Columnist / Nathaniel manheru
ANC the toddler
AM I wrong? I have always thought the goal of opposition is to govern? And I haven't said the goal is to lead. To govern. You can lead anything, at any level, including leading a village co-operative....Published: 03 Jun 2017 at 11:08hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Tendai Biti, a very small man masquerading as leader of a political party
As I write this piece, I am reminded of one Dennis Brutus and his "Gore'e". "Gore'e" is a poem about an island off Senegal by that name, an island from where Africans were loaded into ships for slaver...Published: 05 Dec 2015 at 07:36hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
ZANU-PF: In the absence of the big idea
LET me work and play with an observation by a Marxist literary critic, Walter Benjamin, who noted: "All great works of literature found a genre or dissolve one". Elaborating this great observation, th...Published: 14 Nov 2015 at 07:07hrs | 3 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zimbabwe police: Old wine in new bottle-skins
I SEEK reader indulgence in breaking a promise I made last week. I had committed this column to a follow-up article on the wider pointers beyond the media issues I dealt with. Little did I know that n...Published: 07 Nov 2015 at 07:23hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
What makes Robert Mugabe rattle his enemies so unfailingly?
What is it that makes Robert Mugabe rattle his enemies so unfailingly? Even when he does nothing at all?We have been having a big debate on the local media, more accurately, on a portion of it...Published: 26 Oct 2015 at 05:59hrs | 4 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Gutu makes claims that leave Tsvangirai as a principle butt
Last week gave us a hilarious story of Honourable Chinotimba seeking some kind of restitution for his "long lost" cellphone. Many will remember that the missing cellphone was blamed on the late Mahlan...Published: 17 Oct 2015 at 16:46hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Springtime: Rhodesians called it the suicide season
The Rhodesians called it the suicide season. Zimbabwe's springtime. Particularly the month of October when temperatures soar exponentially, and then peak. Even trees are drowsy and resigned; they wilt...Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 09:56hrs | 6 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zimbabwe is moving, evolving quite fast
Zimbabwe is moving, evolving quite fast. Not in the superficial neo-liberal sense in which a backsliding country can be pampered by Bretton Woods affiliates, pampered to vertiginous growth levels....Published: 22 Aug 2015 at 20:01hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Nelson Chamisa's dreadful mistake, 6000 workers fired
CAN someone tell me, just who is threatened by the First Lady hitting 50 years of age? Or by her celebrating that age? Or by the fact of taking advantage of that occurrence to fund-raise for charity? ...Published: 25 Jul 2015 at 10:25hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mujuru fluffing chances through prevarication, by being slow, cautious and unsure
THE OTHER SIDE Of course David Cameron has won, confounding and consigning the overweening Milliband, and worse, condemning those damn God's deputies, those notorious pollsters! I never knew that thes...Published: 09 May 2015 at 18:14hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Is Mujuru perceived as playing fair at home?
The national political pot sweats and effervesces. The faggots beneath burn wild and incandescent, heating up the medley soup inside which leaps wild, jumping past the giant pot's rim, out to infinity...Published: 11 Apr 2015 at 16:11hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mujuru was using Rugare Gumbo and Didymus Mutasa
It must be a very difficult period for America, Obama especially. There is no rhyme, no reason, to the workings of the world that America has made.Everything looks Frankensteinian, all proving...Published: 05 Apr 2015 at 17:59hrs | 4 | by Nathaniel Manheru
When the bitch is back in heat!
I WILL share this one with you my reader. After all, my performance in the past weeks has been culpably erratic.So this other day a friend taps my shoulder, a sure sign aida kundibatisa (to co...Published: 21 Mar 2015 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Rendering Mujuru superfluous
I AM reading a book under the Oppenheimer series, a book on Thomas Leask's diary entries covering his travels in Botswana and Zimbabwe, travels undertaken between 1865 and 1870.Like Livingston...Published: 07 Mar 2015 at 15:02hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
'We only look for opinions that belittle Mugabe'
I have just been reading Didymus Mutasa's interview with the South African Mail and Guardian newspaper, and two things stand out in the welter of words he spewed.First, the pronominal "we" is ...Published: 07 Feb 2015 at 07:25hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
The little boy who wrote MDC-T Manifesto
As I write this piece, my heart bleeds for the Maisiri family which lost a 12-year-old son in a horrific inferno last Saturday. I have seen images of the little boy's charred remains sticking out to ...Published: 02 Mar 2013 at 10:54hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side
The day Charamba fell pregnant
Putting your ideas in the public domain always has its pains. You are called names, given jabbing identities, misread...you name it. And you have to bear it all, meekly as behoves a humble columnist. ...Published: 27 Feb 2013 at 04:27hrs | 10 | by Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side
When the unintended so damages!
There is something I don't understand about our Government and our leaders. This Wednesday we had the Prime Minister's spokesperson telling Minister Chinamasa off for pointing out that the Prime...Published: 13 Jan 2013 at 06:07hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
The paradox of the 'white African' - when white is black and white
"I move that the House take note that tomorrow (Thursday) I will move a motion to nationalise and prescribe all Marange diamond fields."...Published: 22 Jul 2012 at 10:44hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
When Zanu-PF defeat gets so sweet
THE Thursday judgement by the Supreme Court gives legal weight to the call for early elections, does it not? Of course the judgement relates immediately to three constituencies.Yet its ramific...Published: 14 Jul 2012 at 13:56hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
MDC becoming a blunt instrument of history
Two weeks ago I penned a piece which used an esoteric term - zeitgeist - to make my point. I got a few calls from angry readers who wanted to know what kind of English that was, and why I thought it w...Published: 18 Feb 2012 at 09:15hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
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