinity that shapes our ends?” – The life and times of Dewa Mavhinga

By Brighton “Dhambros” Mutebuka

“Shura Regore Riye Mukoma, Dewa Mavhinga Kwanzi Afa!” Warning – This Tribute Requires Huge Reserves Of Mental Stamina!

How fragile the gift of life is! How jarring bereavement is! Fie on it! A gentle giant, one of Hwirisha’s greatest sons ran out of time and was laid to rest last Saturday in the underbelly of Chikomba District to join his ancestors in answer to nature’s eerie, timeless, abiding and inescapable “tug” of death, culminating in the engulfment of his whole village and beyond in a melancholic festival of despair and mourning.

Dec 31, 2021 Read more

Luke-ing the Beast in the Eye: Electoral Reform must be the uninterrupted national chorus for the year 2022

Luke Tamborinyoka: “These kleptocrats want to continue stealing everything in their wake and it all starts by stealing elections. That is why the issue of comprehensive electoral reforms must be the dominant discourse in 2022. Indeed, the mantra in the coming year must be reform, reform and more reform. There must be reforms or else the deluge. If they insist they won’t reform themselves out of power, then they must for the national good be goaded and stampeded into the reform agenda, by any means necessary. Only a free, fair and credible poll and an assured process of peaceful transfer of power can stop this thieving lot that appears hell-bent on making Zimbabwe an upper middle kleptocracy by 2030.”

Dec 31, 2021 Read more

Let’s talk about Mudiwa Hood!

Maynard Manyowa: “I normally wouldn’t. But I must. This is Mudiwa Hood. For some reason people attack him every other day, often for no reason at all. I don’t understand. I didn’t always know Mudiwa. My first encounter with him was at Harare International Airport in 2018, on Sunday at 23:00.”

Dec 29, 2021 Read more

’40 000 people buried on a hidden and illegal cemetery in Harare’

An estimated 20 000 to 40 000 people are buried on a hidden and illegal cemetery in the catchment area of the Mazowe Dam and right next to the Mazowe River according to claims by a deported Croatian businessman who owns 49% shareholding in the company that owns Chikomo Chemhute Cemetery (part of Glen Forest Memorial Park). Joseph Richard Crnkovic claims he was deported from Zimbabwe in 2015 and declared a prohibited immigrant for disclosing that there is no approval from the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) to bury people on the farm and the cemetery was an illegal enterprise.

Dec 29, 2021 Read more