Category: Culture
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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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Makandiwa’s “Main Actoring”: Religion as a Societal Ruse in Zimbabwe
Click or not: Makandiwa’s “Main Actoring”: Religion as a Societal Ruse in ZimbabweYou could almost laugh about it. Thousands of adult Zimbabweans flocking to a Sunday service to ‘see’ the power of ‘prophecy’. Over and about a US$ 1 million pledge on, you guessed it, the ability to prophesy what was in a religious leader’s pocket. These thousands of Zimbabweans were not only in the auditorium. They were also online and… …
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Undemocratic, Ahistorical Harare City Modernisation, Contradictions and Colonial Legacy
Click or not: Undemocratic, Ahistorical Harare City Modernisation, Contradictions and Colonial LegacyZimbabwe’s urban landscape is changing form quite rapidly. Particularly where one considers new modern urban developments such as shopping malls away from city centres or new residential housing in the form of either ‘flats’ or ‘cluster’ residential compounds and new low-income suburbs. This is also in tandem with the expansion of privatized social service buildings… …
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Zimbabwe Churches and the Dangers of Political Overreach
Click or not: Zimbabwe Churches and the Dangers of Political OverreachThe Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD) recently issued a statement on an issue which essentially waded into a Zanu Pf debate around extending the current president E.D Mnangagwa’s term of office from 2028-2030. I deliberately mention Zanu Pf here because this issue of 2030 is essentially a ruling party one. It obviously has national connotations… …