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This past week’s commemorative ceremonies marking Bulawayo’s 120 years of existence, in the words of the Monday Chronicle, “as a modern city”, left me wondering the same way similar yearly commemorations by Zimpapers have.
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This last Wednesday, Barack Obama, President of the United States of America addressed graduands of the US Military Academy located at West Point. The academy, I am told, is US equivalent of British Sandhurst, a place for elite skills, hatchery for elite dominance in national and world affairs. That speech has largely gone
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Two popular shorthands in the current media-led national discourse are “grand coalition” and “economic deflation”. The former is supposed to describe the country’s politics, while the latter allegedly describes the country’s economic situation. And like all shorthands, they lend a tinge of righteousness and consensus to remarkable
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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side WITH mere dregs of results from the plebiscite still trickling in, the picture on South Africa’s fifth democratic and non-racial vote is virtually clear. The ANC is set to win overwhelmingly, albeit falling short of the coveted two-thirds majority it needs to change the constitution. For that, it has to […]
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THE Herald has redeemed journalism. One read with absolute disgust shallow media reports on the ongoing saga and leadership tussle within MDC-T, eternally wondering when the better deserving reader would finally get justly served by our media. The wait has been long, with respite only coming yesterday through a
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Nathaniel Manheru: The Other Side Zimbabwe is now amenable! That is the impression we have created and cultivated since Zanu-PF’s landslide victory in July last year. I hope that is the wish-image, not the unintended image arising from our lack of messaging discipline which has been our bane since that resounding electoral victory. Of course […]
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ONE key attribute the lack of which stands us out as a weak people, a weak nation, is being able to sum up each stage in, and of, our lives. The absence of that attribute makes us both an unconscious and goal-less people, bringing us uncomfortably closer to beasts of the wild. We are creatures […]
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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side I am trying to visualise President Mugabe sunk in an EU conference chair in Brussels, listening to the following words from one Mr Di Rupo: “We cannot tolerate that some are denied their rights and persecuted for their origins, sexual orientation, their religion and their convictions.” Mr Di
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It must be very frustrating for Morgan Tsvangirai. He summons a show-of-unity press choreography today, Biti in glum tow. The following day you have Mangoma hyping dissent and militantly telling the world there is no substitute for Tsvangirai’s resignation.
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The Other Side with Nathaniel Manheru Matters are hurtling to a head in the MDC-T, are they not? But I must correct myself. I was rather hard on Biti and Mangoma last week. Or is it Mangoma and Biti? Just who is who? And what is the hierarchical sequence? I wonder. Last week I suggested […]
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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side “We don’t want to build parties that have no future and that will die with me. If I lose the next election I will step down and pass the baton. That is democracy and continuity.” The year was 2012; the month was November. The place was Mkoba, right in the […]
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The Other Side Nathaniel Manheru Throughout human history, the masses have always been an ambiguous political magnitude. Each generation has had to decide what to call them, with each description implying concession or censure, as far as their role in society is concerned. In feudal history, the masses
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Nathaniel Manheru AS I write this piece, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, is ninety years and one day old. Happy Birthday Mister President! No doubt the man has been around.
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Bruce Wharton, the US ambassador to Zimbabwe, is a very interesting man to serve in Zimbabwe at this point in our national life. He has been here before as some middle officer working for USIA, United States Information Agency, under which falls that Government’s
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My instalment on fufuro last week drew a sardonic yet supremely directional comment from one of my diligent readers. Manheru, asserted the reader, builds layers and layers of spiderwebs well up to the stratosphere, something quite good for as long as he does not hope or expect to catch an elephant! I must say I […]
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