Columnist / Dinizulu mbikokayise macaphulana
UK in Zimbabwe: From tragedy to farce
A poetic cliché by Karl Marx which claims that in the life of nations "history repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce" does not only keep gaining new meanings for all countries but at ...Published: 28 May 2018 at 16:05hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Mnangagwa: The bloody end of crocodile politics
Concealed to many of us is that the real misfortunes of a true crocodile pursue Emmerson Mnangagwa and the politics that he represents. The crocodile tears over corruption and crime in Zimbabwe that h...Published: 19 Dec 2017 at 15:16hrs | 4 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Yes. It's a coup, a genocidal political cleansing
Yes. It is a coup. Not against but about Robert Mugabe and his power. More than that it is a genocidal political cleansing. A political faction in the ruling party, a faction that cannot win a war of ...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 13:27hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwe in the Theopolitics of the Future
At one level Zimbabwe has finally hit its true Dickensian political and historical moment. That moment is "the spring of hope" and at the same time "the winter of despair." Zimbabweans have everything...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 18:26hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Grace Mugabe fears attacks and the assassination of her children?
IN the August of the year of Our Lord two important politicians found themselves in South Africa facing two different but equally grave protocols.One faced serious medical protocols after inge...Published: 22 Aug 2017 at 14:00hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Reptiles and Eagles in High Noon
In the August of the year of Our Lord two important politicians found themselves in South Africa facing two different but equally grave protocols. One faced serious medical protocols after ingesting a...Published: 20 Aug 2017 at 17:23hrs | 28 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Robert Mugabe the physical man naturally retreats
PERHAPS we must do that; abandon the "Him" and deal with the "It". We must leave the man and engage with the phenomenon. There are many profits in the present for reading and understanding Robert Muga...Published: 04 Aug 2017 at 13:00hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwe: Season of the MOU and the end of Political Innocence
Perhaps we must do that. Abandon the "Him" and deal with the "It." We must leave the man and engage with the phenomenon. There are many profits in the present for reading and understanding Robert Muga...Published: 04 May 2017 at 17:27hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwe: 2017 the Year of the Monster
It was a stern Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Minister of State Security, who looked at Ken Flower in the eye told him that Robert Mugabe, "the Prime Minister wishes you to know that the Commissioner of Poli...Published: 30 Dec 2016 at 16:08hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Dangers of Zimbabwe's politicism & egopolitics
THE spirited search for Lucifer and other expelled angels has taken Zimbabweans so many years and cost them many lives and lots of spirit, energy and property. The Zimbabwean economy and polity ha...Published: 31 Aug 2016 at 09:00hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwe: The Dangers of Politicism and Egopolitics
The spirited search for Lucifer and other expelled angels has taken Zimbabweans so many years. And cost them many lives and lots of spirit, energy and property. The Zimbabwean economy and polity have ...Published: 06 Jul 2016 at 16:27hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Robert Mugabe: Power and allure of the libidinal economy
In these last days of Robert Mugabe, to think of the Zimbabwean polity and economy is to confront crises, disasters and calamities. What is visible to even the uncircumcised is the crushing cash crunc...Published: 12 Jun 2016 at 16:31hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Robert Mugabe: The Head of State and State of the Head
At this late hour in the long day of Zimbabwean politics; the true Robert Mugabe is standing up to be seen. So many who are close to him; and have been for decades; are getting to know the man from hi...Published: 25 Feb 2016 at 16:29hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zanu-PF factionalism and the war inside Mugabe
Something big that we don't readily see is happening in Zanu-PF and to Zanu-PF. When the politburo met on February 10, amidst a strong crowd outside the Zanu-PF headquarters, the world expected politi...Published: 14 Feb 2016 at 11:08hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwe: A History of the Future
If in the present world there was no propaganda and no war, politics would not be seen and experienced as a very dirty game. The telling of lies as truth, marketing of myths as reality and the shootin...Published: 13 Dec 2015 at 19:50hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwe Otherwise
From the outside Zimbabwe is a true object of political and intellectual tourism, somewhere to explore and experience but never really dwell in. This country is also politically p.ornographic, well un...Published: 15 Nov 2015 at 17:35hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwe: Let us say Grace
At the expensive risk of being a hyperbolist, I argue that Zimbabwe is presently a political disaster that is impatiently waiting to happen. Anything can go wrong. Robert Mugabe, the old man, ha...Published: 10 Oct 2015 at 21:48hrs | 2 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwean politics in underwear moments
In the opinion of philosophers, Man the angriest and the saddest of all animals invented laughter to cushion himself from the pains of the universe. Man has invented gods, music, dancing and beer...Published: 10 Aug 2015 at 14:02hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwean politics in underwear moments
In the opinion of philosophers, Man the angriest and the saddest of all animals invented laughter to cushion himself from the pains of the universe. Man has invented gods, music, dancing and beer to ...Published: 10 Aug 2015 at 13:30hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
RSA Violence: Beware the Clash of Civilisations
The poor on poor, and black on black violence that is presently spreading out in South Africa must jolt all of us in the thinking world to some thinking about our thinking in politics. In the tru...Published: 21 Apr 2015 at 08:25hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwe: Memory, Knowledge and the difficult Future
Sometime in a lonely day in 1749, a small scale thinker with a taste for music and a reputation for familial irresponsibility was walking on a foot path in a village a few miles from Paris in France. ...Published: 19 Jan 2015 at 14:30hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
The trouble of Educating Robert Mugabe's Assassin
In recent days certain bold but infantile statements have been made that have caused some of us to reflect seriously on the problem of political silliness and historical idiocy in Zimbabwe. On the s...Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 21:49hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Robert Mugabe: An African Head of State and the State of an African Head
The political personality and historical project of Robert Mugabe is bound to arrest the attention of thinkers and writers for a long time to come. The Zimbabwean President has attracted extreme r...Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 10:27hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Mugabe and his wife Grace are terrified people
An observant student of power and its effects, the late French philosopher Michel Foucault noted that "we are subjected to the production of truth through power" and that "we cannot exercise power exc...Published: 02 Nov 2014 at 19:43hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Inside Mugabe's sealed succession envelope: Fear, self assassinations and a coup
An observant student of power and its effects, the late French philosopher Michel Foucault noted that "we are subjected to the production of truth through power" and that "we cannot exercise powe...Published: 01 Nov 2014 at 08:36hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Baba Jukwa and the goblin that went rogue
EDITOR: This is the last part of Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana's 'Grace Mugabe, Baba Jukwa and the Olympics of Power in Zimbabwe' article.I ARGUE th...Published: 07 Aug 2014 at 07:31hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Grace Mugabe, Baba Jukwa and the Olympics of Power in Zimbabwe
One stubborn theme that has arrested the attention of philosophers and poets from the childhood of humanity to the present era of technologised witchcraft is the theme of illusion and reality. Whe...Published: 05 Aug 2014 at 19:08hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Robert Mugabe, Power, and the Jonathan Moyo Effect in Zimbabwe
Contrary to prevalent opinion, Professor Jonathan Moyo's trouble with Robert Mugabe and some die-hard Zanu-PF old guards did not suddenly explode with Mugabe's tirade at the burial of Nathan Shamuyar...Published: 10 Jun 2014 at 16:24hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Robert Mugabe 'a haunted and stressed octogenarian tyrant'
AT 86, and approaching 87 years of age, Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe is the world's oldest ruler.Depending on where one stands, the political life and historical legacy of Mugabe i...Published: 30 Jan 2014 at 07:01hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Sangoma managed to expose how deluded and misled Mugabe has become
African Leadership: The tragedy of manufacturing godsThe president died laughing. Even as the angry young soldier broke from the parade shouting profan...Published: 13 Jan 2012 at 10:59hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
The African condition: Of Imperialists, tyrants and puppets
Chief among the many challenges that confront the African continent are three evils that African thinkers and intellectuals must urgently find durable solutions to---The vicious scramble for Africa√...Published: 05 Jan 2012 at 09:20hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Apartheid Did not Die, blacks in South Africa only gained
political independence and a colourful flag in 1994THE shocking wild celebrations of the punishment of Julius Malema, the cr...Published: 23 Nov 2011 at 12:54hrs | 6 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
The tragic end of Robert Mugabe
The political obituary of Robert Mugabe is a long and very sad narrative that is impatiently waiting to be scripted as the historical and political demise of one of Africa's dangerous genocidal dicta...Published: 10 Oct 2011 at 09:44hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Mugabe is expired political and historical merchandise
THE mentally "young" and politically "restless" Psychology Maziwisa has taken to political blogging with the gusto of an infant bird at first flight - unequal to the demands of the heights, rudderle...Published: 26 Aug 2011 at 11:11hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Chamisa note: ears of a hippo
A HIPPO is a titanic water animal that lives in seas and lakes while it predominantly feeds and patrols on the land. Besides the hippo’s legendary short-temper and propensity to vi...Published: 19 Apr 2011 at 13:03hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Africa must urgently stop Mugabe
THE imperialists who enslaved Africans and colonised their countries had one excuse for their evil project: that Africans were not exactly human beings but savages. The Africans were described a...Published: 06 Apr 2011 at 04:21hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Mugabe: A good candidate for Egyptation
I am still looking and searching for the vocabulary and diction with which to name and describe what I saw in Bhengazi. After what I saw, I believe that God is the people and that the peopl...Published: 01 Mar 2011 at 07:24hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
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