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Nathaniel Manheru THE OTHER SIDE They say when you want to know a man’s in-between economy, just follow his wife’s bitter mouth. I thought the week was loaded enough, thought that the week would yield no more surprises. I was wrong, wrong to forget a Nigerian proverb which warns against writing off a
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Pusch Commey Correspondent WITH the arrival of a youthful political force in the name of Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), who have made the land ownership issue a central theme of their agenda, the unresolved land distribution question, 21 years into democracy, is reaching boiling
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Nathaniel Manheru THE OTHER SIDE Temba Mliswa thinks he should cut links with Mai Mujuru. He alleges she has failed to defend “the people” when these were being expelled from the party, Zanu-PF
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Nathaniel Manheru THE OTHER SIDE I AM reading an autobiography of Francis Robert Thompson, better known in our history as “Matebili” Thompson. You notice I avoided “by”. It is an autobiography in the loose sense of the word, for the book was put together posthumously by Thompson’s daughter, Nancy Rouillard. Her father died in May […]
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Nathaniel Manheru THE OTHER SIDE Of course David Cameron has won, confounding and consigning the overweening Milliband, and worse, condemning those damn God’s deputies, those notorious pollsters! I never knew that these seers can be that off the mark? Where is the close-to-call scenario they painted, the coalition permutations they drew, to serve us a […]
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Nathaniel Manheru THE OTHER SIDE I am intrigued by Tsvangirai’s own strange sense of an electoral boycott. He refuses to participate in by-elections lest his hard-up party confirms its terminal decline through a poor showing certain to put paid to claims of a post-split revival.
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He always puts me to shame each time he writes, this Ghanaian. I am talking about Baffour Ankomah. As always, his latest Beefs pass for a gem. Adorned with well-chosen quotes from our African icons, Baffour has this ability to make one guiltily accept his excoriating
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THE OTHER SIDE by Nathaniel Manheru The national political pot sweats and effervesces. The faggots beneath burn wild and incandescent, heating up the medley soup inside which leaps wild, jumping past the giant pot’s rim, out to infinity.
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The Other Side with Nathaniel Manheru It must be a very difficult period for America, Obama especially. There is no rhyme, no reason, to the workings of the world that America has made.
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While Rhodes sleeps, sleeps well at the Matopos, he sits on one in Cape Town, the place he lived most and from where he dreamt colonising Africa, north of the Limpopo. Among his many beneficiary institutions was the University of Cape Town, which today empties a whole bucketful of faecal matter on the man so
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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side I WILL share this one with you my reader. After all, my performance in the past weeks has been culpably erratic. So this other day a friend taps my shoulder, a sure sign aida kundibatisa (to confide). I demurred and this is what followed. Pal, you are
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Nathaniel Manheru THE OTHER SIDE I AM reading a book under the Oppenheimer series, a book on Thomas Leask’s diary entries covering his travels in Botswana and Zimbabwe, travels undertaken between 1865 and 1870.
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Nathaniel Manheru President Mugabe turned 91 last Saturday. He publicly celebrates his birthday today, a good seven days after. I join him, editorially that is. Not so much to feast on his age.
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Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side One riotous evening in the eighties, the late Dambudzo Marechera started his vivid address to a writers’ indaba by what seemed a senseless, irreverent postulate: “We are a sexually active nation!”
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The Other Side with Nathaniel Manheru I have just been reading Didymus Mutasa’s interview with the South African Mail and Guardian newspaper, and two things stand out in the welter of words he spewed.
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