Takura Zhangazha

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  • The Struggle for a Social Democratic Zimbabwe Continues. It has to and it will.

    By Takura Zhangazha.* When the inclusive government came into existence, discourse over and about the ‘struggle’ shifted significantly. Whether this discourse was about narratives of ‘arrival’, or alternatively, ‘continuity’, the conversations that were had were always inconclusive. In the aftermath of the July 31 2013 harmonised elections, questions that are now coming back to haunt… …

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  • Money, not Mind Occupies our Universities.

    By Takura Zhangazha The pursuit of knowledge of the academic kind is generally viewed as a virtue/arete. By this the inference is not a just a moralistic one but one that also resides in Plato and Aristotle’s understanding of the pursuit of knowledge. Therein knowledge is not knowledge for its own sake but for the… …

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  • Zimbabwe’s Social Media, Elections and Mobilisation

    Zimbabwe’s Social Media, Elections and Mobilisation. By Takura Zhangazha* Zimbabwe’s social media has had an ambiguous role in political events in the last twelve months and particularly with the yet to end July 31 2013 harmonized electoral period. Local ICT experts have lauded the expansion of mobile telephony and 3G internet as signifying definite improvements… …

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  • In praise of Thabo Mbeki.

    By Takura Zhangazha.* Former South African President Thabo Mbeki is rarely acknowledged for the positive role that he played over and about mediating the Zimbabwean political crisis from 2007 to 2009.  In making this assertion I am aware there are those who have controversially and without direct evidence accused President Mbeki of being sympathetic more… …

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