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Colonial past impacts Africa’s present but African leadership will have to bear some responsibility

There has never been doubt of the damaging impact colonialism has had on Africa; it created a totalitarian world that embraced the doctrine that a black African was an inferior race, and treated him as such. Colonialism lay foundations for new ‘civilisation’ – total dominion of a people and place by another being the objective; […]

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Participatory democracy is Matabeleland’s best approach

Vital questions that cannot be ignored in our socio-political space are those to do with the threat to the community’s right to being; we want to be at the centre of whatever happens in our community and to be the centre of what happens in our community. We insist that for Zimbabwean politics to do […]
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A people that pays less attention to its principles soon loses them

Development, freedom and independence remain elusive to the African continent because its citizens have set aside the principle of Ubuntu. We want to be everything else but ourselves. The very idea of African independence was not only an acknowledgement that colonialism was vile and inhuman but also a recognition that Africans and Africa’s needs were […]
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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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Unending internal conflict is pervasive to Matabeleland’s political space

Underhand political activities that threaten to reshape the Matabeleland social space must be confronted for our nation to live. We have always defined Matabeleland as a peaceful nation, a culturally diverse society made up of communities with divergent backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas. It would appear that narrative is based on a pervasive selectivity and sanitisation […]
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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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Sinn Fein lessons for Matabeleland smaller political parties – patience pays

For years we have lamented that for many Matabeles the hope of a new era of equality and prosperity promised by the Zimbabwe independence in 1980 and later, the Unity Agreement of 1987 has failed to materialise. Years of political instability left Matabeleland underdeveloped in all areas; the region has some of the highest levels […]
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Post-colonial Zimbabwe: a horrendous experience for the ordinary citizen
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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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