Author: Takura Zhangazha
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Remembering #Zimbabwe ’s Opposition Political Movement.
Click or not: Remembering #Zimbabwe ’s Opposition Political Movement.By Takura Zhangazha* Someone accused me of betraying the mainstream opposition political movement. I laughed out quite loudly. I have not been involved in opposition politics for at least eight years. I however am a founder member of at least two organizations in the mainstream civil society and opposition politics. The first being the National… …
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Creation and Control of Political Narratives in Zimbabwe.
Click or not: Creation and Control of Political Narratives in Zimbabwe.By Takura Zhangazha* Zimbabweans are familiar with the historical question that relates to “What made us?” In most cases the historical answer is the first and second liberation struggles against colonialism. The other answer is the fact of our economic suffering after the first eight years of independence when we underwent rapid economic liberalisation at… …
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A Needed Criticality On Narratives on Land and its Political Economy in Zimbabwe.
Click or not: A Needed Criticality On Narratives on Land and its Political Economy in Zimbabwe.By Takura Zhangazha* There is what should be a relatively urgent and revived “national interest” debate about land tenure/ ownership in rural, peri-urban and also former agricultural farms in Zimbabwe. This is based on the recent central government’s official policy announcing and effecting the eviction of what it considers illegal settlers on land that was… …
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Revisiting “ Educate An African Woman, You Liberate A Nation”
Click or not: Revisiting “ Educate An African Woman, You Liberate A Nation”By Takura Zhangazha* One of the most complex and limitedly explored subjects in Zimbabwe is Feminism. If you want a definition from me of the same, I will easily reply that I have only read texts on it as my claim to understanding it. But my view of it is that I have no wherewithal… …