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There are crimes that injure individuals, and then there are crimes that injure society. Crimes that injure individuals can be measured through weighing scales of gravity.
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A new way of doing things is being inculcated in Zimbabwe. The narrative is very clear that we have to recall the political mode and deploy more economics and a policy discourse.
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If a vision lacks realism, it also lacks credibility. Any father can come to their children and promise them the most fanciful toys envogue but a credible father will not come with fanciful promises when he knows his circumstances cannot back their delivery. But it is only a credible parent who sits down their family and tells them their circumstance realities. We don’t choose our parents but we can choose our leaders. Let us make the right choice.
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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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To this writer a soft person or, more specifically, a soft leader is one who has emotional intelligence. It is one who has a lot of empathy and that empathy attracts people to them. Emotional intelligence also means one has emotional discipline and is not given to too much impulsivity. Their inner circle is highly inspired by the person that they carry his vision forward even if he himself doesn’t care much about public speaking.
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The New Dispensation brought civility into our politics. It brought respect and, more importantly, it brought dialogue. This dialogue replaced diatribe against the Western powers, diatribe against the opposition and even diatribe against some of our neighbours such as Botswana. President Mnangagwa told a rally in Bulawayo that it took a dialogue of just seven minutes for President Khama, President Lungu and himself to reach a multilateral agreement on Kazungula crossing.
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William Arthur Ward was an American who contributed a lot to the Reader’s Digest. His main genres were inspirational maxims and meditations and poems. One of the things he said was: “A pessimist complains about the direction of the wind, an optimist expects it to change but a realist adjusts the sails.”
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Free, fair and credible elections are expected to yield quick economic gains but should this Alliance win these elections, then all hell will break loose as they fight for the spoils of the victory. Are Zimbabweans ready to have another political drama at the expense of economic prosperity?
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Has anyone ever stopped to ask themselves why Nelson Chamisa lies, is caught out and does not backtrack or apologise or retract but will repeat his lie or totally ignore the fact that he lied?
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A few days ago, this columnist appeared to have steered a hornet’s nest by appearing to criticise the recycling of crowds from one rally to another as a show of support.
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The biggest measure of a party’s internal democracy is primary elections. If one wants to know whether the harmonised elections will be a true reflection of the will of the people then people have to use the test run of the forthcoming Zanu-PF primaries.
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People in zanu-pf have been called cowards and all such names. Maybe we were. For surely talking to some comrades it is clear very few genuinely loved Robert Mugabe in his last years as President.
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There are many good things that people can do, which they won’t do. We all know what’s right but we don’t always do it. We all see rubbish on the street and we don’t pick it up and throw it in the next bin because we just cannot be bothered.
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In Zanu-PF some servile comrades said then President Robert Mugabe should in the future chair the Politburo and Cabinet from the Heroes Acre as a dead hero. They could not let themselves be outdone by his wife who had said that he should rule from the wheelchair.
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Nick Mangwana View from the Diaspora There are reports concerning a development in our polity where our former leader Cde Robert Mugabe is said to be attempting to play the joker. He is not so subtly trying to use whatever clout he believes he has to endorse a candidate for the next harmonised elections.
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