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The next few days will be interesting as many countries of the world congratulate Zimbabwe on its historic success while there will be a few grumpy acknowledgments that will not exactly take away the major breakthrough that has been this transition.
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MY TURN WITH TICHAONA ZINDOGA The Elders came. They saw. They went back to wherever they had come from. But before the Elders left, they gave us a statement. A sign. The Elders are a grouping of eminent former world leaders committed to promoting peace and human rights. Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan led […]
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On Monday we woke up to a screaming headline in an opposition-leaning newspaper that told us that the MDC-Alliance had given the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission an ultimatum of 24 hours to address “demands for transparency in the printing of ballot material” by end of business on the day.
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Zimbabwe is in the homestretch towards its harmonised elections, that quinquennial political jamboree which, like all other shindigs, is the ultimate expression of power, lust and passion.
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Bronnert is a British diplomat. Her latest job is the Director-General Economic and Global Issues at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office where she was appointed in April 2017.
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At a bar somewhere a guy – possibly some political party panjandrum or activist - was shouting knowingly and betting his last dollar that in the few weeks to come we were going to see former president of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, address the opposition MDC Alliance rally and endorse Nelson Chamisa for president in the forthcoming elections.
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A significant historical and geopolitical question is quickly resolving itself in Zimbabwe.
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THE election season in Zimbabwe is earnestly on and the launch of the Zanu-PF manifesto for 2018 last Friday, lent weight to the momentum towards a ritual that should be held soon.
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Just recently a radio promotion on Zimbabwe’s Independence Day – which the nation celebrates today – struck me for its continued reference to the term “freedom” instead of “independence”. Zimbabwe attained its Independence from colonial power Britain on April 18, 1980 following a long war waged against the settler regime by black nationalists. The imperialist […]
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Zimbabwe is celebrating its newest holiday, the Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day, for the first time today.
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MY TURN WITH TICHAONA ZINDOGA WE knew it. We knew that the succession issue in the opposition MDC-T would not pan out nicely, and that is why a few weeks back we dismissed a statement by leader Morgan Tsvangirai that sought to portray him as having settled the matter by appointing Nelson Chamisa and Elias Mudzuri as additional two vice presidents of the party two years ago.
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MY TURN WITH TICHAONA ZINDOGA We wish we could talk nicely to one cartoonist from a private daily and his publishers for the reproduction of a wonderful cartoon they carried a couple of days back. It’s too late, unfortunately. The cartoon, in one of the more redeeming features of the newspaper in question, depicts former Vice President […]
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MY TURN WITH TICHAONA ZINDOGA Last week, opposition politician and lawyer — one of Zimbabwe’s few politically active white men — David Coltart, published on his blog a statement “on Rhodesian atrocities, his time in the BSAP and an apology for his role in sustaining an unjust system of government, which discriminated against people of […]
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MY TURN WITH TICHAONA ZINDOGA TO state, as we hereby do, that Zimbabwe and Britain — the former colony and the once mighty empire — need each other perhaps now more than ever, sounds uneasy, if not rather awkward.
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by Tichaona Zindoga THE world has been caught in an extraordinary storm following United States President Donald J. Trump’s reference to Haiti and other African countries as “sh*thole” countries. The term is considered derogatory and many people believe that Trump was being racist in using that vulgar term with reference to African countries, while he suggested […]
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