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THE OTHER SIDE Nathaniel Manheru LATELY, national focus and debate has been on breathtaking malfeasances affecting key institutions of our country. The names which have stood largest in that whole debate have been ZBC, PSMAS, Marange Resources, suggestively Air Zimbabwe, and lately the Harare City Council. All these are key. ZBC carries our mind. PSMAS […]
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THE OTHER SIDE Nathaniel Manheru— A small aside. Yesterday’s issue of the Zimbabwe Independent carried an opinion under its Editor’s Memo. The opinion was written by Itai Masuku, and was titled “The Rand’s Fall Worrisome”. It upheld the broad observations I made last week, themselves a repeat from one
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I plead guilty. I abandoned post for quite a while, and then returned to it without feeling I owed my bosses any explanation. For that I have been suitably chastised. I deserve it. I take it.
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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side Happy New Year dear reader, and I hope 2014 carries better hopes. For me it certainly means a more vigorous debate, more virile analyses. Let’s partner and see how far we go.
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Nathanie Manheru My deep condolences to the Mandela family and South Africa on the passing on of Madiba. May his soul finally rest in eternal peace. West call, Chinese curse
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Let’s punch in a few figures, even though I know figures don’t make good, easy read. We need them all the same, more so when one realises certain prejudices have tended to entrench and misguide debate on national issues, all in the absence of hard figures and facts. I will start
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THE past three instalments have seen this column deal with sample thoughts on Zimbabwe, our country. Of course the underlying issue is a Lenin-like question: What is to be done. As you notice, I avoided calling the question Leninist, an
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WHEN the Zimbabwean-born and South African domiciled businessman, Strive Masiyiwa, voiced his concern about huge youth unemployment and the wakeful nights which that caused him, little did he know he would
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The past three weeks have seen the articulation of four key thoughts for me, all of them taking the African debate a rung up. Don’t get me wrong, describing them as “key” thoughts is in no way endorsing them. I have very vigorous views on each of the four thoughts and that
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When you really want to stoke the furnace of misanthropy, the thought-ages to visit are the Augustans and the Romantics. But that is to reckon time by way of literary movements, something decidedly esoteric. In mundane
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Often, one feels throttled, really throttled. Throttled by a certain narrowness of thought so abundant in the political world. Throttled by easy judgment so fashionable in the political world.
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The Other Side Nathaniel Manheru— The week has had a number of strange twists, all of them presenting some interesting points for commentators. The only problem is that not everyone comprehends reality in its interconnectedness, which is why we need commentators. Like me of course! Can someone tell me how a
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The hardest challenge for any leader is dealing with the aftermath of defeat. Leadership qualities are taxed to the limit in an environment of increasing loneliness and encroaching indigence.
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Poor Priscilla. It must be very painful to dangle lifeless on the noose of your own philosophy. My readers will recall that the one MDC official I have debated in the past is Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga. I respect her immensely, which
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Nathaniel Manheru A story is told of a young Zimbabwean who finds himself in America, finds himself part of a white American crowd. He sticks out, thereby attracting some attention. After a while one white American approaches him to ask where he is from. “Zimbabwe,” he responds. “Zimbabwe?” asks
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