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This article grew out of a general observation of the political personnel in this election. The memory of it fills me with the urgency to philosophize politically and to venerate theory-making in politics. I will refer to Pareto and Mosca towards the end of this article.
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador, popularly known as AMLO, has won a landslide victory in Mexico’s presidential elections.
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Elsewhere in this issue we carry an interesting reminder from one of our columnists regarding the ongoing opposition attacks on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and its chairperson, Justice Priscilla Chigumba.
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There are two sides to Zimbabwe’s elections. There is a side that wants to portray the country as peaceful and going through a democratic process in which the will of the people will prevail and be respected. They have done a lot and beyond paint the country as stable and democratic.
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You should have seen me shaking my head in self-pity, as if somebody had just mercilessly slapped me. I had just landed at the “little” Kotoka International Airport, Accra, Ghana, and needed to use the rest room. What I saw startled me. There were about a dozen toilet cubicles.
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We derive our proverbs and our wisdom from lived experience, and from knowing that if something has to happen, it will happen.
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“We can now more easily switch our clients from one drug to another. Once a client walks into our institution, we can quickly check for their viral load count level and take necessary intervention immediately,” says Leonard Nyakabau, a nurse and HIV focal person for Hauna district hospital in Manicaland.
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French President Emmanuel Macron’s remarks have provided Africans with yet another one of those attack sessions that we so thoroughly enjoy - an opportunity to reprimand our former colonial rulers who once paraded themselves as superior to us.
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A common aphorism about political language is that it is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and true to this, a lot of hot air is circulating on the political scene in the lead up to the day of reckoning, July 30.
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Southern Africa has developed a regional framework that will serve as a guide on mainstreaming gender into the regional peace and security systems and processes.
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When Natasha Rushesha (23) finished her college in the United Kingdom in 2017, she opted to return to Zimbabwe.
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Something unusual happened last week. Perhaps reacting to political pressure, something unusual again, the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) called a Press conference to talk about their position regarding the July 30 harmonised elections. The ZDF sent its spokesman Colonel Overson Mugwisi to address the journalists on this. The pressure from opposition political parties and civic […]
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Zimbabwe Partnership for Prosperity (ZIPP) presidential candidate Dr Blessing Kasiyamhuru highlighted that theirs was a generational mandate with vision 2040 when they want the generation of that time to enjoy the fruits of the seed they are sowing on July 30 without outlining what exactly they want to do to improve the economy and reach that envisioned paradise.
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Tichaona Zindoga Political Editor AT the end of last week, there were attempts to brew a storm around the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission and its process of handling and printing ballot papers, following a press conference by the European Union Observer Mission. The mission’s head, Elmar Brok made a number of pronouncements regarding Zimbabwe’s pre-election period. […]
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Hat is Miguel Street’s memory. Even though the stories are unified by the character (who eventually tells his story of departure in the last chapter), Hat’s ubiquitous presence in most of the stories makes him a unifying character as well.
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