Zimbabwe: Army entry into politics a step towards a coup

Commanders enter poll race. This was Zimbabwe’s first shocking headline of 2013. Over the ten-year period from 2000, the nation started experiencing the Nazi style installation of former military generals as chief executive officers and board chairmen of various public sector companies. After enjoying a literal no-contest of such wayward leadership, the communist dunderheads of [...]

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Zvimba city a gigantic face-saver for a failed president

In the absence of any praiseworthy legacy, cohorts in governance failure considered it befitting to pay homage to their failed revolutionary leader with a city typical of Disneyland. Robert Mugabe whom many Zimbabweans will be yearning to forget clearly has nothing positive to be remembered for. Three decades of bad governance fuelled by a corrupt [...]

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The Impact of Chinamasa’s Treasonous Statements

Preamble Was that in jest? Did we hear the words correctly? What was the agenda? Or were they just “hollow statements” as Mugabe puts it? With such words, can anybody trust Robert Mugabe and his killing machinery? Is any Mugabe opponent safe in this election? Will Tsvangirai or Ncube or Makoni not be forced to [...]

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Zanu PF Desperate Measures for Desperate Times

Zanu PF Senator endorses Copac draft, Morgan Tsvangirai’s messy love life is a gift to his enemies, Cabinet Rejects Referendum Amendment Bill, Ncube rules out MDC-T reunion, ZANU-PF in constitution climb-downThe Financial Gazette; these were some of the top stories on Friday morning. It is an undeniable fact that politically, Zanu PF achieved nothing in [...]

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Moving Towards Elections: Realities Zimbabweans Should Never Forget

ANALYSIS Opening As the new draft constitution fracas continues to gather momentum with familiar propagandists’ tendencies of defending impracticable and anti-Zimbabwean constitutional demands, there are deep-seated issues Zimbabweans should never forget. These issues should form part of the electorate’s desire to have things differently in next year’s election. Zimbabweans have been made to believe in [...]

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Opinion: Checklist of the Truth behind Everything in Zimbabwe

Solomon in the biblical book of Ecclesiastes says “life is meaningless” and that “everything does not make sense”. Given that Solomon was considered the wisest man of his time and the diabolical turf of politics in Zimbabwe, such stubborn statements become reasonably factual. Nothing appears to make sense in the Zimbabwean context. For instance, people [...]

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Letter from an unknown friend: Confessions of my 1975 realistic dream

This is a letter that I recently received from an unknown friend who signed it off as Muggaey Robertson. The letter which I found in my spam messages section read as follows;   Dear friend After considerable thought, I decided I should share with you the strange dream I had back in 1975. At that [...]

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The Freedom House Survey a Zanu PF propaganda instrument – OPINION

Mugabe more popular – poll, Now they are on Top!, these were some of the headlines on Saturday morning. Preamble Since they feel exposed of not having any new strategies to tame public support, this was indeed one of their desperate batings for sixes and not a four. The hype surrounding the survey which undoubtedly [...]

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Kikwete’s no-nonsense Maputo stance: A sign of good times ahead?

Could the Maputo summit be a sign of times? Was Jikaya Kikwete signalling his arrival as Mugabe’s toughest opponent as Troika chair? Could we be seeing an incarnate Mwanawasa in the Tanzanian president? Was SADC’s decision on Mutambara a microwave product? What happens next in the GNU? Is this the ultimate end to an era [...]

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Olympics Opening: The “Queen Elizabeth” movie

Olympics Opening: The “Queen Elizabeth” James Bond movie a big bang On this article, I thought I could inspire some light moments and move away from politics a little. It is reasonably understandable as I am working towards finishing the various political articles I am currently working on. For a moment or two, one would [...]

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