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23 August 2023: Our chance to make a difference?
Fellow citizens, ladies, and gentlemen, It is a great honour and with real humility that I write you today. I am morbidly aware that I am writing you at a very difficult time in the history of...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Mutsa Murenje
Mnangagwa will fall with a thud
As I prepared to leave Sydney and its congestion and retreat to a quieter place this past Sunday morning, my curiously inquisitive eye caught a disturbing news report in one of the weekend newspapers ...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Mutsa Murenje in Alice Springs, Australia
Winning the masses for positive change
I had received satisfactory results from my Advanced Level exams at Ruya Adventist High School in early 2003. Due to my contiguity to the seat of educational power, I had been informed that Nathan and...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 08:55hrs | | by Mutsa Murenje Sydney, Australia
COVID-19, ubuntu, and the demise of our oppressors
Since the beginning of 2020, the world has been battling against the COVID-19 pandemic which has proven, time without number, to be a biomedical public health emergency. Highly transmissible, COVID-19...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 16:26hrs | | by Mutsa Murenje in Queensland, Australia
Towards meaningful diaspora engagement
Globally, it is estimated that 1 in 7 people is a migrant. Though this measly figure appears to be statistically insignificant and to give credence to the critics of the so-called mobility bias in mig...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:36hrs | | by Mutsa Murenje, Queensland, Australia
We look up to the MDC Alliance
After successfully submitting my doctoral disquisition in October 2019, I thought of taking a three-month break as I waited for my examiners' feedback. This meant travelling to South Africa where my w...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 10:13hrs | | by Mutsa Murenje in Queensland, Australia
Reversing Zimbabwe's wretched conditions?
I took a long break from writing, focusing mostly on microblogging on Twitter. I have also reduced my presence on Facebook. Inasmuch as I would like to write frequently, I have come to terms with the ...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 07:19hrs | | by Mutsa Murenje
Sir Mnangagwa, nothing has changed
I have no iota of doubt that most of my readers have, by now, gone through Emmerson Mnangagwa's OP-ED (read lies) published by The New York Times on March 11, 2018. This treatise is a direct response ...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 05:34hrs | | by Mutsa Murenje
No sir, nothing has changed
I have no iota of doubt that most of my readers have, by now, gone through Emmerson Mnangagwa's OP-ED (read lies) published by The New York Times on March 11, 2018. This treatise is a direct response ...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 10:14hrs | | by Mutsa Murenje
In memory of President Morgan Tsvangirai
On February 15, 2018, I got up to the news that our dear leader, President Morgan Tsvangirai, of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) had passed on the previous night. As is my custom, I had gotte...Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 08:12hrs | | by Mutsa Murenje
Mnangagwa presidency built on quicksand
THAT is what it is, an opportunistic political dispensation brought about by Constantino Chiwenga's illegal, undemocratic and unconstitutional military takeover of political power in Zimbabwe....Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 05:22hrs | | by Mutsa Murenje
In defence of the Constitutional order
I would like to state from the outset, that I am wholly opposed to the coup, the military takeover that we have witnessed in Zimbabwe on Wednesday morning, November 15, 2017 when the rotten and malodo...Published: 30 Nov 2017 at 06:11hrs | | by Mutsa Murenje
Zimbabwe's Zugzwang situation: the need for superlative wisdom
Although born and bred in Chipinge, Manicaland Province, I have also spent some time in Bindura, Mashonaland Central. Much of my time in Mashonaland Central was spent as a student at Hermann Gmeiner S...Published: 15 Jun 2017 at 13:52hrs | | by Mutsa Murenje
Ignore Tsvangirai at your own risk
EDITORHe may not be the best we have but he is actually better than most political gladiators who have offered themselves as potential leaders in post-colonial Zimbabwe. For me he is the best ...Published: 12 May 2014 at 22:23hrs | | by Mutsa Murenje
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