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#Kenya #Zimbabwe and the Disputability of Elections
Click or not: #Kenya #Zimbabwe and the Disputability of ElectionsI have been keenly following the Kenyan 2022 election court case. Mainly because as a Zimbabwean I have to reflect on electoral result disputes as they occur in my own country. As it turns out the Supreme Court of Kenya has decided, at law, that William Ruto is the duly elected president of Kenya.… …
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Pensions, Gas/ Oil in Muzarabani
Click or not: Pensions, Gas/ Oil in MuzarabaniBy Takura Zhangazha * I once posted a tweet on how Muzarabani would never be the same again. With the benefit of hindsight, I was one third correct and two thirds wrong. The one third is based on the fact that there would be and is exploration of gas in the Zambezi valley that will… …
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An Overview of Zimbabwe’s Rural Political Economy 2022
Click or not: An Overview of Zimbabwe’s Rural Political Economy 2022By Takura Zhangazha* Many years ago my brother and I had a discussion on the meaning of the ‘rural’ in Zimbabwe. The discussion focused on how we could balance the fact that we were originally from there via our parents and how in the moment we had to confront the reality of success as being… …
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Individual Life Experience as National Consciousness in Zimbabwe.
Click or not: Individual Life Experience as National Consciousness in Zimbabwe.By Takura Zhangazha* Our Zimbabwean national consciousness is a debate we continuously need to engage and debate upon. Even if a decent number of us may consider it relatively abstract. But it must be had all the same. With the key question being “What really informs contemporary Zimbabwean national consciousness?” By way of history, generational… …