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“INNOVATE or die,” Mutambara retorted dismissively in response to bankers’ complaints against the EcoCash platform.
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“Our present state of mind is that you are now our enemies,” these words said by Morgan Tsvangirai would mean little given his signature flip-flopping, but spoken by a stubbornly consistent Robert
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One cannot argue that Robert Mugabe is a saint. He is not. The man has committed his fair share of sin, as has Barack Obama, George Bush and Tony Blair. Indeed any mortal. That being said, were we to weigh these men on
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Let bygones be bygones, a cheerful Gordon Brown implored the people of Mozambique on a visit in 2005. Grilling Patrick Chinamasa in a television interview, Stephen Sackur,
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Speaking at a Press conference with Morgan Tsvangirai, Julia Gillard, the Australian Prime Minister, showered our dearest Morgan with generous albeit insincere praises. “You are as great as Mandela,”
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Human behaviour can be understood in the context of the logical and the illogical. These are not universal absolutes but are shaped by possessed knowledge. As such, it would be perfectly logical for villagers in Papua New Guinea to beat an accused witch to death.
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A GOVERNMENT lives to serve and to cushion the lives of the people over which it presides. Inadequate resources limit the socialist ideal in which the state suckles all the needy, but this spirit
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Mai Jukwa Political Mondays
Skilled negotiators begin their work by investigating and seeking to understand the mind of their opponent. This is crucial. It is only when you fully grasp the hopes, fears, beliefs and ignorance of -
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I recently stumbled on a set of three magical words. The incantation, if spoken in correct sequence, has seemingly mystical powers. Donor funds suddenly flow, visas are miraculously granted and fledgling careers receive the breath of life.
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The world as we see it is the outcome of human decisions. Our systems of government, the legal doctrines that bind us to contract, the laws of economics and the ordered systems of education to which we dutifully subject ourselves are all creatures of the human imagination. -
Mai Jukwa Political Mondays
I received not a few complaints following my recent article in which I confronted the hypocrisy and race-inspired duplicity of Bruce and Deborah, the American and British Ambassadors. This was not unexpected. As Benjamin Franklin said -
Some will protest the unrestrained aggression of this title. I offer no apologies for stating facts as they are. If the American and British ambassadors, Bruce and Deborah, wish for a more favourable appraisal, they must put an immediate stop to their shameless acts of dishonesty as well as their wicked and unprovoked aggression.
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Mai Jukwa Political Mondays
“You must not succeed through violence but through the effectiveness, the efficacy, of your theory’’. These are the words of the President. He has gone on to say that Zanu-PF will fight the coming electoral showdown like a wounded beast.
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Mai Jukwa
The British media routinely subjects its unquestioning audience with a villainous portrayal of a tyrannical Robert Mugabe menacing the streets of Harare with a Kalashnikov in one hand and a machete in the other. This mischievous narrative is not the child of ignorance. There is quite some method to this seeming madness on the part of the British. -
Mai Jukwa
The evicted white farmers have reignited their misguided demands for compensation from the Zimbabwean people. Let it be made clear, Zimbabwe will never compensate the British white settlers