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Nathaniel Manheru THE OTHER SIDE— The other day a deeply disturbed friend murmured about “the uncertain times we are living in”. This was his reaction to the fast-paced events in the Middle East, escalated by the ominous military entry of Russia. And “ominous” is not judging the moral value of Russia’s
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LAST week I promised to tackle the issue of the sale by auction of a property of the Zimbabwe Government in Cape Town, over a court action involving AfriForum, a white legal outfit defending colonial property rights in the whole of the Southern African region. I intend to fulfil that promise, which is why I
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The beauty about an argument that has an encompassing, hard-to-fault, premise is that its detractors end up validating it, fortifying it. Responses to my instalment on the People First project last week, left me feeling more or less vindicated, in fact endorsed. It is always a good, lifting feeling in the life of a
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IT has been an eventful week, quite eventful. On my way home last Saturday, I ran into an everlasting convoy of MDC-T supporters. Their vehicular beeline pointed beyond, passing through and past Chivhu. The journey source, as I was later to establish, was Nharira, a vibrant growth point in Chikomba District.
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The Other Side with Nathaniel Manheru I LIKE what is happening in Europe, namely the trekking to its shores of thousands and thousands of refugees from North Africa and Middle East, foremost refugees from war-torn Syria. It’s a pity America is so far away, made farther by the huge, impassable waters that cut it away […]
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The Other Side with Nathaniel Manheru— I HAVE always told my fellow Zimbabweans this: history matters. You don’t know history, you can’t use it to defend or further your interest. You become its butt, a clown by history, not necessarily of history. And history is not about the past; it is about a way of […]
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The Other Side with Nathaniel Manheru The Rhodesians called it the suicide season. Zimbabwe’s springtime. Particularly the month of October when temperatures soar exponentially, and then peak. Even trees are drowsy and resigned; they wilt and droop like a willow. The earth turns into an active furnace; it scorches. The grass is decidedly
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The Other Side with Nathaniel Manheru Zimbabwe is moving, evolving quite fast. Not in the superficial neo-liberal sense in which a backsliding country can be pampered by Bretton Woods affiliates, pampered to vertiginous growth levels. Against ever deepening social crisis characterised by mass poverty, mass ignorance and an all-round collapse of social services, such chosen […]
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Cecil is dead, killed by James Palmer, an American dentist. He was 13. He has followed the death-steps of his namesake, John Cecil Rhodes, who left this earth in 1902. Rhodes sleeps at Matopo, atop that sacred hill. He sleeps well, unmolested, visited daily by kith, by kin, by victims. By all measure, Rhodes
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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side CAN someone tell me, just who is threatened by the First Lady hitting 50 years of age? Or by her celebrating that age? Or by the fact of taking advantage of that occurrence to fund-raise for charity? In raising these questions I am prompted by two headline stories in yesterday’s […]
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CHIKUKUVATAVATA. It used to be a game we played in our youthful, colonial days. Mother asks you and your siblings to catch a cock or hen for dinner, most probably because sekuru in the sense of your mother’s brother is expected, or has come. These would be free-range bird, often without a “home”. It was
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The Other Side with Nathaniel Manheru This column has adopted a very critical stance against the American governments, past, present, and I dare say future. It may sound absurd that the column dares condemn future governments of America, condemn them before their time, before they come. Well, not quite absurd. Nothing is more fixed, more […]
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The Other Side with Nathaniel Manheru You cannot help but admire American choreography. At the start of this month they had a hearing on Zimbabwe, itself an opportunity for demonstrating how much they stand in loco parentis to all of us the lesser beings. And then you have more fanfare around a handful of young […]
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The other Side with Nathaniel Manheru MY heart goes out to all the African-African American church-goers gunned down summarily by a pro-Rhodesia, pro-Apartheid American white supremacist terrorist named as Dylann Roof. This white supremacist terrorist gunned down the nine victims on Wednesday night at an historic African-
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The Other Side with Nathaniel Manheru Kudakwashe Bhasikiti is taking the President and Zanu-PF to court. He thinks his dismissal from Zanu-PF was so unfair that it offended against principles of natural justice.
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