Zimbabwe Poets for Human Rights

21/03/2026

Why 1% is the Most Powerful Number in 2026 📈

Stop trying to change your entire life by Tuesday. ✋

The biggest mistake people make in January is the "All or Nothing" trap. They go to the gym for 3 hours, start a 5-stop skincare routine, and read 50 pages... only to burn out by Day 10.

The Math of Success 🧮

If you get just 1% better every day for one year, you don't just get a "bit" better. The math looks like this:

1.01 x {365} = 37.8

That’s not a typo. By improving yourself by a tiny 1% every single day, you end the year 38 TIMES BETTER than you started.

The Danger of the Slide 📉

On the flip side, if you get just 1% worse every day (by making excuses or cutting corners), you don’t just stay the same:

0.99 x {365} = 0.03

You essentially decline to almost zero.

What is 1%? It’s tiny stuff:

📖 Reading 2 pages instead of 0.
💧 One extra glass of water.
⏰ Waking up 5 mins before your alarm (instead of fighting it).
Stop waiting for a "lightning bolt" of motivation. Just be 1% less chaotic than you were yesterday.

The Bottom Line:

Focus on winning the next 24 hours by just 1%.

Comment "1%" if you're playing the long game! 🚀

24/10/2022

Background The Regional SRHR Fund seeks to support young feminist organizations, groups, movements and allies to shift dominant narratives, and to contribute to, and advocate for, the implementation of policies and practices that demonstrably reduce GBV against YWAG. The key approaches of the progra...

24/10/2022

Hooray🥳, the much-awaited newsletter,“
THE SAILORS REVIEW”, issue 63 is out and fully loaded."
“If I read it! Then everyone will read it"
Attached are a whooping 100+ pages of deep Art from Africa, USA, and the world at large. Who loves Art more than the Sailors? Indeed, we are the modern definition of Art in this world 🌎.
In this issue,
1. We have Art from Zimbabwe 🇿🇼, in the voice of Princess Musonza, Shoes Lambada, Elliot Sikweya, Brendon Chipandara, Progress Muwadzuri and Rutendo Sawala
2. Art from Jamaica 🇯🇲, in the voice of Mdara Richie Innocent, Queen Kamarla and Ginjah
3. 2022 Anita McAndrews Award Poetry Contest and Renee Duke Youth Award poetry announcement
4. New Poetry from Nigeria 🇳🇬, Kenya 🇰🇪, Uganda 🇺🇬 and United States 🇺🇸.
5. Artist Lounge in the words of Brenardo from United States 🇺🇸 and appreciating sign language in poetry through Poetry X Hunger: https://www.poetryxhunger.com
6. The Sailors Music Collection, the Sailors Bookshelf and many more…
Indeed, The Sailors Review is the home of Art in Africa and beyond!
Let there be Art!
Let there be Poetry!
And... Blessed be all Artists in this World!
This publication is worth your time and attention; as we are in the business of: “Grooming world class artists through appreciating poetry and other forms of art”
For quick download of this issue check out the Link below:
https://issuu.com/.../23_october_2022_the_sailors_review...
Yours in ink
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Takudzwa Chikepe

Poetry X Hunger: Fighting hunger through poetry

02/08/2022

Call for participants and partners for this year's International Literature Festival.

22/07/2022

ARTS and cul­ture organ­isa­tion Lit­Fest Har­are has announced the dates and theme of the 2022 inter­na­tional lit­er­ary fest­ival. e fest­ival is sched­uled to run from Novem­ber 23 to 26, under the theme “We are joy — Cel­eb­rat­ing the ties that...

21/07/2022

The 9th edition of the Harare International Literature Festival is here under the theme:

We are Joy - Celebrating the ties that bind us. Joy is the key to our humanity’s survival.

‘Do you see the mystery of our pain?
That we bear poverty
And are able to sing and dream sweet things
And that we never curse the air when it is warm
Or the fruit when it tastes so good
Or the lights that bounce
gently on the waters?
We bless things even in our pain.
We bless them in silence.
That is why our music is so sweet.
It makes the air remember.’
-excerpt from An African Elegy, Ben Okri

All around the world we have been terrorised, battered; catastrophe has set up camp at our
doorsteps. In spite of all this, we at LitFest Harare choose joy: to gather and celebrate its
expressions; to delve into the euphoria we experience in the worlds of words. This November let
us convene in a space of healing, of strength to gain grounding as we acknowledge the
similarities in our diversity. The tree that grows is the one that's watered. We choose to nourish
and cultivate what we as humans have in common; there is much more than what divides us.
Let us explore those ties, and bind them stronger.

24/06/2022

Introducing our Thandokuhle Sibanda, also as "Thandoe" is a 22-year-old slam champion, poet from Bulawayo Zimbabwe. Her poetry journey begins in her early teens when she learns how to cope with the noises around her and works her way towards her center.

Her first stage appearance was at Bulawayo 120 years, commemoration under the mentorship of renowned poet and actress Sithandazile Dube She then became part of "Starbrite", a National Talent show where she became one of the few poets to make it to the finals two seasons in a row alongside Tanaka Ects Chuma. Thandoe won the Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe and Intwasa ARTS Festival koBULAWAYO poetry slams in 2019, she is also a two time Bulawayo Arts Awards nominee for outstanding poet and outstanding community engagement,

She has performed on several other stages both nationally and internationally, and worked with some of the greatest names in the Zimbabwean arts sector including Mhlanga, Simon Mambazo Phiri, Nkwali, Thandi Dhlana, Sithandazile Dube, Sox The Poet and Iyasa. She has also shared the stage with great talent such as Bastirai Chigama, Tinashe Tafirenyika, Philani A. Nyoni, Delah Dube, Zolani Mkhiva, ASA, Solomon Joseph, Siphokazi Jonas, Masa and the band, Edith Wewutonga, Asaph and Holy Ten.

Connect with Thandoe on
Facebook: Tinkie Thando Thandoe 'thae' Sibanda
Instagram:
Youtube: https://youtu.be/2bcw7IMbX9Q

19/06/2022

Read the quiz below. The answer is a popular proverb.