Luke Tamborinyoka

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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By Luke Tamborinyoka Last Tuesday, 25 October 2022, was the day of the usual regional noise against sanctions. And yet it has always been as clear as a goat's behind that Zimbabweans are suffering not because of anything else but the…
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By Luke Tamborinyoka Today is Sunday, 30 October 2022. Exactly 17 years ago to the day, on yet another Sunday, 30 October 2005, my beloved mother Pelagia Tamborenyoka Gombera, nee Makumbe, passed on. By nature I have always been a…
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By Luke Tamborinyoka I have a sister called Patience and a niece whose name is Mirirai. Both names denote the importance of endurance and the virtue of waiting. Yet in the past few years, we have seen the advent of an impatient…
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By Luke Tamborinyoka Since 1996, the Zanu PF regime has been hollering and fulminating about the construction of the Kunzvi Dam. Yet nothing has substantially happened towards the full and total fulfilment of that perennial Zanu PF…
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