Category: Human Rights
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Politicised Rain and Undeclared Drought in 2025 Zimbabwe
Click or not: Politicised Rain and Undeclared Drought in 2025 ZimbabweAt the beginning of the year 2025, there is now some rain that covers broader parts of Zimbabwe. Our metrological experts had anticipated, via their own public pronouncements that it would rain significantly in early 2024 December. The reality of the matter is that no matter the science, the weather in Southern Africa is not… …
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Waiting for the Rain: Realities of Zimbabwe’s 2023-24 National Drought
Click or not: Waiting for the Rain: Realities of Zimbabwe’s 2023-24 National DroughtThere is currently a major drought in Zimbabwe. Its impact is somewhat not as felt in the urban as it would be in the rural areas of the country. In the urban areas it is more or less about the depth of boreholes and the setting up of support committees to deal with water shortages due… …
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Zimbabwe’s New Land Policy As Replacement Capitalism
Click or not: Zimbabwe’s New Land Policy As Replacement CapitalismBy Takura Zhangazha* Zimbabwe’s President Mnangagwa recently announced a change to land policy within the context of under what we now historically refer to as the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP). This was done at a routine weekly cabinet briefing by his minister of information. This new land policy essentially changes the tenure system… …
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Africa’s Religious Misunderstanding of Palestine and Israel
Click or not: Africa’s Religious Misunderstanding of Palestine and IsraelBy Takura Zhangazha* The much referred to Middle East has multiple and diverse meaning(s) for many Africans. The majority of these meanings are religious ones. Given our historical interaction with the slave trade, pre-colonial trade routes, colonialism and neo-colonialism, these ‘meanings’ of that geographical place that straddles what is referred to as the Arabian Peninsula… …