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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side Against all odds, President Mugabe yesterday bagged the African Union chairmanship. He did not waste time, immediately striking the tenor as to the nature of his year-long leadership of the continent.
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“CAN we think Zimbabwe out of this? Yes. If we abandon bigotry and bigots as a nation we can study and think Zimbabwe out of her present conflictual political condition that is seeing heroes and heroines of the struggle, orphans and the maimed being rubbished by individuals with dubious agenda and of
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I AM so happy we are, as a people, now able to construct meaning outside Western hegemony. It takes a lot to be able to do that, certainly much more than intellect. The recent developments in France were sad, as is always the case with all developments that cost human life. A happy twist to the […]
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The Other side Nathaniel Manheru The heading for this instalment is not mine. I owe it to one Dr Augustine Tirivangana. I understand he is with the Open University, but he writes for The Patriot.
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Happy New Year, dear reader, and a hopeful 2015. My instalment last week drew a vigorous response from individuals largely drawn from one or two political parties, both of them founded on narrow politics, both of them seeking dignity and decency in names from a hallowed past. Of course, I am using vigorous as a euphemism […]
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The Other Side with Nathaniel Manheru I hope you had a good Christmas holiday, dear reader. I almost had one, until the editor reminded me The Herald was publishing today. You can imagine what it meant overcoming those mighty cramps of debauched moments, all to get back to a thinking and writing mode.
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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side MAYBE I should have been born in America. I love size. I love space. I love huge vistas. Conversely I hate narrowness. I hate to feel hemmed in, encased or contained. The worst moment for me is when I step past the threshold, into my mother’s sooted roundavel kitchen. I
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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side THE War of the Axe had ended, serving the Xhosa nation a stunning defeat. And the British treachery had settled that war expectedly through characteristic British deceit.
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Nathaniel Manheru THE OTHER SIDE I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He is late, that Nobel laureate from Columbia who passed on this year, just a day before our National Day. I have drawn from his writings, a point my loyal readers would vouch for.
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A good friend recently made a cynical point about the admirably dogged way in which whites pursue their own interests. With a sore heart, I weighed in to add that this doggedness followed clarity on what those interests are, and of course how to pursue them,
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The Other Side Nathaniel Manheru So Chamisa was knocked out? Nikuved, as some would say? Really? Chamisa of the Gumbo totem? Sorry Chitova! Which reminds me of my paternal grandmother’s favourite song after a good day’s drink.
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The Other Side Nathaniel Manheru I think a qualification, if not retraction, is in order. Whoop, those “tweeters” do read I tell you. I was wrong, and am determined to be right about them, now and in future. The hooves generation I had dismissed as de-educating, read my article. They grasped it too! And it […]
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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side Alexander Pope was one hell of a poet who brooked no bald critics. Not that he hated criticism. He hated dullards who pretended to be critics, the same way he hated pseudo-poets who gave the world doggerel so bereft of wit. And for him and his generation, wit was everything.
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The Other Side Nathaniel Manheru IN February 1953, a blue-sleeved booklet was published by Rev. W.J. Van Der Merwe, who was chairman of the Dutch Reformed Church Mission. Titled “The Day Star Arises in Mashonaland”, the little book sought to chronicle the story of the Dutch Reformed Church in the then Southern Rhodesia.
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The Other Side Nathaniel Manheru IT has been a good 34 years since our war of liberation ended in victory. There is a whole generation that grew after the war, a whole generation for whom that war is but a series of gripping anecdotes. Or even narratives of critical claims and falsehoods by those against […]
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