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In Zimbabwe ZANU-PF preaches deep love of country and people, and there is no doubt the party was founded on true liberation aspirations of the time, and that the liberation legacy has continuously shaped the party’s policy-making process.
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Reason Wafawarova It is sad that being a loyalty-driven church member and a God-fearing Christian appear to have become a precarious balancing act in Zimbabwe’s religious landscape. Many Christians like my friend Jealousy Mawarire are clearly prepared to die for their “spiritual fathers” (the euphemism for today’s
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Reason Wafawarova It is the tempting belief for every journalist worth the enviable pride in this most thankless profession that there is no issue beyond the range of his or her pen. The media fraternity comprises characters that have no issue bestowing upon themselves the self-anointed status
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Reason Wafawarova Zimbabweans have had enough of economic misery. We can no longer entertain those among us who wish to give our people an anaesthetic that slumbers them into perpetual suffering in the
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Where political supremacy is a monopoly of a few powerful kleptomaniacs, opposition is the slow and painful starvation of the masses, and hard work no longer rewards as much as unquestioning obedience to power.
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by Reason Wafawarova Where political supremacy is a monopoly of a few powerful kleptomaniacs, opposition is the slow and painful starvation of the masses, and hard work no longer rewards as much as unquestioning obedience to power. Patronage politics create an environment where condescending politicians manipulate the behaviour of all to enlarge their power tentacles. […]
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THERE are peculiar and bugged out narratives about the life story of Nelson Mandela that sometimes one feels compelled to rescue the name of this legendary son of Africa. No amount of malevolence can ever take away the greatness in the name Nelson Mandela, and
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The experience of post-colonial peoples across the world demonstrates that every single day is a struggle for emancipation, and by necessity post colonial people must align themselves only to the principle of social justice, never
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NO sane politician worth the name would ever pledge to cut ties with the electorate after winning an election. It is politics 101. If you spend time, money and effort ingratiating yourself with a constituency the last thing you would want is to alienate the same
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THE culture of invincibility among political leaders is not just an egoistic endeavour from power-hungry individuals failing to control the urge of unbridled ambition, but in a huge way it is the ubiquitous character in our people that blindly hails individual heroism above the
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Reason Wafawarova Power can be the way to a people’s freedom, the way to a fully democratised society and it is indeed the key requirement for the realisation of any form of emancipation. But power in the wrong hands can be disastrous, and the greatest challenge for any head of state
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“When you write and you get the flak from all the dunces making a confederacy against you purely on the basis that they feel offended because you have no sugar coats for their political affiliation or beliefs, be rest assured you are a genius.”
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THE darkest secret in Zanu-PF politics is that too many of its membership and leadership imagine that they lead a revolutionary life based on the pertinacious concept of the liberation legacy.
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For the first time in over a decade, Zanu-PF is enjoying significant amounts of smiles from regional and international friends and colleagues, at least at open forums — thanks to the collapse of just about all Western-inspired
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Zanu-PF is founded on the leadership of a people who have in the past suffered immense colonial injustices, and among them is President Mugabe — a man who can be compared to someone who has survived a perilous disease, and then devotes all his energies to vaccine
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