Category: Joshua Nkomo
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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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Vilification of Joshua Nkomo is a flawed political strategy
To try and remodel the late Joshua Nkomo, sacrifice and reduce him to a ZANU PF icon and coin his political ideological location as intently anti-Mthwakazi freedom is malicious disinformation that unfortunately serves to afford scoundrels in ZANU PF a peaceable existence they do not deserve. Focusing public ire on Nkomo for Mthwakazi’s problems is […]
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Will there be political capital in the ‘blame game’?
Analysis of its political past helps a nation put its unconscious political actions into words and into context it can be better understood. No patriotic Mthwakazian objects to the scrutiny of Joshua Nkomo’s leadership, but it is the narrative that raises eyebrows. Rather than analyse Nkomo and make judgement of him, we want to understand him […]
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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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Matabeleland critics should show political creativity
To date, the Zimbabwean regime has successfully kept the Mthwakazi nation passive by limiting the spectrum of acceptable opinion and tightly controlling the level of debate within the political space. While the rejuvenation of the nationalist agenda and critique of such local greats as Dr Joshua Nkomo are a welcome development in the 21st Century […]
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