Wilfred Mhanda

By Benjamin Semwayo Recently the Sunday Mail published a story in which Mr Johannes Chikanya, Robert Mugabe's 'twin', asserts that the latter is a prophet without honour in his own country and that people will only realise this when he…
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Ever since that fateful day, May 28 2014, I have struggled to come to terms with the reality that you have indeed left this world for good.
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Soon after independence in 1980, Zanu PF came up with the criteria to be used to accord hero status to the fallen nationals. The main criterion was one’s “consistent” participation in the national liberation struggle. The other was one’s…
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The recent passing away of Dzinashe Machingura inspired me to appreciate that we must never live our lives limited by the ideas of other men or their expectations of us because, in our graves, we shall be alone. Other men will never honour…
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When someone like Dzinashe Machingura dies we wish we had known them more, much more. We wish he had lived longer and given us more time to get to know him a little more. I had the once in a lifetime chance to talk to him after we started…
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HARARE - War veteran Margaret Dongo, has blasted Zanu PF for its failure to honour genuine war heroes like the late Wilfred Mhanda, whose burial passed unnoticed by the ruling elite. Mhanda, an indisputable national hero who fought…
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My first encounter with the late Cde Wilfred Mhanda or Cde Dzino as he was and will always be affectionately known by many, was a brief, personal but thorough impromptu lecture in the early 2000s. We had been debating the legacy of Marxism…
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HARARE - Liberation war commander Wilfred Mhanda was buried yesterday with vital body organs missing, family members said. Family and friends gave grim finality to the fallen war hero, whose nom de guerre was Dzinashe Machingura, as he was…
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