Takura Zhangazha

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  • Dear EPL, UEFA + Global Media, for Us Africans, AFCON is Not a Backwater Tournament

     By Takura Zhangazha* In early January 2017, Africa will hold its premier football tournament, the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Gabon.  And we are eagerly anticipating it.  Not with the same media driven fervour that accompanied Euro 2016.  But we will be happy to see our best football players competing for what is African… …

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  • Zim's Politics and Jurisprudence: Whose Chief Justice is it Anyway?

    By Takura Zhangazha* The Judicial Service Commission recently undertook public interviews for the position of the Chief Justice of Zimbabwe. This was done because the current chief justice is retiring in early 2017.  It was also done in terms of section 180 of the current (new) constitution which empowers the JSC to independently determine who… …

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  • Struggle Fragmentation and a Failing Incrementalism in Zimbabwe.

    By Takura Zhangazha* The furtherance of the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe is getting a little bit more complicated now.  And as we end 2016, with the prospect of an elections pre-occupied 2017, it is bound to become even more so.  An immediate question that one may ask is ‘what is this struggle’ that I… …

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  • (No) Nationalism and Money in Zimbabwe

     By Takura Zhangazha* The introduction of bond notes in Zimbabwe has not been as apocalyptic as predicted by critics. Nor has it been as positive as anticipated by those that support their introduction.  And in both cases, the politics of the bond notes has been muted.  Despite some demonstrations planned and threats of arrest and… …

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