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Politics of sympathetic pregnancies

Politics of mimesis Opposition in Zimbabwe - not the Zimbabwean opposition - is in a deep mess. It is vainly looking for causes, models and examples. Our politics, it would appear, has entered a phase which the Greeks would call mimesis.Th…

Published: 11 Aug 2024 at 18:27hrs | 93 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday

The death of coalitions

To drag out or not to drag Biden!What a disaster for the Democrats in United States elections!With little foresight or care, Democrats pitted a dead-man-come-to-life by the name of Joe Biden, against the waspish and already bitterly hostil…

Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:16hrs | 5 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday

South African GNU and Zimbabwe economy

GNU as portfolio controlThis week, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa was inaugurated for his second and last term in office under the current Constitution.What is now awaited is announcement of the new Cabinet under the GNU arrangem…

Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 11:28hrs | 7 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday

The imbecility of Macron - 'Africa can't manage the world!'

Imbecility of MacronFollowing a wave of anti-French feelings across Francophone Africa, a former Economic Minister for France, one Thierry Breton, took to twitter and posted the following: "It's the imbecility of Emmanuel Macron that opene…

Published: 18 May 2024 at 10:43hrs | 322 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday

Zimbabwe: Chekhov's middle age monks

From a writer, critic, traveller, doctorI am reading selected letters of Anton Chekhov, the Russian writer, critic, traveller and medical doctor.The letters span a big chunk of his life, reflecting all the four roles rolled into one.This g…

Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:03hrs | 5 | by @Jamwanda2 On Saturday

Zimbabwe politics: Lineaments of stock characters

What are stock characters?LET me be basic so I am accessible to many of my readers, whatever level of education, and from whichever discipline they hail.In literature we have what are termed stock characters.The more complex terms used for…

Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 15 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday

Chamisa's politics of salving troubled consciences

Politics and poetryWilliam Butler Yeats, I think it was he who said out of our arguments with others we make politics, but out of arguments with ourselves we make poetry!We can forgive WB Yeats, the Irish poet who died in January 1939.He l…

Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:10hrs | 6 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday

Opposition: Politics and Pisgah sight fallacy

A student of CultureAT heart and at soul, I am a student of culture.This is why I opted to read Literature at college, much of it drawn from the Western World.But that was to get certificated.Once I was, I wondered off beyond Western Liter…

Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 07:15hrs | 24 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday

Banks: If gold rusts, what will iron do?

Native Commissioner Oates, I presume!LORD Jonathan Oates' ambition is becoming a latter-day colonial Native Commissioner.Too late chum, both by age and history! Still both don't deter him from trying, or indulging in compensatory conduct, …

Published: 14 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 6 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday

Chamisa: When the Goliath Complex Afflicts

My early days in primary school were dominated by the story of Goliath, the giant of Philistine.Goliath's name was onomatopoeic; this sonorous name heavily suggested physical hugeness afflicted by minute intellect. In his figure, size over…

Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:38hrs | 3 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday

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