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Future-ready youngsters: building critical thinking skills
Read more: Future-ready youngsters: building critical thinking skillsYoungsters are an integral part of our society today and into the future hence the 15th Century English proverb that says, ‘Children must be seen and not heard’ is hopelessly out of tune now if we are to secure the future of humanity. Children are the future, to secure the future, we must build future-ready […]
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Moral decadence and Zimbabwe’s political failings
Read more: Moral decadence and Zimbabwe’s political failingsGreed, supremacism, arrogance, selfishness, and intolerance have destroyed Zimbabwe. But we can trace all that back to pre-independence; gigantic errors and misjudgements were committed when the liberation movement waged an armed struggle against colonial monsters, we did not invest in lessons on how not to be a monster. We were taught to fear the white […]
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Defeat ethnocentrism for a stronger Matabeleland
Read more: Defeat ethnocentrism for a stronger MatabelelandDeepening insularity poses real and ongoing threat to growth and progress in the political space of a multicultural Matabeleland society; we are witnessing many walls being built and not enough bridges due to growing insularity overtures. Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance. We define ethnocentrism as the belief that one’s own culture is […]
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Protecting citizens against state violence
Read more: Protecting citizens against state violenceExtraordinary levels of state violence against certain population groups characterise the independent Zimbabwe state under ZANU PF rule. Citizens from minority population groups are quite deliberately exposed to disproportionately high levels of insecurity and violence at the hands of state and non-state actors. Matabeleland people’s first experience was in the early 1980s in the form […]
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Fostering creativity among learners
Read more: Fostering creativity among learnersKnowledge is the foundation of development, but it is what is done with knowledge that makes all the difference. How knowledge is translated into usable products is critical for society. Arguably, lack of innovation in the African setting is the poverty of our education system. Clearly, incentivising theoretical comprehension without a comparable investment in learners’ […]
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Changing leaders but retaining poor institutions isn’t enough
Read more: Changing leaders but retaining poor institutions isn’t enoughAfrica’s Achilles’ heel is weak institutions and limited access to justice which remain a great threat to sustainable development. Strong institutions are the pre-requisite to sustainable development, there is no substitute. Matabeleland needs a clean break from the perennial inefficiency of mainstream politics in Zimbabwe and take responsibility in building effective, accountable and responsive local […]
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Matabeleland must not succumb to ZANU PF politics of fear
Read more: Matabeleland must not succumb to ZANU PF politics of fearUsing fear as a political motivator has proven to be not only an effective tactic but a widely used tactic across the globe. This is no more apparent as in the fact that the fear of a nuclear attack is used to keep the world order on check. To varying degrees terrorism fear has been […]
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Zimbabwe: Time to tackle systemic tribalism
Read more: Zimbabwe: Time to tackle systemic tribalismYou cannot genuinely talk of building a bright future when you are in denial of factors darkening the present. Zimbabwe’s primary problem is endemic tribalism, but this view is not universally accepted, a position that raises challenges to any attempts to address it. Tribalism in Zimbabwe is endemic because the socio-political systems that govern society […]
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Gukurahundi is a lived reality never to be forgotten
Read more: Gukurahundi is a lived reality never to be forgottenWe just want to make a few observations: Gukurahundi happened. Mugabe was a demonic figure. The hypocrisy of those who say Gukurahundi is the past that should be forgotten is not lost to us, they also happen to have holocaust as a topic in their history syllabuses. Someone must tell those tales because they make […]
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Building a diverse Matabeleland political movement coalition
Read more: Building a diverse Matabeleland political movement coalitionIt is in the interest of the Matabeleland movement to rise above sectarian and individual interests and show our communities the value of all people, accommodation of difference, respect for individual talent, inclusion and acceptance. We are unapologetic about our desire for political change and greater inclusion within the movement. Talent must not be lost […]
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