Nelson, this is not a playground

As anyone who has observed his conduct over the past year knows, bizarre and childish ideas from Nelson Chamisa are nothing new. We have had bullet trains travelling at double the speed of the...

A time for patience

At times of high tension or nervousness, I often turn to the Bible. In particular, I find comfort in a particular passage from Ecclesiastes: "To everything there is a season, and a time t...

Chamisa's recipe for violence: We must speak out against it

Nelson Chamisa has completely lost his sense of civic responsibility.  This is dangerous. Rumour has it that he has been learning from Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga. There ar...

It's Official: Mugabe gets Chamisa's VP Pick

While many in the MDC understandably claimed it would never happen, hoping that it wouldn't, it seems now as if it is finally official. MDC Alliance President Mr Nelson Chamisa is giving Grace...

ED's Meritocracy Should Be Welcomed

So we are told that we are entering a new Zimbabwe.  Day in day out, we hear promises from all candidates about innovation, turning over a new leaf, embarking on a new era.  I must admit I h...

Our Choice on July 30th

At its core, every election boils down to a choice. Between competing visions, ideologies, plans or personalities. Sometimes it is clear cut what the choice is, other times it is a little more opaque....

If they're shooting at you, you know you're doing something right

In a memorable episode of the hit US political drama, The West Wing, there is an assassination attempt on the (fictional) president by a white supremacist group. As his team tries to process the event...

The Chamisa doctrine

Kenya is no stranger to post election violence and chaos. In 2007, following the elections there was widespread rioting and violence, in which over 1000 people were killed and hundreds of thousands di...

Despite his youth, Chamisa today proved he is stuck in the past

For a while, I have had today, the date of the MDC manifesto launch, pencilled into my calendar as Decision Day. For weeks and even months now, as social media has been full of people proudly declarin...

Beware of the false prophet

MDC President Nelson Chamisa waves his Christian credentials about quite a lot. It is rare that he won't have a series of quotes from the Bible at the tip of his tongue and he will invoke the Lord's n...