Category: Human Rights
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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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In Defence of Africa’s Relationship with USAID: Countering False Claims of Radical Pan Africanism
Click or not: In Defence of Africa’s Relationship with USAID: Countering False Claims of Radical Pan AfricanismWe 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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Global Online Free Expression as Cold War: Tik-Tok, USA, China and the Rest of Us
Click or not: Global Online Free Expression as Cold War: Tik-Tok, USA, China and the Rest of UsThe United States of America (USA) Supreme Court on Friday 17 January 2025 unanimously upheld a decision by both the executive government and Congress to indefinitely ban the hugely popular social media platform Tik-Tok. The main reason for this was/is the security threat the social media application would cause the USA from China. With the… …
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Government Enabled Water Barons: Waiting in Opportunist Profit Wings and a Disaster for Zimbabwe
Click or not: Government Enabled Water Barons: Waiting in Opportunist Profit Wings and a Disaster for ZimbabweIn the first calendar week of 2025, the Zimbabwe government announced its intention to privatize water in the capital city of Harare. The minister for local government, Daniel Garwe, in a recent press conference said the following, “Last week Friday, we were given the green light to privatise water services. We are now in the… …