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Nick Mangwana View from the Diaspora There has been a direct effort to support Zambian food production by the European Union and undermine Zimbabwean agriculture through the strangling of the agricultural sector to give the impression that commercial farmers that moved are responsible for the increased maize production since 2004.
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Nick Mangwana View from the Diaspora Without doubt corruption is an enemy against the development of our country. It rewards greediness and crookedness. The current scenario in Zimbabwe allows crooks to brandish their ill-gotten wealth with impunity and spite the poor and long suffering public.
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Nick Mangwana View from the Diaspora The declaration of assets by public officials has the support of the public and those with nothing to hide. But the delay in implementation does indicate that there are some with a lot to hide who are resolved to defeat this process.
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Nick Mangwana View from the Diaspora Last week this column expressed outrage at the treatment of Zimbabwe’s foreign-based diplomats by the parent ministry. The irony of the whole matter is that the ministry has former diplomats heading it. People that have been there and people that know how important it is
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Nick Mangwana View From Diaspora An ambassador is an envoy of a principal. There are way too many misconstructions about Zimbabwe. Do we have to confirm them by this laissez faire and a we don’t give a damn attitude? Or is it that we have heard the lies about us too many times that we have […]
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Nick Mangwana View from the Diaspora What is clear is that most nations have national pledges of sorts. Whether these should be compulsory is another thing. Right now Zimbabwe is in a polarised State that to some, anything introduced by the ruling zanu-pf party has to be resisted or derided no matter how virtuous and well-meaning. […]
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Nick Mangwana View From The Diaspora The Government is doing a lot right. This is might seem a surprise to many, but when one looks at the challenges that were brought by El Nino and notice that there is no one really starving then credit should be given where it belongs. Electricity and water supply have […]
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Nick Mangwana View From the Diaspora Recently there was a decision by the Censorship Board of Zimbabwe to ban a highly contrived and manipulated film on Zimbabwe’s constitution-making process. The film pandered to overused and tired stereotypes about the ruling party and its leadership as well as caricaturing Zanu-PF and its representatives as barbaric and […]
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Nick Mangwana View from the Diaspora A genuine road safety effort is not having hazardous check points all over the place. It is about smart policing, it is about building wide roads as a priority, it is about placing a higher value on human life.
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Nick Mangwana View From the Diaspora In the world we all live in people serve their own interests and in doing so they manipulate rules and make some up as they go along. It is only national constitutions that intercede with impartiality and no other vested interests.
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View From the Diaspora Nick Mangwana Had General Josiah Tongogara lived to see this day, he would have been 78-years-old, an elderly senior citizen. He would have been much older than most of the elderly comrades we saw being choked by tear-smoke and being drenched by water cannons last week. He would probably have arthritis,
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Nick Mangwana View from the Diaspora Politics continue to be the theme of this column this week. However, the issue of alleged stealing of women’s underwear and questionable paternity pedigree will be avoided while direction and the narrative from the Politburo meeting tomorrow is
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Nick Mangwana View from the Diaspora After all lobola is being paid for a number of “small houses”, creating bastardised marital unions. Clearly the law should not and has failed to negotiate sexual norms.
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Nick Mangwana View From the Diaspora Whatever the cause of this alcoholism scourge a lot of social capital is being unnecessarily lost. There is really no need to applaud someone because they are legless and paralytic from too much alcohol.
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Nick Mangwana View from the Diaspora Now that the “Two Patricks”, Indigenisation and Finance ministers Cde Patrick Zhuwao and Patrick Chinamasa respectively, have found each other and in that a common ground for the implementation of the indigenisation policy, this week’s piece had to be hastily changed to focus on how Zimbabwe can
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