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Zimbabwe, like the generality of post-colonial Africa is still smitten by the brutal scourge of ancient social ills, be it famine, disease, pauperisation or any other forms of harassment. This is despite the -
Reason Wafawarova
It did not take Hitler’s monstrous ambitions to drive the American population into the war mood that became synonymous with the First World War. In fact, Woodrow Wilson was elected to the US presidency at a time the American population was extremely pacifist that it saw no reason whatsoever for any form of involvement in a European war. Wilson and his administration realised that their commitment to war was not a shared opinion with the public and they decided to do something about -
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Zimbabweans are heading for elections in March 2013 and this is the time when politicians cry out the “we are so good” message with so much conviction that makes it fashionable for all others to believe the rhetorical utterances from the self-anointed custodians of our opinions — the loud mouths that hail from the powerful political community. -
In politics it is very important to whip up the population in support of the views and agenda of elites. In terms of policy, the population is usually pacifist and opinion on public policy is often a direct product of what the political elites tell the people, and not exactly of what people think.
If one looks at foreign policy for example, the public often sees no reason for interfering with other people’s lives in faraway lands and there is no reason why any member of the public should support the killing and torturing of innocent people by those that wield the might of military power.
American leading public relations figure Edward Bernays developed a theory he called “engineering consent,” which he fondly described as “the -
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Reason Wafawarova
Martin Luther King once said about stupidity: “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity,” and it is not overstretching to assert that in religion and politics stupidity is more of a virtue than a handicap, if of course we extend the meaning of stupidity to include gullibility and naivety.
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If ever there is a Bible verse that is quoted out of context it is Matthew 7:1, and quite often this verse is the favourite of people who are terrified at the idea of scrutiny against sinful deeds, people who are wary of preachers who preach loudly against sin, or against the people who point out any form of error, particularly when such error carries a possibility of being attributed to themselves.
The often misquoted verse reads, “Judge not, that ye may not be judged.”
So impressive is this verse with those on the side of weakness that even deviant politicians have been defended by some of their gullible -
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Gilbert Chesterton once famously said, “You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.”
Those who have appointed and entrusted each other as custodians of Zimbabwean opinion today annoyingly posture as litigious revolutionaries from whose benevolence we must expect some document to be called the national constitution. So legally talented are these people that they saw it fit to attach their own meanings to the raw data that was collected from the masses of Zimbabwe, discarding the essence and content of what came from the people, refusing to publish such information, and having the temerity to take back to the people a draft that has very little to do with what the people said, and all to do with the plan to have our people ratify the wishes of these estranged elites. -
Atheism is the best excuse to sin without thinking of the consequences, just like democracy has become the best cover to veil treacherous puppetry to Western imperialism, or revolutionarism has become the most trusted rhetoric to sustain monopoly of political power.
In Zimbabwe we have politically degenerated to levels where those who preach democracy have become inveterate opponents of the country’s revolution, deriding the country’s liberation legacy and even demeaning the generality of post-independence gains and we have seen people advocating for the isolation of the country purely on the basis that they hold a view that Zimbabwe’s revolution is a threat to their concept of
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Reality has a tendency of shaping public opinion in a completely independent and honest manner that many times does not favour power and to circumvent this annoying inconvenience those in power will always try to replace reality with images that they believe can hoodwink people into deceptive compliance. If one takes,
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Posting her thoughts on an Internet social network, writer Petina Gappah had this to say: “My friend Nick Twinamatsiko has pointed out that no African has ever been in contention for any of the Nobel Prizes in science. I am not surprised.” It takes men of exceptional brilliance to make it into coaching the biggest soccer clubs in the world, much as a soccer coach has to be stupid enough to believe that what they do is such an important thing in real life.
It is like believing that the Nobel Peace Prize is an important arbiter for the success of Africans.
You have to command an outrageous sense of gullibility to believe that kind of egregious nonsense.
A people shorn of the past, blind to the direction towards the future and uncertain of the present cannot tell from where they are coming and to -
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This writer received a very candid message from Senator Obert Gutu on Friday September 28. “I challenge you to respond to my article in the Daily News,” came the apt call from Sekuru Obert — am a son to Senator Gutu’s female line of the Madyirapazhe lineage.The piece in question was titled “Let us strive to save Zimbabwe,” a superb choice of a topic for a man whose naked intention was to ameliorate the battered image of his MDC-T in general, as well as that of its leader Morgan Tsvangirai — a man who abuses the notion of private life to approach women with an open zip and a shut mind — abusing political power and public funds to ravage on poorly educated vulnerable single mothers, as well as preying on very young girls of lesser financial means.
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South Africa’s post-apartheid transition has been tragically betrayed by a ruthlessly treacherous intra-elite economic reconciliation scandal started by President Nelson Mandela, and perpetuated to date by the African National Council leadership, in cahoots with white-controlled conglomerates.
Poverty, unemployment and crime have worsened sharply since independence in 1994, and it is ironic that South Africa’s post-independence era has exacerbated racial differences instead of eradicating them.
There is no doubt whatsoever that the governments of Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki dismally failed to redistribute South Africa’s wealth, just -
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Today we see impassionable crowds raucously cheering a new breed of charismatic preachers whose style of preaching is fashioned along the lines of celebrity evangelism and in many cases the emerging youthful preachers are indisputable Biblicists who can convincingly chain Bible verses to
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Reason Wafawarowa
In Nelson Chamisa’s world Zimbabwe “saunters towards the demise of the ultimate phase of a hard transition,” and he believes the people of this country have “subliminally” long stored decisions about an ideal future. But have they?
It is just as good that the MDC-T organising secretary realises the pending MDC-T demise coming with the last phase of the misnamed Global Political Agreement, and the confession that the MDC-T has been in Government for three years doing nothing but “subliminally” stalling decisions about an ideal future for the country is quite telling. -
Zuma shocked South Africans and the rest of Africa when his government voted alongside Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Lebanon, Gabon, Nigeria, Portugal, France, the United States, and Britain for a resolution that authorised the invasion of Libya.
As Libya was burning and tens of thousands of innocent Libyan civilians were massacred by vicious aerial firepower from Nato thugs, Zuma tried a naive diplomatic withdrawal of association.
“We have spoken out against the misuse of the good intentions in Resolution 1973,” he said in Parliament.
“We strongly believe that the resolution is being abused for regime change, political assassinations and foreign military occupation.”
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