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Mother Poem – Kubvoruno Chekure (1978-2025)
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Mother Poem – Kubvoruno Chekure (1978-2025)

Mother Poem – Kubvoruno Chekure (1978-2025) As Sabhuku Chekure's wife, Grandmother hosted mass mobilization guerrilla meetings known as Pungwe. At Dick Rennie's farm in Chiwara – possibly the vastly diverting inspiration for a South African landscape painter by the same name – Sabhuku Chekure had been forced down a pit where soldiers took turns to jump on him. And now his young wife and son faced the firing squad. By Mukoma Onai/ September 2, 2025 Pano pane zvirango, ndezve paukama. Kapfuko kari pano ndeke zvirango"Pamusoroi", Oliver Mtukudzi (1978) His name, Kubvoruno Chekure, is doubly translated: Alien. And his Mwenyi totem means nothing less. The clan made various trading stops from the Horn of Africa but it was their fine arts and spiritual offices that commended them...