The Marange Diamonds US$2 billion: The people vs potential oligarchs. By Takura Zhangazha. The Newsday of 08 November 2011, reported that civil servants are to be paid bonuses from the proceeds of the sale of Marange Diamonds. Quoting Prime Minister Tsvangirai, the same story indicated that the government intends to raise US$300 million by end…
The pitfalls of our national gender equality consciousness.* By Takura Zhangazha^ It is a given in democratic societies, or at least those that aspire to be so, that all men and women are treated and respected as equal citizens with an equal enjoyment of human rights, protection of the law, social welfare and social and…
Morgan Tsvangirai, At the Deep End: A narrative of an historical arrival? By Takura Zhangazha.* Morgan Tsvangirai, At the Deep End is a very brave and somewhat surprising book. It is brave in the sense that the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, who is also the president of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) decided to…
Re-thinking and re-debating the Zimbabwean Diaspora. By Takura Zhangazha. There are many Zimbabweans that are no longer resident in the country for many reasons. It is now generally agreed that it was mainly the political and economic crisis of the late 1990s through to present day that caused their phenomenal exodus into the Southern African…
