Year: 2011

Don’t Rush to ‘Unbundle’ the National Railways of Zimbabwe. By Takura Zhangazha. There is a lot of media and political attention over state parastatals and their performance of late. It is fair to say that this sort of attention being given to state enterprises is important and necessary in order for them to be reformed… …

This October should be Zimbabwe’s Samora Machel Month. By Takura Zhangazha. We all cried on October 19, 1986. I was nine, my brother was eleven and my sisters were seven and three years old.  It had just been announced that Samora Moises Machel, President of the Republic of Mozambique, had died in an aeroplane crash… …

The Inclusive Government’s Disconnect with the People. In travelling across the greater parts of Zimbabwe, one is struck by the ‘life goes on’ way of existence of many of the country’s citizens. From the small rural shopping center (Birchenough Bridge), to the still sleepy  iron ore mining city (Kwekwe) and the welcoming second largest city… …

The mobile internet and the ‘reinvention’ of the Africans. By Takura Zhangazha We are potentially all the same now. And that is thanks to that gadget we call the cellular or mobile telephone. It is thing that should make us all very grateful to whoever is credited with inventing the gadget. This gratitude however depends… …