Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 By Takura Zhangazha* This month Zimbabwe’s Minister of Finance will present the inclusive government’s last policy salvo in the form of the 2013 projected national budget. It will however be presented without the air of finality I imply here. That’s probably because it is an electoral…
By Takura Zhangazha* Some leaders within the mainstream Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) party in Zimbabwe have a tendency to reclaim direct and organic links with Zimbabwe’s grassroots when under sustained criticism over their policies or their performance in the inclusive government. In doing so they make reference to a person/character whom they refer to…
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By Takura Zhangazha* Reading Nelson Mandela’s autobiography in late 1997, I remember being struck by one particular paragraph that somewhat shocked me out of my messianic deification of the African icon. In it, he writes as if to make sure that the readers of his life story would understand that his decision to join the…
