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AN enormous woman, dressed in that charming overdose of colour unique to these parts, gestures for attention. Impatient, she lets out a deafening yell. It’s impossible to ignore. The occupied trader quickly turns to her, instinctively packs an assortment of fruit, grabs the
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Africa’s move to assert a collective position on the ICC has caused quite some discomfort in Western capitals. It is good for you, their NGO’s loudly proclaimed. Africa has no capacity to dispense its own justice, their surrogates lectured.
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My Government alleges that sanctions imposed by your governments have destroyed the Zimbabwean economy. You reject this argument, insisting that you have simply put in place “restrictive measures” on Mugabe and his rowdies.
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It is always with great hesitation that I turn my pen against a fellow comrade. However, national interest trumps political affiliation. I cannot remain silent in the face of gross incompetence. The Passport Office is a national disgrace.
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ROBERT Mugabe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Constantine Chiwenga, Jonathan Moyo, Ignatius Chombo and so the list goes on. These are merely a handful of the Machiavellian characters that are at the heart of Zanu-PF. Reading the list one thing becomes clear, all of them
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Zimbabwe’s dire economic situation is in need of radical policies, policies that work as part of a wider strategy to ignite rapid economic growth over the next five years. The solution is not to be found in fearful protectionist policies, neither is there hope in the orthodoxy of textbook
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THIS past week, the world was consumed with talk of military intervention in Syria. The Americans have determined to go in and we witnessed, as we have come to expect, the Western media unquestioningly cheer-leading Obama’s war talk.
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Argumentation is a perverse pleasure. My first indulgence was at the age of 12. I had become progressively conscious of the idiocy of a particular Wrestling show on television. I suspected it was rehearsed, but had no evidence to prove my suspicions. An excitable unemployed uncle who had
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“Born a man of little imagination he found fortune in the holding hands of foreign allies of European extraction. His ambitions were suddenly swelled by the generosity of the same and he soon esteemed himself a king. His struggle of 14 years was coloured by an uncommon and commendable tenacity as he fought to unseat
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It is clear to objective observers that the howls of protestation coming from opposition camps and their energetic white backers are born of nothing, but mindless desperation. The AU, Sadc and Comesa are saying free and fair; only the white people are objecting. This is to be expected. Their dishonesty is not difficult to
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THIS election is coloured by peace. Western media outlets, desperate for any measure of negativity have instead focused on what they call “attack ads” being flighted by Zanu-PF. Some have described these as hate speech with one particularly colourful publication leading with the
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THIS is election; two radically different economic approaches are being tabled before the electorate. One party, MDC-T, speaks of jobs. This sounds seductive until one considers that the Marikana miners who were massacred in South African had jobs. The farm labourers who lived in komboni’s had jobs. The men who lift punishingly heavy
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A FEW months ago, I wrote on Deborah and Bruce, the British and American ambassadors. It was my charge that they were shameless hypocrites; not of conscious or deliberate effort but by an involuntary and subconscious superiority complex that has permeated their collective white psyche over a number of centuries.
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IT astonishes how much absurdity, inconvenience and discomfort we needlessly submit ourselves to. It is tolerable to suffer inconvenience at the hands of self-serving political elites who twist policy into a grotesque lump of inefficiency. Unfortunate
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THERE has been much talk of a grand coalition. Welshman Ncube put those opposition fantasies to rest on Friday when he submitted his nomination papers as a presidential candidate. His name will now appear on the ballot.