Human Rights – MTHWAKAZI INDEPENDENT

Why Zimbabwe’s independence has become a horror movie

Once upon a time Zimbabwe was viewed with considerable optimism but that optimism soon vanished and was rapidly replaced with doom and gloom, today when the world pays attention to the country, it is generally because of all sorts of unpleasantries happening there. The independence dream, prosperity and presumed freedom from Western interference has turned…
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The Hypocrisy of Zimbabwe Freedom

Zimbabwe has turned out to be a greater betrayal of the black man – there is lesser independence for the ordinary black person than before. Zimbabwe’s independence goes like this: the more independent the black elite became, the more oppressed the ordinary citizens became; the more independent the black government became, the less independent the…
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Matabeleland Strategize to Gain and Maintain Political Power

We have no doubt that Gukurahundi – a ZANU PF-led state orchestrated tribal aggression and brutality in the post-independent Zimbabwe – has set the tone for the country’s political moral standard. The objective toward which Gukurahundi brutality was directed was to capture political power so that, using the power of the state, ZANU PF with…
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Gukurahundi Genocide – Do not force forgiveness

Forgiveness is a choice, let us not turn it into the highest order of moral authority; like not forgiving, forgiveness is like any other human feeling and/ or decision. It is a choice, personal, comes from within and is subject to many factors including the abuser’s genuine acceptance of wrongs committed. Matabeleland will refuse to…
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Future-ready youngsters: building critical thinking skills

Youngsters 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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Fostering creativity among learners

Knowledge 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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Zimbabwe: Time to tackle systemic tribalism

You 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

We 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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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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