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Basil Fuller, a travel writer, recounts a dramatic encounter between the Posselt brothers — Harry and Willie — and the advance party of Mhlahlandhlela regiment of Lobengula. The year was 1888, the area Lundi. The Posselt brothers had pressed from Transvaal in South Africa,
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THE OTHER SIDE Nathaniel Manheru Just under two days ago I held a fascinating discussion with Baffour Ankomah, the British-based, Ghanaian-born Editor of the world-read New African magazine. Well known for his obdurately pro-Mugabe stance, he makes a point of connecting each time he visits the
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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side Grant defeat its creative side. It has been quite transporting to read agony pieces from officials of the two MDCs as they go through the writhing motions of confounding defeat.
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It is both funny and irritating. I am referring to current spirited attempts by strange people who had nothing to do with Zanu-PF, nay, who worked against Zanu-PF in its bid for re-election, to now seek to fill Zanu-PF’s governing agenda by their own vile thoughts. They now want to tell Zanu-PF what it must […]
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Morgan Tsvangirai, the defeated MDC-T leader, has one more chance to redeem himself. He has trashed the 2013 polls he and his party have lost. That was to be expected. He carries the DNA of opposition parties on the continent. Definitionally, they are never defeated, only cheated. He is too ordinary to rebel against this
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It is not looking good at all, made worse by a sense of all-round panic. The MDC-T campaign has all but collapsed, its cabal of organic intellectuals already abandoning post, deserting, hawking mid-flight all manner of reasons for the disastrous outturn. I know the behaviour of a party in
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“IT is evident that our fears are being vindicated as there are blatant violations of the electoral law. We are worried about ZEC and we have lost our institutional respect despite our respect for individuals because it (ZEC) has been hijacked by the junta.” These words are attributed to Tendai Biti the secretary general of the MDC-T who is also our
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I suppose they are still being apprenticed by President Mugabe. Otherwise how else do you explain an astonishing picture where the leader of a rival party, his estranged secretary general and his unsure national organising
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THIRTY-THREE years have gone by since our political independence which we won in 1980. The years have been political time, which is not to deny that the same period saw other “times” in other spheres of national endeavour. It is just that I have chosen to pick on the political sphere, all to concentrate focus on the quality of the march, our
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First, the grand alliance. More accurately called the grand headache, this has always been an anguished wish for Tsvangirai and for the strong but losing anti-Zanu-PF lobby in the West, than an imperative of local politics and local politicians. At the time of writing, the activities at the nomination court have been demolishing the supposed alliance in
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I HOPE Zimbabweans are closely following the goings-on in Afghanistan. The Americans are pulling out, nose bloodied by the Talibans. A few days ago, the Americans lost four more soldiers to a remorseless insurgency. I watched a Taliban spokesman, wearing his characteristically fearsome beard.
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I think I owe Zimbabweans a tribute. They are a humorous lot. It is an ingrained part of our national character, a vital part I would never trade off for anything. We must never lose it. This habit of ours
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I am intrigued. You have a maiden ruling on elections from the newly established Constitutional Court. The ruling requires that the authorities ensure elections are held by end of July 2013, all to
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In the absence of a big, permeating idea, the two MDC formations shall continue to play round and round with the two Rs: reforms and registration. This is the more reason Zanu-PF will have to be
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As expected, the constitutional bill was assented to by the President, all to an indifferent Nation that went about its business, unbothered, without notice. As repeatedly said by this column, the constitution-making exercise was one huge display of thoughtful sterility by a schismatic middle class vying for political advantage and office, all in the name
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