Zimbabwe – 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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Only cowards try to build by selling hatred

You can run a misplaced campaign of your hatred for other nations to an obliging audience, but at the end of the day you cannot transpose your lack of ideas with hatred, you will still need good policies to address the problems faced by the nation, and you do not empower people by dehumanising others.…
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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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Zimbabwe Sanctions Focus A Diversion from Corruption Problem

Questions of moral authority within the Zimbabwean society are suddenly urgent and essential; we have allowed corruption to thrive leading to the erosion, in real terms, of independence in all aspects of citizens’ life; people are political prisoners held hostage to ZANU PF ideological imposition; they are physically emaciated, hungry, jobless, and hopeless. To adjust…
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Moral decadence and Zimbabwe’s political failings

Greed, 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 monsters. Instead we were taught to fear the white…
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Protecting citizens against state violence

Extraordinary 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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Changing leaders but retaining poor institutions isn’t enough

Africa’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

Using 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

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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