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Toxic intellectualisation: An addiction to overthinking risks sabotaging the Matabeleland liberation movement
For at least four decades, Matabele liberals have been pandering to Shona extremists. Instead of pointing at the obvious state failings, they are turning simple facts into complex academic accounts; they demand statistical evidence from our movements to prove the foundation of mainstream Zimbabwe politics is tribalism, but do not make similar demands so mainstream […]
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Expanding citizen participation is required to save democracy and Matabeleland
Less citizen participation in democracy reduces effective functioning of government because the representative nature is lost in decisions taken by government. It is becoming obvious that representative democracy is failing in Zimbabwe. We are of the view that less citizen participation – a direct result of the inadequate representative democracy – in political decision making […]
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Good research and a balanced narrative must guide Africa
Standing up to the immorality of political practices within independent African states is the ultimate expression of patriotism. When our forebear fought the inhumane colonial system and institutions they wanted in their place humane systems and institutions that reflected every individual and every community; they desired systems that were based on the equality of all […]
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Violence in politics in Zimbabwe and ZANU PF’s role
Gukurahundi atrocities set the tone for state terrorism when ZANU PF deployed a wholly ethnic Shona composed 5th Brigade to murder, torture and terrorise civilians in Matabeleland. Since then, violence has become a signature of politics in the independent Zimbabwe; in the eyes of a reckless, morally bereft ZANU PF, violence is a viable political […]
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Let’s talk about food security as part of the struggle
Conquering food insecurity is a global political and economic challenge. It has to be the focus of every Matabeleland political movement, and it can be achieved. Causes of human starvation often have a human component and are hardly unforeseen. Eliminating hunger off the face of earth is possible but you must have a leadership willing […]
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Deal with, don’t ignore tribalism in Zimbabwe
You can observe the same old trick of marginalisation in all aspects of Zimbabwean life today. Ethnic groups are fighting. Tribes are fighting. These fights are not just random fights, there are voices instigating them. We may not want to accept it, but hate is deep-rooted amongst some people in Zimbabwe using tribe as a […]
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Colonial past impacts Africa’s present but African leadership will have to bear some responsibility
There has never been doubt of the damaging impact colonialism has had on Africa; it created a totalitarian world that embraced the doctrine that a black African was an inferior race, and treated him as such. Colonialism lay foundations for new ‘civilisation’ – total dominion of a people and place by another being the objective; […]
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Participatory democracy is Matabeleland’s best approach
Vital questions that cannot be ignored in our socio-political space are those to do with the threat to the community’s right to being; we want to be at the centre of whatever happens in our community and to be the centre of what happens in our community. We insist that for Zimbabwean politics to do […]
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A people that pays less attention to its principles soon loses them
Development, freedom and independence remain elusive to the African continent because its citizens have set aside the principle of Ubuntu. We want to be everything else but ourselves. The very idea of African independence was not only an acknowledgement that colonialism was vile and inhuman but also a recognition that Africans and Africa’s needs were […]
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Matabeleland needs to do what is right by Matabeleland to build political capital
We are not oblivious to the fact that within the independent Zimbabwe’s political space we in Matabeleland have to date lost more than a few battles. However, we have the conviction that although we remain captive to the dark forces of evil which have made political capital and careers out of tribal slender and stereotyping, […]
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