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Reason Wafawarova on Monday In our flag the youth must find new inspiration for loyalty to Zimbabwe, not the incitement to rebel against our own core values. In our flag the youth must find the inspiration for patriotism based not on mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Zimbabweans will […]
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Reason Wafawarova on Monday We are equally aware that many Western “experts” have written and suggested that the root cause of poverty in Africa lies in government failure and corruption, not exactly in the colonial legacy and its imperialistic aftermath.
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Reason Wafawarova on Monday AFTER realising the futility of protest politics, it appears like Zimbabwe’s opposition is slowly transforming, if not grandstanding towards the nationalism rhetoric. Perhaps the importance of homegrown politics has finally dawned on opposition leadership. The opposition lately has abandoned the reactionary preaching of its monopoly of democratic values,
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Reason Wafawarova On Thursday Any writer expects criticism as natural, and one expects more of it when it comes with political writing. Zimbabwe is a country affected by necessitousness, and it is simply not possible to please everyone, even within the monolithic structures of a solid political party like ZANU-PF. The polarity within ZANU-PF right now […]
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Reason Wafawarova On Thursday I RARELY am ever persuaded to write this column in the first person, or to engage readers of this column about the person of the writer, who happens to be myself, the unassuming son of Bikita peasant villagers — born just under five decades ago, on the 130th day of the […]
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Reason Wafawarova on Thursday The Women’s League used to be the bastion of dignity, and respect, but now you have an unknown woman standing up to deride senior leaders in front of a multitude of followers.
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Reason Wafawarova on Thursday Professor Jonathan Moyo is in apparent trouble both as a member of Zanu-PF’s Politburo and as a Cabinet Minister, and he knows it. Like his nemesis Chris Mutsvangwa, also frantically fighting plots to oust him from the Politburo and from his powerful twin jacket of being the
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Reason Wafawarova On Thursday NOW that the opposition monster that rose at the dawn of the 21st Century has in every sense of the word imploded into irreversible self-destruction, it appears Zanu-PF cannot thrive without the once vicious opposing force from Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC.
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Reason Wafawarova on Thursday Last week I wrote on the politics of factionalism, outlining the negative implications of the scourge within the Zimbabwean context. The context of factionalism in Zanu-PF today is defined by futuristic perceptions, themselves a result of an uncertain future, premised upon the inevitability of departure by the
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Reason Wafawarova on Thursday THE pestiferous culture of factionalism makes the concept itself a complex one, and it is not easy to give an easy definition of this inevitable scourge in politics. It is neither true nor factual to assert that the factional infighting within Zanu-PF is a new phenomenon, just as it is a fact […]
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Reason Wafawarova on Thursday Just as an atheist can freely sin without thinking of the consequences, our politicians have over the years hidden behind the rhetoric of either democracy or revolution their shortcomings, chief among them corruption.
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Reason Wafawarova On Thursday THE impugned twin people-oriented policies of indigenisation and land reform have given Zimbabwe an international image of revolutionarism — easily making the country identifiable as Africa’s hotbed of post-independence emancipation. We have on the one hand the traditional capitalist global players who have a long standing track record of exploiting
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Reason Wafawarova On Thursday We most certainly cannot afford the current blandishment in the lexicography adopted by others in the debate on how and why the indigenisation of Zimbabwe’s economy should not only be a matter of priority or politicking, but in fact a matter of life and death.
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Reason Wafawarova on Thursday ZANU-PF was founded not as an opposition party to the Rhodesian Front, the ruling white minority party of the time, but as a revolutionary party set to execute the liberation of Zimbabweans from the jaws of minority rule, alongside twin efforts from PF-ZAPU. When we talk of the liberation legacy of […]
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Reason Wafawarova On Thursday The dialogical nature of any revolution lies in its collectiveness, in the cooperation of oppressed people towards the total transformation of the oppressive environment around them. Contrary to the misguided view that the revolution of land reclamation has been concluded in Zimbabwe, and that we are now in another struggle for […]
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