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The other side with Nathaniel Manheru— Phew what a humorous week I have had! I hope, dear reader, you have found the week just as mirthful. If not, here we go . . . First, the spectacle of tajamuka hoodlums convening under a false bravado of “hatichatya”, we no longer fear, only to scatter in sixes […]
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Nathaniel Manheru I am truly grateful to the many people who joined in the debate to my instalment last week which focused on graduates and employment. It is the most commented upon piece I have done to date, clearly showing I picked on an issue that touches many people. Indeed, this is what columnists must […]
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The Other Side: Nathaniel Manheru Zvasekuru vangu VaTsvangirai vakomana? Kungozvitsvagira mabombodzi nemarehwarehwa padunhu! I don’t know what went behind the MDC-T scenes, leading to the appointment of two other vice presidents, over and above Thokozani Khupe, the pots and pans vice president. I am not curious to
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Well, like I indicated last week, the pilferage of the uumph of civil servants demonstrations by some externally glamorised fringe political upstarts last week was bound be exposed in the failed lockdown call this week. Simply, these upstarts overreached, mistaking civil servants action and WhatsApp-induced fear for a measure of their influence. Of course the […]
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The Other Side: Nathaniel Manheru— One seemingly innocuous detail from history I always want to share with Zimbabweans relates to the relationship between a few whites in Bulawayo and King Lobengula soon after the signing of the fateful Rudd Concession in 1888. By then Charles Rudd had left, leaving behind Thompson and
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The Other Side: Nathaniel Manheru Let’s start with a series of small, light-hearted but revealing anecdotes. Beitbridge. I am told there was quite some build-up of tension on both sides of the bridge, which means a build-up from South Africa and from Zimbabwe. The businessmen in Musina are angry. The cross-border traders from
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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side— Our media pundits are at it again, misleading us into thinking that local opposition organisations are about to find each other, hopefully to form what might be called a party to challenge Zanu-PF. The euphoria over Joice Mujuru’s small rally in Bulawayo, clearly oversized, was part of this small drama. The […]
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“Quicquid agunt Homines nostri Farrago Libelli” — Juvenal, “Satires” Repeatedly, I am receiving comments from readers who wish me away from certain topics and yet others who challenge me to grapple with this or that topic. I have no difficulties with the latter group, for their feedback draws my attention to areas of felt need. Where I […]
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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side— No sooner have they come together than they had forgotten the code that brought them together. That is the story of our opposition, and their famed grand coalition that was hyped to tediousness by the media. Then the People First was an idea, more attractive in promise than in reality. […]
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Nathaniel Manheru BACK in the 1970s, marriage took the form of musical rivalry that pitted families of the bride and the groom. Each side composed songs that exalted the qualities of their side — both real and imagined — while heaping execrable qualities on the opposite side. The starting point was the physical side of […]
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Nathaniel Manheru— I AM conflicted. I would have wanted to deal with David Coltart’s book or, better still, deal with the whole debate around bond notes, both of them quite urgent and substantive. But I find myself having to deal with a matter that by now should have been taken for granted, a
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Nathaniel Manheru: The Other Side As I sit down to write this piece, it is February 18, 1978, and David Coltart has just taken off for South Africa, to start his university studies at UCT, the University of Cape Town. He leaves behind Rhodesia, still burning, his Ngundu post — the last he commanded before […]
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Nathaniel Manheru THE OTHER SIDE— I suppose it is called delayed sight. Last week I drew the ire of opposition MDC-T supporters when I raised the self-evident, dead-end scenario that comes with demonstrations, and the fleeting joy that comes with regaling inflated crowd numbers.
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The generous ones put it at 10 000. The modest ones put it at 2 000. The niggard ones put it at 800. And all claimed to be reading from the same crowd which the MDC-T is alleged to have mustered in the wake of a court ruling favouring the demonstration to go ahead without […]
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The March 28 issue of Time Magazine’s endnote is, as per tradition, a question-and-answer transcription with a chosen global opinion driver. At least in the eyes of its Western-centric editorial team. The chosen one this time is one Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer and winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize.
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