Luke Tamborinyoka

By Luke Tamborinyoka Today, 23 January 2023, marks exactly four years after we lost the great Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi, the master of song who entertained and charmed this nation for decades. Today I republish an edited version of the…
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By Luke Tamborinyoka Today is Friday the 13th, that mythical day fraught with so many mystic beliefs. But that is a story for another day. Let me begin by saying that stories and scandals that make national headlines have a certain…
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By Luke Tamborinyoka Today is New Year's Day. Today we begin a watershed year in which Zimbabwe holds a crucial election that carries so much promise and hope across the sectors. For the country's teachers, nurses, our uniformed forces,…
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By Luke Tamborinyoka In 48 hours time, we are supposed to be celebrating Christmas Day, that timeless festivity that marks the birthday of the son of Man. In years gone by, Christmas was truly associated with happiness, camaraderie and…
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By Luke Tamborinyoka Zimbabwe is currently wallowing in pitch darkness as the ED regime fails to power the nation in spite of a 2018 election promise to provide electricity to the whole country. And yet as a people, we have always been…
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By Luke Tamborinyoka There is a growing cultism around the name and person of Emmerson Mnangagwa. The cult movement has relegated even his party Zanu PF to the periphery. To all intents and purposes, if the huge cult movement is anything…
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By Luke Tamborinyoka Going rogue is a phrase first used around the year 1835 to refer to elephants that had strayed off the herd and had become dangerous. Later, the phrase evolved to simply refer to people that had gone waywardly…
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By Luke Tamborinyoka Zimbabwe has emphatically affirmed its Zhing-Zhong status as Beijing's outpost (or colony) when her new Parliament building in Mt Hampden constructed as a "donation" by the Chinese government hosted two epic events…
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By Luke Tamborinyoka Hoist by own petard is a phrase first used in William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet To be hoist means to be blown up while petard refers to a bomb or a small explosive device. Hoist by his own petard literally means a…
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By Luke Tamborinyoka Today is the 57th anniversary of the Unilateral Declaration of independence (UDI) when the racist colonialist Ian Douglas Smith unilaterally declared independence from Britain on 11 November 1965. The UDI spawned a…
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