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A new way of doing things is being inculcated in Zimbabwe. The narrative is very clear that we have to recall the political mode and deploy more economics and a policy discourse.
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Elliot Ziwira@ The Book Store As you read this instalment from the shelves of the Bookstore today gentle reader, spare a moment for the brave sons and daughters of the Motherland, who put their lives, limbs and blood on the relentless blade of the colonialists’ machinery of brutality and plunder. It is such selfless sacrifice […]
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Through assimilation, France sought to create a black man who would think of himself as French first and African second; a black Frenchman, who is educated in the French ways and sees everything through the eyes of a Frenchman.
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If a vision lacks realism, it also lacks credibility. Any father can come to their children and promise them the most fanciful toys envogue but a credible father will not come with fanciful promises when he knows his circumstances cannot back their delivery. But it is only a credible parent who sits down their family and tells them their circumstance realities. We don’t choose our parents but we can choose our leaders. Let us make the right choice.
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There are two sides to Zimbabwe’s elections. There is a side that wants to portray the country as peaceful and going through a democratic process in which the will of the people will prevail and be respected. They have done a lot and beyond paint the country as stable and democratic.
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To this writer a soft person or, more specifically, a soft leader is one who has emotional intelligence. It is one who has a lot of empathy and that empathy attracts people to them. Emotional intelligence also means one has emotional discipline and is not given to too much impulsivity. Their inner circle is highly inspired by the person that they carry his vision forward even if he himself doesn’t care much about public speaking.
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The paralysis, malaise and claustrophobia that weigh down on familial, communal and national discourses leading to despondency, frustration and dispiritedness is told in such a way that the reader cannot help locating himself or herself in the different sites that the poets open up.
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The New Dispensation brought civility into our politics. It brought respect and, more importantly, it brought dialogue. This dialogue replaced diatribe against the Western powers, diatribe against the opposition and even diatribe against some of our neighbours such as Botswana. President Mnangagwa told a rally in Bulawayo that it took a dialogue of just seven minutes for President Khama, President Lungu and himself to reach a multilateral agreement on Kazungula crossing.
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The controversial and contradictory nature of liberation struggles across Africa in general, and Southern Rhodesia in particular, make the reading of Nyamfukudza’s hero in “The Non-Believer’s Journey” (1980) evocative, revealing and thought provoking . . .
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William Arthur Ward was an American who contributed a lot to the Reader’s Digest. His main genres were inspirational maxims and meditations and poems. One of the things he said was: “A pessimist complains about the direction of the wind, an optimist expects it to change but a realist adjusts the sails.”
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Land has always been a people’s pride, and it remains so, because without land ownership development continues to recede to the horizon. It is the womb to aquatic, mineral, agricultural and other natural resources, which makes it trite to wish away any struggle for its repossession.
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What is time? A simple answer that many might give is that it is a unit that measures the passing of one moment to the next.
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Free, fair and credible elections are expected to yield quick economic gains but should this Alliance win these elections, then all hell will break loose as they fight for the spoils of the victory. Are Zimbabweans ready to have another political drama at the expense of economic prosperity?
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Juxtaposing opulence and abject poverty, the dramatist takes the reader into the private space of the MP, who has become wealthy overnight, despite his low level of education, because of his links to power.
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Has anyone ever stopped to ask themselves why Nelson Chamisa lies, is caught out and does not backtrack or apologise or retract but will repeat his lie or totally ignore the fact that he lied?