Category: Politics
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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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Zimbabwe’s War Veterans and Revolutionary Stasis
Click or not: Zimbabwe’s War Veterans and Revolutionary StasisIn the tragic crossfire that was Zimbabwes liberation struggle, I have only known at a personal level eleven (11) liberation war veterans. I can only name five (5) who are regrettably late but who also actively always encouraged me to tell stories of their own versions and roles, as they wrote or spoke of it,… …
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Was it Too Soon or Too Late? ZanuPf, Geza and Monday 31 March 2025
Click or not: Was it Too Soon or Too Late? ZanuPf, Geza and Monday 31 March 2025I have recently made very general comments about Zanu Pf succession politics as they are occurring in 2025. And their newfound contestations about current president ED Mnangagwa’s term extension beyond 2028. I have done this on social media and in one or two instances for mainstream media. This succession question in Zanu Pf has caused… …
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The Changing Character of Pan Africanism (Fighting Among Ourselves)
Click or not: The Changing Character of Pan Africanism (Fighting Among Ourselves)As an African you will regularly reflect on your being, your othered ‘blackness’ and also your material standing in a now highly globalized perception of what can be the ‘good life’. And in all of its mimicry of the colonial legacy of global north societies. Or if we were to be a little bit more… …