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By Takura Zhangazha* Analysing Zimbabwe’s opposition political parties is to arrive at a precarious opinion and position.  Especially if one attempts to shed a bit of bias and seeks to contextually hold the opposition to the highest political standards or measurements. The main reason why the opposition political parties do not take kindly to criticism… …

By Takura Zhangazha* There are certain oddities to Zimbabwean life at the moment.  And it takes lived experiences to be able to explain them.  Even if our country is neither at war nor tittering at the brink of it.  I have a good comrade that I know that survived a car accident. He was not… …

By Takura Zhangazha*  In early March this year I was invited to share my personal views on political activism in Zimbabwe at a panel discussion at the University of Johannesburg’s department of Sociology.  It was not so much an academic debate but more to do with trying to understand past, present and possibly emerging realities… …

 By Takura Zhangazha* When the local state controlled weekly Sunday Mail published a headline story on what it referred to as the ‘command economy’, I was slightly surprised.  While it wasn’t a new term from the state and its related ‘news’ machinery, it was clearly a strategic propaganda move intended to remind us of the… …