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Workers Day 2024: Remembering Trade Unionism in #Zimbabwe
Click or not: Workers Day 2024: Remembering Trade Unionism in #ZimbabweBy Takura Zhangazha* Workers Day is no longer as recognized as it should be. We learnt of labour movements from the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU). We learnt also of cdes like Clement Kadalie, Charles Mzingeli and Reuben Jamela and their role in forming the initial nationalist movements with Joshua Nkomo. So Workers Day… …
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Discussing Ideology and Mimicry in Zimbabwe (Again)
Click or not: Discussing Ideology and Mimicry in Zimbabwe (Again)By Takura Zhangazha* Zimbabwean political conversations over the last twenty years have generally become predictable (black or white, either-or) They are conversations that we have chosen and in a greater majority of cases, given. They are also somewhat highly emotive about what should either be a political or economic way forward. In the emotional output… …
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Remembering #Zimbabwe ’s Opposition Political Movement.
Click or not: Remembering #Zimbabwe ’s Opposition Political Movement.By Takura Zhangazha* Someone accused me of betraying the mainstream opposition political movement. I laughed out quite loudly. I have not been involved in opposition politics for at least eight years. I however am a founder member of at least two organizations in the mainstream civil society and opposition politics. The first being the National… …
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Creation and Control of Political Narratives in Zimbabwe.
Click or not: Creation and Control of Political Narratives in Zimbabwe.By Takura Zhangazha* Zimbabweans are familiar with the historical question that relates to “What made us?” In most cases the historical answer is the first and second liberation struggles against colonialism. The other answer is the fact of our economic suffering after the first eight years of independence when we underwent rapid economic liberalisation at… …