Category: Human Rights

  • Kagame, Ramaphosa are Not Being Honest With Africans

    Kagame, Ramaphosa are Not Being Honest With Africans

    I have a number of friends in private business and by dint of the same, in private capital. Some of them are exceedingly wealthy. Others are in between.  They have phases where they are thoroughly rich and phases where they sort of get by. But maintain their exorbitant lifestyles.  This is all fair and fine.…

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  • Elections Matter: What Happens in Between them Matters More

    Elections Matter: What Happens in Between them Matters More

    Zimbabwean politics is as fluid as it is historically conservative.  That is it is not characterized by a specific dynamism of new political ideas beyond its existential history and culture.  Even with the advent of social media and its attendant populism.  Our national political character and culture since independence in 1980 which we recently commemorated in Gokwe,…

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  • We Are Not Numbers. We Are African and We Will Talk Back as Zimbabweans

    We Are Not Numbers. We Are African and We Will Talk Back as Zimbabweans

    There 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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  • In Defence of Africa’s Relationship with USAID: Countering False Claims of Radical Pan Africanism

    In Defence of Africa’s Relationship with USAID: Countering False Claims of Radical Pan Africanism

    We may have a new form of what I will refer to as a fake Pan Africanism in our African immediate consciousness. One that has recently found voice following the dramatic and tragic cutting of foreign aid assistance by the new United States government led by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Accompanied by the quite…

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