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...

