Author: Takura Zhangazha
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We Are Not Numbers. We Are African and We Will Talk Back as Zimbabweans
Click or not: We Are Not Numbers. We Are African and We Will Talk Back as ZimbabweansThere is an ease with which we as Zimbabweans refuse to discuss international/foreign aid to our national existential circumstances. And here I am not yet talking about the Private Voluntary Organisations Act (PVOA) signed into law last Friday. Together with self-censorship about what the recent closure of the United States Agency of International Development (USAID)… …
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Conversing with Zimbabwe’s Rural Life: Bikita and Being
Click or not: Conversing with Zimbabwe’s Rural Life: Bikita and BeingI am from Bikita, Masvingo province in Zimbabwe. I was born there. But I grew up in Harare with the regular school holiday visit during public holidays. As instructed and directed by my mother and father. Upon attaining adulthood and sort of passing my Advanced Level courses and arriving at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ)… …
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Zimbabwe’s War Veterans and Revolutionary Stasis
Click or not: Zimbabwe’s War Veterans and Revolutionary StasisIn the tragic crossfire that was Zimbabwes liberation struggle, I have only known at a personal level eleven (11) liberation war veterans. I can only name five (5) who are regrettably late but who also actively always encouraged me to tell stories of their own versions and roles, as they wrote or spoke of it,… …
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Was it Too Soon or Too Late? ZanuPf, Geza and Monday 31 March 2025
Click or not: Was it Too Soon or Too Late? ZanuPf, Geza and Monday 31 March 2025I have recently made very general comments about Zanu Pf succession politics as they are occurring in 2025. And their newfound contestations about current president ED Mnangagwa’s term extension beyond 2028. I have done this on social media and in one or two instances for mainstream media. This succession question in Zanu Pf has caused… …