The last week in Zimbabwe saw all of us come to terms with the history of our country’s war of liberation. On Monday 15 August, Wilfred Mhanda (Chimurenga name Dzinashe Machingura) launched his memoirs titled Dzino. Memories of a Freedom Fighter. The celebrated deputy political commissar of the Zimbabwe Peoples Army (ZIPA) had finally put…
The inclusive government’s politics of the belly. By Takura Zhangazha.* A friend of mine who comes from Rusape, upon reading the Daily News on Sunday, 14 August 2011, phoned me to express his anger at the story of government ministers who had been given new luxury vehicles. He explained that his anger was not simply…
The SADC season is upon us, again. By Takura Zhangazha. A few days before the 31st Ordinary SADC Summit of heads of state and government in Luanda, Angola on 16 August 2011, Zimbabwe and its government leaders are preparing themselves for their almost quarterly slanging match in another country which is not theirs. Now there…
Tribute to Professor Mukonoweshuro. By Takura Zhangazha. I first encountered Professor Eliphas Mukonoweshuro in 1997 in the office of the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Zimbabwe. I knew nothing of the University then, save for what my brother Witness Zhangazha had taught and told me. And I was thoroughly…
