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Music legend Thomas Mapfumo on the current situation in Zimbabwe

You can watch the FULL INTERVIEW here: “You’re giving cars to musicians, yet they already have their own cars, which they bought through their own means. Why can’t you just channel that money to hospitals? Our roads are in a bad state, and people are living in poverty. Our fight is not for certain individuals to get a good living but for everyone to come out of poverty.”

WATCH: Zenzele Ndebele interviews Acting CCC leader Welshman Ncube

Zenzele Ndebele, who hosts The Breakfast Club, speaks to the Acting President of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Professor Welshman Ncube. Ncube claims the elected leaders in the party were no longer able to meet to make collective decisions to address the challenges they were facing and insists “the party does not belong to individuals.” In the comments section however citizens are dragging him for keeping quiet when Sengezo Tshabangu was recalling MPs and councillors despite not being the legitimate Secretary General of the CCC.

WATCH: Job Sikhala breaks downs during interview with Trevor Ncube

Publisher Trevor Ncube sits down to interview outspoken opposition politician Job Sikhala who was recently released from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison where he spent nearly two years without trial. Ncube asks him about the 595 days he spent in prison, how his oppressors tried to break him, blocking his family from visiting him the first 6 months of detention, surviving isolation and rumours by Counter intelligence Operatives to create hostility between him and Nelson Chamisa.

WATCH: Lance Guma speaks to Thomas Mapfumo in Leicester, UK

For over 48 minutes, Nehanda TV Managing Editor Lance Guma speaks to Zimbabwean music legend Thomas Mapfumo at the Novotel in Leicester, United Kingdom.

As usual Mapfumo pulls no punches as he reflects on his distinguished music career, family life, fight against oppression in Zimbabwe and looming retirement plans. He explains what made him dump doing covers of singers like Elvis Presley and Mick Jagger to singing Chimurenga music in Shona.

He has interesting anecdotes of the time he met General Constantino Chiwenga and how he knew Chiwenga would be a problem later on, why President Emmerson Mnangagwa is a bad leader, his relationship with Oliver Mtukudzi and how he recruited guitarist Gilbert Zvamaida from Zig Zag band.

WATCH: Lance Guma interviews Prophet Passion Java in London

Nehanda TV Managing Editor Lance Guma sits down for a one on one interview with the controversial and flamboyant Prophet Passion Java in central London. How does Java balance showing off his wealth in such a sea of poverty in Zimbabwe? Why does he support a President and government that prioritises posh cars for chiefs and fancy airports when there is no paracetamol in hospitals. The interview also delves into his personal controversies among many other issues.