Emerson Mnangagwa – MTHWAKAZI INDEPENDENT

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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Post-colonial Zimbabwe: a horrendous experience for the ordinary citizen

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Trying to muzzle Gukurahundi victims’ voices is inhumane

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Public influence on policy shows no sign of growing

Core to the functional feature of a political system is who runs things or rather who does the system permit to run things because this determines the shape, capability and responsiveness, that is, the ability of institutions to facilitate desired actions in a timely manner. The consistent feature of the four decades of independent Zimbabwe…
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Pay attention to who your leaders idolise

You can cut through the tension in Matabeleland’s political environment. What we are facing is the contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate political development and the people’s ever-growing need for a better life. This is a critical stage in our political development and we need to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our…
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Gukurahundi Hearings

It is a big step for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to declare that his government will not ignore Gukurahundi. Denial has been the only chosen path for ZANU PF. We have witnessed the damaging political effects of denying justice to Mthwakazi citizens, enforcing poverty and dehumanising Matabeleland people while perpetuating ignorance that feeds into Mashonaland delusions…
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Mnangagwa’s political deception

It is not lost to the Matabeleland constituency that Zimbabwe’s independence has been nothing but an ethnic Shona franchise that disproportionately benefits the ethnic Shona constituency. Zimbabwean politics is a ZANU PF tribal supremacist creation based on habitual and uninterrupted deception.
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1980s Gukurahundi Killings

Dark clouds covered the sky over Matabeleland, day was turned to night; everyone including the law, fell silent as the predominantly ethnic Shona black government of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe deployed a specialist Fifth Brigade military unit to kill and maim unarmed civilians between 1983 and 1984. Just for belonging in a different tribe, Ndebele…
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