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When all friendship ceases!

Von Hornick's nine principles on National EconomyIn 1684, an Austrian lawyer-turned-civil servant, Philipp Wilhelm von Hornick, published nine principal rules of a National Economy.The 17th century was the age of mercantilism, which is how…

Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 07:57hrs | 2 | by Jamwanda

Chamisa: Hoping for tricks of providence

A belch from a priest has greater valueFor a shiny trinket / Give not away your country / The foreigner is a trafficker / To mind him is no bargain / If you were skilled and artful / You'd stay away from all concoctions: / The stranger alw…

Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 06:49hrs | 4 | by Jamwanda

White skin, black masks!

Two developments caught my attention this week. One is a Brenthurst Foundation scholarship invitation to young Africans intent on pursuing postgraduate studies.Brenthurst Foundation is owned and financed by the Oppenheimers, and recently c…

Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:08hrs | 2 | by Jamwanda

Chamisa left the fact-finding Mission deeply unimpressed

One Morris too manyWhat it's a name?The name of the old Triple C activist "beaten" in Murehwa is Morris Seremani. Morris as also the name of one turncoat freedom fighter who betrayed the Liberation Struggle, and led Rhodesian soldiers to Z…

Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:22hrs | 4 | by Jamwanda

Triple C: Puny-wise, Pint Foolish!

Obdurate immaturityIT is not like Nelson Chamisa had not been warned, whether by living men or by past circumstances. Both did; yet he still hurtled headlong towards yet another blunder, which left him bloodied, again underlining this obdu…

Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:56hrs | 1 | by Jamwanda

The dangers of a long colonialism

Walking the last mileBY the time you read this piece, Queen Elizabeth II, late sovereign of the United Kingdom and titular head of the pizza-like Commonwealth, will be two days away from her final interment. I condoled with the British Roy…

Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Jamwanda

Kasukuwere: To be or not to be!

Widening Russian War Aims What a week we have had! War works largely on laws of the unforeseen and the unintended. The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, has ominously hinted at the widening of Russian war aims in Ukraine, and this a…

Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:27hrs | | by Jamwanda

Chamisa's lightning rod

God's emissariesI have nothing against clerics or pastors; in fact my reverence for them is a euphemism for the abject fear I hold of being denied the side and place of comfort in the world yonder. They are, after all, our intercessors in …

Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:33hrs | | by Jamwanda

CCC: A Triple Legacy for Zimbabwe

 Dying for European perspectiveAMUSING if it was not tragic. The European Union, EU, has granted Ukraine candidate status. It's a remote stage along a very long continuum to eventual EU  membership. In effect, it means the EU con…

Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:22hrs | 3 | by Jamwanda

CCC craving for Ian Smith and his come-again UDI

Craving for Smith, a Second RhodesiaTHOSE who have read big book know what Spinoza saw clearly as the problem which political philosophy could not crack , a problem which Wilhelm Reich rhetorically restated in the following question: "Why …

Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:07hrs | 1 | by Jamwanda

Chamisa: When the snake bites the charmer

Staring the abyssVery slowly but definitely quite surely, the world is drifting towards a scary nuclear abyss. The conflict in Eastern Europe now has all the makings of a major superpower confrontation.There is no telling how matters will …

Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:10hrs | 1 | by jamwanda

ABC of knowing Mbudziyadhura munyaya dzematongerwo enyika

Not many zealous seemingly political Zimbabweans know @daddyhope, better called Mbudziyadhura. Let me measure for you the depth of his political convictions and what sets him hissing. I will do so from our own experience ZANU-PF and Govern…

Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 19:38hrs | 1 | by Jamwanda

Deconstructing anti-Chinese feeling in Zimbabwe

It doesnâ€™t take much to realize the same forces pushing anti-China feelings in Zimbabwe are the same forces associated with pro-sanctions politics which feed fat on a failing, weak Zimbabwe. The real sin of China is its presence policies…

Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Jamwanda

Chilonga project runs contemporaneously with Bulawayo Kraal already quietly underway

This morning I attended a high-level meeting on Chilonga Irrigation Project following the hue and cry on this terribly misunderstood and much maligned community irrigation which is one of several planned by Government this year on communal…

Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 14:27hrs | 3 | by Jamwanda

Zimbabwe continues to shame doomsayers, as opposition pins its hopes in PATHOGENS

During my schooling days when I chewed works of Karl Marx, Frederich Engels and Vladimir Lenin, one term one repeatedly met in one's study of the three sources and three origins of Marxist thought was UTOPIAN SOCIALISM largely developed by…

Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 08:17hrs | 4 | by Jamwanda

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