Category: Zimbabwe
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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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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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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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Nobody is spared, the ZANU PF system is only loyal to itself
Reign of two perverse governments. Rhodesia was governed by white racial supremacist fanatics, to guard the welfare of white people, they created a biased system that worked brilliantly for the white man and woman, but it also protected the country’s broader economic interests. Then came independence in 1980, ZANU black tribal supremacist fanatics took over […]
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What’s the long-term political capital of the criticism of Joshua Nkomo’s decisions?
Generations upon generations have come and gone, and each generation has left its own legacy. Matabeleland has its own past for which Joshua Nkomo, the leader of PF ZAPU and most powerful and influential Ndebele in modern history, remains a significant figure; we must not seek to fix the blame for Nkomo’s past decisions which […]
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Why didn’t ZAPU of the last generation do more to combat ZANU tribalism?
Bashing ZAPU of yesteryear is not the objective of this article, political enlightment is; the situation in Matabeleland today is too dire for us to act from habit—to re-enact again and again the same solutions that brought us to our present extremity; today we are in no better position than we were during the colonial […]
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