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Vote-buying for beginners: A Zvigananda guide to electoral philanthropy

Meet Taurai Kandishaya - philosopher of the gutter, hustler by vocation, and a loyal missionary of the Zvigananda gospel: "In Harare, money speaks; morals take a kombi." He recently took to Facebook to reveal what the new gospel of Zimbabw…

Published: 09 Jul 2025 at 08:19hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

Chamisa in the shadows of political darkness

Justice Alfred Mavedzenge has done a very informative analysis on the behavior of Nelson Chamisa, and the radical change in his political personality since his ZINASU days of a firebrand student political activist, to the formation of the …

Published: 06 Mar 2025 at 15:08hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

Why unity is unachievable for Chamisa's MDC

Leading to election 2018, we saw the formation of what is now called the MDC - Alliance on the backdrop of massive campaigning for a united front against Zanu-PF, not around a common cause or unity of purpose. Leading to the 2008 Election …

Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:47hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

Revolution is the great teacher

Those living in luxury from the exploitation and suffering of others have traditionally always been opposed to emancipation struggles; they continue to be opposed to such struggles by the people today and will be even more so tomorrow. &nb…

Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:33hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

Value the national interest

Since the days of the French thinker, Niccolo Machiavelli, the primacy of the national interest has always formed the basis of foreign policy, and has been the foundation of every country's strength or weakness. I live in Australia, a coun…

Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 06:39hrs | 6 | by Reason Wafawarova

We cannot blame Nelson Chamisa without blaming all of us

We are under sanctions from the United States, the European Union and other Western outposts like Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and the ruin of the sanctions is without doubt. Our industries have hardly been functional for almost two …

Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:40hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

The disconnect in electoral democracy

Every four years the world is drawn to watch in awe as the United States chooses their next president, even to the point of fanatically following the bi-partisan primary election races, prominent of which have been the Obama-Clinton race a…

Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:06hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

Let us work for and defend Zimbabwe

We are in the second Republic, the christened new dispensation, and we are in the process of economically re-engaging the Western world, and I do not in anyway wish to undermine the decent efforts of those genuinely trying to find a lastin…

Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:24hrs | 3 | by Reason Wafawarova

Rule of law cannot be matter of opinion

We live in this modern world that the United States purports to lead with God-ordained civility; yet in it the rule of law has been reduced to a matter of opinion, as has become the concept of democracy. What the world has seen so far for …

Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 22:31hrs | 7 | by Reason Wafawarova

Only Chamisa has the economic keys to revive the Zimbabwean economy?

When Nelson Chamisa opines alongside foreign interests that nothing has changed since November 2017, the idea is to defeat today's ZANU-PF by psychological association to the leadership of former president Robert Mugabe, whose deposition i…

Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova

Why Africa finds it hard to support Chamisa's MDC

On the 11th of March 2007 the world woke up to shocking images of the bashed faces of Morgan Tsvangirai, Lovemore Madhuku and others after the police had forcibly dispersed an opposition organised gathering in Highfields. Nelson Chamisa sa…

Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

Chamisa badly wants a deal with Mnangagwa

FROM the time Nelson Chamisa entered mainstream politics as the youth chairman for the then newly formed MDC in 1999, his ambitions were quite evident. At the time all he was armed with was political activism and student radicalism, nothin…

Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:19hrs | 4 | by Reason Wafawarova

Abuse of media privilege

WHENEVER people talk about the media and journalism, phrases such as "media responsibility," "media ethics," "objective reporting," "public interest," "national interest", or "balanced coverage" are often highlighted as part of media ethic…

Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova

Democracy, elections bad for collective cause

SOMETHING is going wrong with democracy. Something has gone wrong with democracy. It was the most successful political idea of the 21st century, but increasingly democracy is running into trouble, not least because there are people who con…

Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova

Why elections are bad for democracy

Brexit was a turning point in the history of Western democracy in general, and that of Britain in particular. A drastic decision was taken through a one round referendum based on a simple majority, and the fate of a country and that of an …

Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 06:42hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

New dispensation and the rotten apple theory

Election 2018 is over, and it ended with telling lessons for the two main parties in the race. Zanu-PF nearly paid the ultimate price for years of infighting; something that clearly affected the outcome of the presidential race.On the othe…

Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 07:14hrs | 2 | by Reason Wafawarova

Biti anoints himselves custodian of all Ndebele memory

It has become common practice that political foes often depart from the conventional meaning of common vocabulary with astonishing flaccidity, that one would think they take the world to be populated with retards that are so gullible that …

Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova

Delusions of Zimbabwe intellectuals

JUST like the media, intellectualism is often overrated as both a source of truth and of accurate information - more so in the field of socio-political commentary.Blatantly partial academic political activists sometimes find themselves in …

Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:52hrs | 5 | by Reason Wafawarova

Election 2018, the propaganda model

French author Jean-Marie Domenach defines propaganda as "an attempt to influence the opinion and the conduct of a society in such a way that the people adopt a predetermined opinion and conduct." John H. Burma defines it as "a systematic, …

Published: 21 May 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

Chamisa: All confidence & no substance: Exciting road to defeat

Nelson Chamisa is a great gentleman with admirable determination and an exceptional drive of ambition. He inherited a political outfit that was at the crossroads because the then leader was simply exhausted and tired, much as he did not wa…

Published: 14 May 2018 at 06:45hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

Politicians must deliver on promises

Every politician knows that the key to winning elections is to make great promises. Nelson Chamisa in apparent novice excitement of taking over the MDC-T leadership after the death of Morgan Tsvangirai has taken the lead in reaching out to…

Published: 07 May 2018 at 07:11hrs | 2 | by Reason Wafawarova

MDC-T's history of failure

In October 2012, Nelson Chamisa wrote a piece titled "MDC-T: Last mile towards real change," where he stated Zimbabwe "saunters towards the demise of the ultimate phase of a hard transition."He said he believed the people of this country h…

Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 07:26hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

From Generation 40 to Bitterness 40

ZANU-PF has a life beyond any of its members, as indeed is supposed to happen with all well-established organisations â€” they outlive their members and they perpetuate themselves.This is what organisational sociology says.At the peak of f…

Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 05:22hrs | 3 | by Reason Wafawarova

Mugabe will go down in history an iconic figure of principle

OUR past is rich in history; the sacred sacrifices made by the founding fathers of this nation alongside many sons and daughters who perished for our freedom can never be overlooked.From the early days of the Samukange nationalism in the 1…

Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 04:11hrs | 2 | by Reason Wafawarova

Zimbabwe Election 2018: The prospects

Zimbabwe is once again heading into another election, as has become the norm, every five years since 1980.We are one of the few countries that did not start off as a one party state after we attained independence, although we have had one …

Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 16:00hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

Legacy is about ideas, not power

Our political culture in Africa can be dangerous for democracy in its Aristotelian sense. We somehow believe politics to be an art based on the invincibility of political leaders, and this expectation among our people has given us egoistic…

Published: 22 Aug 2016 at 06:20hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova

National flag not a weapon of war

In our flag the youth must find new inspiration for loyalty to Zimbabwe, not the incitement to rebel against our own core values. In our flag the youth must find the inspiration for patriotism based not on mean or narrow nationalism, but o…

Published: 18 Jul 2016 at 06:33hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

Zanu-PF in opposition to itself

NOW that the opposition monster that rose at the dawn of the 21st Century has in every sense of the word imploded into irreversible self-destruction, it appears Zanu-PF cannot thrive without the once vicious opposing force from Morgan Tsva…

Published: 04 Feb 2016 at 05:20hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

Politics of factionalism

THE pestiferous culture of factionalism makes the concept itself a complex one, and it is not easy to give an easy definition of this inevitable scourge in politics. It is neither true nor factual to assert that the factional infighting wi…

Published: 21 Jan 2016 at 05:16hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova

Democracy, revolution are inseparable

Just as an atheist can freely sin without thinking of the consequences, our politicians have over the years hidden behind the rhetoric of either democracy or revolution their shortcomings, chief among them corruption.Our polarised politics…

Published: 14 Jan 2016 at 05:08hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

Zimbabweans are the masters of decoloniality

WHEN some of us write about decoloniality and post-coloniality, there are those that are quick to point out that it makes little sense to write all this stuff "from the comfort of imperialist countries," and the presumption here is that We…

Published: 19 Aug 2013 at 05:37hrs | 2 | by Reason Wafawarova

Morgan Tsvangirai - Small man in a big chair

Before Morgan Tsvangirai entered the world of governance he enjoyed a rather stupendous mass of sympathy support, both at home and abroad. This was precisely because opposition politics was merely about how much Tsvangirai would try to fig…

Published: 17 May 2013 at 05:24hrs | 2 | by Reason Wafawarova

Tsvangirai's political career has been the white man's burden

RECENTLY George W Bush was publicly dressed down by Zambia's Michael Sata in an incident seen by some as a light-hearted exchange, yet viewed as a major diplomatic mishap in some quarters.The Zambian president frankly told the 66 year-old …

Published: 16 Jul 2012 at 17:45hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

Zimbabwe: The rise of spectator democracy

WHEN Woodrow Wilson was elected to the presidency of the United States in 1916 his administration was committed to joining World War I at a time the US population was so pacifist that it saw no reason to get involved with a European war.Wi…

Published: 30 Jun 2012 at 16:14hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

The bogeyman of white supremacy

The documentary "Mugabe and the White African" is quite unbearable to watch, more for its outrageous propaganda content and much less for the vile and depraved image of Robert Mugabe it vainly attempts to portray - itself the evident credo…

Published: 19 May 2012 at 09:09hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

Who is Zimbabwe's true revolutionary

This writer was a mere 13-year-old on the eve of Zimbabwe's national independence in April 1980. Then there was an enigmatic political atmosphere pitting the overrated and defeated camp of capitalist-leaning political leaders who had favou…

Published: 11 Feb 2012 at 13:13hrs | 7 | by Reason Wafawarova

The Arab stolen revolution

After Israel and its Western backers defeated Arab nationalism in 1967, a solicitous Nizar Qabbani emotionally called for the rekindling of the Arab fighting spirit.He wrote in a poem:Arab children,Corn ears of the future,You will break ou…

Published: 09 Jan 2012 at 04:59hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova

The murderous western touch

So now Muammar Gaddafi has died; apparently after being incapacitated by the fire power of US drones and French gunship bombers, and left to face a very primitively ruthless death at the hands of the NATO led rebels.Jurist Special Guest Co…

Published: 27 Oct 2011 at 05:24hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

Democracy: Tyranny of the elected

QUINTIN MCGAREL HOGG, Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone once called the British House of Commons "an elected tyranny," and recent mass protests that were wrongly named in the media as "riots" and described by Prime Minister David Cameron as "…

Published: 18 Aug 2011 at 04:58hrs | 2 | by Reason Wafawarova

Revolution: Betrayal versus reason

A SLAVE who does not organise his own rebellion deserves no pity for his lot. He alone is responsible for his misfortune, especially if he harbours illusions in the dubious assurances of a master's promise for freedom.These are words remin…

Published: 28 Jul 2011 at 05:12hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

Reverence for hatred of democracy

THE truism that characterises US meddling in the political affairs of weaker nations can be the Reaganite "democracy enhancement", the Bush II "democratisation," or the Blairite "democracy promotion," but the dramatic demonstration of the …

Published: 21 Jul 2011 at 04:36hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

Thwarting independent nationalism

IT is not archaic reasoning and neither is it "Cold War rhetoric" to note that the real enemy of the United States and its Western allies has long been independent nationalism, particularly when it threatens to become a "contagious example…

Published: 14 Jul 2011 at 03:32hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

Osama, Obama Hussein in Operation Odyssey

THE West has turned a deaf ear to claims by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi that the so-called protests in Libya are in fact not protests from the people of Libya, but a complex opportunistic insurrection by an al-Qaeda affiliated group in Benghaz…

Published: 31 Mar 2011 at 05:13hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

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MISA Zimbabwe raises alarm over surge in AI-facilitated abuse of female journalists

Muswere Urges Citizens to Unite Against Alleged Constitutional Manipulation by ZANU-PF

'Umthondo' Cannot be illegal or indecent - but Gudo’s argument Is correct

Passenger vanishes with Taxi driver’s vehicle at lodge

Silobela Man Fatally Stabbed Over Missing Torch

CFU commends Zimbabwe's doing business reforms

ZACC has reclaimed a mere US$39m assets since 2019

Kaindu's faith and fight inspire Dynamos revival

Chanakira warns of confidence crisis

Zimbabwe agriculture sector surpasses US$10 billion

'Serial car thief' arrested in Beitbridge

Treasury releases US$101m for major dam projects

Zimbabwe's NHI Bill nears completion

Prophet Magaya's soldier-bodyguard in court

Chiwenga condemns Tanzania's post-election violence

Prophet Magaya remanded in custody

Bata workforce hits 1,326

Harare to make it expensive to bury the dead

Zimbabwe moves to make local holidays more affordable

Hlalani Kuhle beneficiaries get title deeds

ZESCO faces US$5m penalty for exceeding Kariba water allocation

Prophet Magaya and wife to appear in court

Mnangagwa leaves for Qatar

DANet Defends ZANU-PF-Aligned Philanthropists Amid Public Criticism

Plumtree man in court for assaulting brother over food dispute

Beer thief jailed for breaking into bar

Man rapes 93-year-old grandmother

Matebeleland South records drop in maternal deaths

Gorimbo's brave stand ends in painful decision loss

1 killed, 17 injured in Harare crash