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Reason Wafawarova on Monday Leading to election 2018, we saw the formation of what is now called the MDC-Alliance on the backdrop of massive campaigning for a united front against ZANU-PF, not around a common cause or unity of purpose. Leading to the 2008 election the same calls were made where the Tsvangirai-led MDC kept […]
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There is hardly any democracy to talk about in how leadership is chosen in our opposition, yet those riding roughshod over democratic processes are crowned as democrats, or proudly make the claim themselves.
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That is just Chamisa’s misinformed idea of democracy, and it does not deserve intellectual attention. Democracy is a continuous process that ensures a popular platform for the empowerment of the generality of the population is created.
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From its formation, MDC has largely misread the impact of protest politics, hoping this in and of itself will one day bring regime change. There was hope that urban mass action would propel Morgan Tsvangirai to State House in 2002, and nothing close to that ever happened.
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It is not enough for us Africans to look at the system and react with rage, apathy, stereotypy, paranoia, suspicion, depression or mania. We cannot confront this system with bourgeoisie nationalism either. We need strategy, not emotion.
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Some among us did not sympathise with the Iraqis when their country was invaded, or with the Afghanis. We hailed the invaders of these countries as angels of democracy, and even longed for the invasion to visit our own land — hoping for the capturing and hanging of Robert Mugabe in the process.
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Reason Wafawarova on Monday Since independence we have had a number of people-oriented policies like mass education, health for all, rural growth points, land reclamation and indigenisation. Some of these policies were coloured in dramatic political radicalism, and they not only gave our country an image of revolutionarism, but also attracted phenomenal antagonism from some […]
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Reason Wafawarova on Monday IT is sad to note that 18 years after Zimbabwe repossessed colonially stolen farm land there is a grounding narrative that says agricultural production has declined because land is now in the hands of “unskilled and incapable black farmers”. We bear responsibility for this narrative, and it is an uncomfortable reality we […]
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Anyone that thinks dialoguing for unity or positions and perks with Nelson Chamisa will in and of itself help revive the economy is selling hopelessness.Chamisa’s happiness will not suffice to revive our economy, not from any angle imaginable.
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After World War II western large mass parties dominated democracies; and these parties held the structures of the state. To succeed in being close to the lives of individual citizens, these parties heavily relied on the network of intermediary organisations such as unions, corporations and party media.
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SOMETHING is going wrong with democracy. Something has gone wrong with democracy. It was the most successful political idea of the 21st century, but increasingly democracy is running into trouble, not least because there are people who confuse democracy with elections — people who believe elections are in and of themselves the definition of democracy.
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Reason Wafawarova on Monday Brexit was a turning point in the history of Western democracy in general, and that of Britain in particular. A drastic decision was taken through a one round referendum based on a simple majority, and the fate of a country and that of an entire continent was changed by the single […]
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Clearly, the West is impressed with the demise of Robert Mugabe, but not for the same reasons we are impressed. We are happy a man who had become a prisoner of his overbearing ambitious wife was retired to allow continuity of ZANU-PF and the liberation legacy, yet our Western colleagues are happy because the “rotten apple” is no more.
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Reason Wafawarova on Monday So much has been said about who will win today’s election, from “ED Pfee” to “Chamisa CheteChete”. This writer is no big fan of fanatical slogans, but I digress. It is pleasing that Zimbabweans are full of enthusiasm and optimism from across the political divide, as people turn out today to […]
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So Thokozani Khupe faces the wrath of male chauvinist hooligans loyal to Nelson Chamisa, who are more than convinced that “this country will never be ruled by a woman,” and that their party “will never be led by a woman,” let alone one hailing from a tribe they count as numerically inferior.
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