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THE OTHER SIDE NATHANIEL MANHERU IT’S been many seasons ever since this column was launched, more accurately ever since I adopted it from its “tired” founder, Professor Jonathan Moyo. While I know Nathaniel to be his middle name, I will not hazard a guess on why he surnamed it Manheru. A classmate of his who […]
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THE OTHER SIDE NATHANIEL MANHERU The year 1970 saw the birth of a publication titled “The Passing of Tribal Man in Africa”. Edited by a Canadian academic, the late Peter C. W. Gutkind, the publication challenged entrenched Anglo-Saxon ideas which had congealed into a fashionable discipline called anthropology which in fact had grown affixed to […]
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THE OTHER SIDE NATHANIEL MANHERU I don’t know what triggered it, but I just woke up craving for hard-reading stuff. Deep and tough reading. It happens quite often, especially when you suffer a surfeit of the mundane, the everyday, when everything looks unvaryingly matter-of-fact. Or when you are pelted by impossible whys and wherefores, by […]
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Nathaniel Manheru THE OTHER SIDE— AM I wrong? I have always thought the goal of opposition is to govern? And I haven’t said the goal is to lead. To govern.
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Nathaniel Manheru THE OTHER SIDE— ONE quote which high school history pupils in this country spout out with remarkable ease is one attributed to Otto von Bismarck, the German aristocrat and leader who is credited with the unification of Germany on the back of Prussia, then the leading part of the amalgam. There is no […]
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Nathaniel Manheru: THE OTHER SIDE— My deepest, heartfelt condolences to the Chidyausiku family on the loss of Godfrey, our recently retired Chief Justice. He was a fine character, an enormous lawyer by any measure.
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The Other Side: Nathaniel Manheru It is very easy to think it is the flash, not the flame; that burns big logs. The local media excitedly reported on the resignation of an aide of Mujuru’s Nats, in the process missing the actual burning flame of the whole story.
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Nathaniel Manheru: THE OTHER SIDE So it’s true after all? That Tsvangirai’s MDC benefited from Mai Mujuru and her late departed hero-husband, Chauya-Chauya’s Mavambo project? So why was she denying it when this column made that revelation for the benefit of truth and history?
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Nathaniel Manheru THE OTHER SIDE— One question many of my readers pose and even criticise me for is taking contrary thoughts too seriously. I fully understand where my readers are coming from. We have become a virtual community of opinion, creating that sense of becoming an extended patient whenever there is injury to any one […]
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Nathaniel Manheru THE OTHER SIDE— A cryptic but interesting response to my piece last week came from one “yowe” who advised me to read George Orwell’s classic, Animal Farm. I can only surmise that “yowe” is unaware that literature, English literature especially, is my forte, a situation that makes the helpful advisory somewhat a bit […]
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THE OTHER SIDE NATHANIEL MANHERU When Mugabe goes to Matopos (Hayi mani bakithi(!) — MATOBO!!!)
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Nathaniel Manheru: THE OTHER SIDE Gentle reader, I think it is a sheer waste of national time to focus on the collapse of ZimPF, spectacular though that may be. There was nothing unexpected about ZimPF’s dramatic finale, especially for you who have been reading this column. I gave enough hints.
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Nathaniel Manheru: THE OTHER SIDE— IT has been a week of laughter and good political humour, not least because my party triumphed in Bikita West, but also because of the clotted reasoning and prose which this defeat wrought in losers. It is a bit unkind to continue to mention names of the already distressed, but […]
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The Other Side: Nathaniel Manheru A key strategy of imperialism is raising false dust so as to cloud national focus and vision. Or to blur a clear identification and knowledge of who the real enemy is. History, including our own, is replete with instances where this time-worn strategy has been employed, indeed and has won […]
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The Other Side Nathaniel Manheru— In history and to the outsider, Zimbabwe has always been a fabulous illusion. An Ophir. An El Dorado, a home to the Queen of Sheba. If the wishes of early European “pathfinders” were horses, Zimbabwe would have wound up a German colony, possibly with Karl Mauch looming large in place […]
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