Category: Politics
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Mothers as Flawed Revolutionaries
Click or not: Mothers as Flawed RevolutionariesMothers are correctly sacrosanct in Zimbabwean culture. More-so given the popular adage ‘kusina Mai hakuendwe, kune rima’ (where there is no mother, you do not go there, there is darkness) is deeply ingrained in most of our national consciousness. Especially as popularized by Simon Chimbetu and the Orchestra Dendera Kings in the famous hit single “Kusina Mai”. Hence… …
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Africa and the Potential of a World War 3
Click or not: Africa and the Potential of a World War 3A young Zimbabwean cde asked me about the meaning of ‘global war’. His question was coming from a context of the general narrative of a globalilsed world war between Russia, Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). And of course the celebrity narrative or even movie like narrative that comes with pitting Biden, Putin and now… …
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Re-Explaining Zimbabwe’s Incrementalist/ Conservative Politics
Click or not: Re-Explaining Zimbabwe’s Incrementalist/ Conservative PoliticsWhat has brought contemporary Zimbabwean politics to where it is today? The easy answer is the Southern African Development Community (SADC) mediated Global Political Agreement (GPA) in 2008. While we can talk about the legacy of Zanu Pf’s rule, the liberation struggle there is always a time when the past meets the present. The past is never enough… …
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SADC is Organically Historical. It is Not Going to Go Away
Click or not: SADC is Organically Historical. It is Not Going to Go AwayThere are many conversations I have had with many comrades about the importance of what we now know to be the Southern African Development Community (SADC). And most times these conversations have bordered on the dismissively ahistorical. Wherein colleagues view SADC as this anti-democratic organisation in the region that is preventing new/ nascent opposition political parties… …