Africa – MTHWAKAZI INDEPENDENT

Africa must not excuse Russian invasion of Ukraine

Russian invasion of Ukraine has triggered the biggest hostilities between Moscow and the West. Moscow’s history of aggression makes it a dangerous and unpredictable neighbour for its neighbours in the Baltic states in north-eastern Europe. The invasion of Ukraine is unjustifiable and evil, and it must be challenged. We must refrain from adopting an apologist…
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Complaining about colonialism is a tired excuse that won’t solve Africa’s problems

Colonialism caused immeasurable damage to African society; it clouded our view of the past, and it has continued to cause devastating effect on the political and socioeconomic status of the continent; while the colonially related devastation is undeniable, complaining about colonialism and not our socioeconomic and political judgement since attaining independence decades ago has yet…
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Mthwakazi politics: who you associate with does matter

Independence in Zimbabwe is an illusion for the Matabeleland public, all thanks to tribalism; it is an open secret that the independent Zimbabwe has never opened its horizon for Matabeleland growth and freedom but has instead insisted on the restrictive control and management policy. We are victims of a well-orchestrated ethnic Shona tribalist regime and…
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Africa must take control of political path

Journeying through African independence has not been an easy undertaking for the ordinary citizen. Citizens must show their patriotism to their countries not tribes. We have been carved along tribal and racial lines, exploited, and abused by our own kind. Conforming to bad policies has been our major downfall. Now more than ever, courageous people…
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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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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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