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Mugabe must focus on writing memoirs

Former President MugabeNick Mangwana View from the Diaspora There are reports concerning a development in our polity where our former leader Cde Robert Mugabe is said to be attempting to play the...

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Time to depersonalise political parties

In Zanu-PF some servile comrades said then President Robert Mugabe should in the future chair the Politburo and Cabinet from the Heroes Acre as a dead hero. They could not let themselves be outdone by...

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ED’s compassionate politics good for nation

There are many good things that people can do, which they won’t do. We all know what’s right but we don’t always do it. We all see rubbish on the street and we don’t pick it up and throw it in the next...

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We should have said, No to Bob!

People in zanu-pf have been called cowards and all such names. Maybe we were. For surely talking to some comrades it is clear very few genuinely loved Robert Mugabe in his last years as President.

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Primary elections: Axis of democracy

The biggest measure of a party’s internal democracy is primary elections. If one wants to know whether the harmonised elections will be a true reflection of the will of the people then people have to...

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Rent-a-crowd; delude others not self

A few days ago, this columnist appeared to have steered a hornet’s nest by appearing to criticise the recycling of crowds from one rally to another as a show of support.

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Chamisa’s dangerous post-fact politics

Has anyone ever stopped to ask themselves why Nelson Chamisa lies, is caught out and does not backtrack or apologise or retract but will repeat his lie or totally ignore the fact that he lied?

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MDC Alliance too unstable to govern

Free, fair and credible elections are expected to yield quick economic gains but should this Alliance win these elections, then all hell will break loose as they fight for the spoils of the victory....

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Why digital money makes sense

William Arthur Ward was an American who contributed a lot to the Reader’s Digest. His main genres were inspirational maxims and meditations and poems. One of the things he said was: “A pessimist...

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ED walks the talk on re-engagement

The New Dispensation brought civility into our politics. It brought respect and, more importantly, it brought dialogue. This dialogue replaced diatribe against the Western powers, diatribe against the...

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Compassionate ED soft as wool

To this writer a soft person or, more specifically, a soft leader is one who has emotional intelligence. It is one who has a lot of empathy and that empathy attracts people to them. Emotional...

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Opposition impairing ZEC‘s autonomy

There are two sides to Zimbabwe’s elections. There is a side that wants to portray the country as peaceful and going through a democratic process in which the will of the people will prevail and be...

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Let’s elect a credible candidate

If a vision lacks realism, it also lacks credibility. Any father can come to their children and promise them the most fanciful toys envogue but a credible father will not come with fanciful promises...

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Embracing, enhancing devolution

A new way of doing things is being inculcated in Zimbabwe. The narrative is very clear that we have to recall the political mode and deploy more economics and a policy discourse.

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ED, the broken window philosophy

There are crimes that injure individuals, and then there are crimes that injure society. Crimes that injure individuals can be measured through weighing scales of gravity.

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