Zimbabwe – MTHWAKAZI INDEPENDENT

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 a monster. 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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Deviation from mainstream politics in Zimbabwe Matabeleland’s only saviour

Growth of the Matabeleland political movement also referred simply as ‘the movement’ is arguably victim to Matabele conformity. It is a largely held view of the present time that the movement is experiencing a series of pushbacks from Matabele nationals. There are many reasons for these costly pushbacks, but fear of the repercussions of upsetting […]
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To blame Joshua Nkomo is to lose focus of our times

Do not raise fingers, raise your responsibilities; own your challenges you will take charge of solutions. This is time to rid Matabeleland of pretence brave men and women – the authors of acts of cowardice that overwhelm the political space of today. We have naïve, disconnected men and women clearly letting the public down through […]
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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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