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UK in Zimbabwe: From tragedy to farce

A poetic clichÃ© 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 the present moment it particularly hold…

Published: 28 May 2018 at 16:05hrs | 3 | 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 he continues to shed are not enough to d…

Published: 19 Dec 2017 at 15:16hrs | 12 | 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 ideas has taken up an idea of war as th…

Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 13:27hrs | 5 | 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 before them, nothing before them and a…

Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 18:26hrs | 6 | 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 ingesting a substance that triggered other sleeping…

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 substance that triggered other sleepin…

Published: 20 Aug 2017 at 17:23hrs | 42 | 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 Mugabe as a political and historical phenom…

Published: 04 Aug 2017 at 13:00hrs | 6 | 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 Mugabe as a political and historical phenom…

Published: 04 May 2017 at 17:27hrs | 6 | 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 Police has reported to him that you have be…

Published: 30 Dec 2016 at 16:08hrs | 10 | 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 have for so many years been defined by pain, …

Published: 31 Aug 2016 at 09:00hrs | 2 | 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 for so many years been defined by pain,…

Published: 06 Jul 2016 at 16:27hrs | 4 | 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 crunch, increasing poverty of the masses, in…

Published: 12 Jun 2016 at 16:31hrs | 4 | 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 his many shadows. Robert Mugabe "the thin…

Published: 25 Feb 2016 at 16:29hrs | 6 | 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 political drama and spectacle, but only simpl…

Published: 14 Feb 2016 at 11:08hrs | 4 | 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 understood and sometimes liked but an ite…

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, has become a metaphor of the country. His…

Published: 10 Oct 2015 at 21:48hrs | 4 | 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 manufacture the feeling that the world i…

Published: 10 Aug 2015 at 14:02hrs | 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 to manufacture the feeling that the world i…

Published: 10 Aug 2015 at 13:30hrs | 5 | 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 true fashion of the Marikana massacre where poo…

Published: 21 Apr 2015 at 08:25hrs | 1 | 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. The whistle in his mouth stopped when h…

Published: 19 Jan 2015 at 14:30hrs | 3 | 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 subject of idiots as an intellectual and p…

Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 21:49hrs | 5 | 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 reactions that range from worship to caricat…

Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 10:27hrs | 6 | 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 except through the production of truth." M…

Published: 02 Nov 2014 at 19:43hrs | 2 | 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 power except through the production of truth." M…

Published: 01 Nov 2014 at 08:36hrs | 3 | 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 that there is all this legal and political noise in Zimbabwe concerning the Baba Jukwa ent…

Published: 07 Aug 2014 at 07:31hrs | 1 | 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. When the political effects of illusions take p…

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 Shamuyarira.No. Moyo was under attack from the t…

Published: 10 Jun 2014 at 16:24hrs | 8 | 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 is either a tragedy of cataclysmic proportions o…

Published: 30 Jan 2014 at 07:01hrs | 4 | 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 profanities and pumping bullets into his heart, the he warned "don't do anything silly my son!…

Published: 13 Jan 2012 at 10:59hrs | 3 | 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 AfricaâˆšÃ‰Â¬Â¢âˆšÂ¢â€šÃ„Ã¶Â¬Â¨âˆšÂ¢â€šÃ„Ã»Â¬Â¢s…

Published: 05 Jan 2012 at 09:20hrs | 1 | 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 criminalisation of his important political discourses and his demonisation by the media in South Africa and beyond ar…

Published: 23 Nov 2011 at 12:54hrs | 13 | 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 dictators progresses. The telling signs are c…

Published: 10 Oct 2011 at 09:44hrs | 2 | 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, rudderless of the destination and ill-equipped ag…

Published: 26 Aug 2011 at 11:11hrs | 3 | 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 hippoâˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨â€šÃ‘Â¢s legendary short-temper and propensity to violence against humans and other animals, …

Published: 19 Apr 2011 at 13:03hrs | 663 | 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 as primitive animals that urgently needed to b…

Published: 06 Apr 2011 at 04:21hrs | 1 | 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 people are God. In the dusty and deserted city of Bheng…

Published: 01 Mar 2011 at 07:24hrs | 266 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana

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