By Takura Zhangazha* The Harare City Council (HCC) recently announced that it had run out of water treatment chemicals. And with astounding ease also announced that it was therefore going to shut down the city’s largest water treatment plant. That basically meant that it was shutting down the entire council water supply of the city…
By Takura Zhangazha* South Africa’s former president Thabo Mbeki recently gave a relatively brief speech on the legacy of the late Robert Mugabe. He was speaking at a memorial service organized by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) in Durban, South Africa. Mbeki’s speech and probable future interviews on Mugabe was always going to be…
By Takura Zhangazha* This recent week, if I owned Facebook, Google or Whatsapp and sitting far, far away from South Africa, Southern Africa and Africa itself I would be crunching the data of those that use my applications in those parts of the world. Not literary mathematically crunching at it but waiting for the algorithms…
By Takura Zhangazha* There are many ways of viewing one’s own country. Or sharing one’s opinion on the same with others in direct conversation or on social media. One thing that strikes me though, and most times I wince at it, is how often people casually make the remark, ‘If I could leave this country,…
