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China vs USA: In the battles over lowly Zimbabwe, it is what Zimbabweans want that is important

There are a number of new stories that are emerging about the role of China in Zimbabwe. In the past, the Chinese Embassy would have been less robust in defense of its bilateral aid to Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean government, given its re-enga…

Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha

Economy as the superstructure in Zimbabwe

There were a number of by-elections in Zimbabwe over the last month.One was for the local government in my rural home district of Bikita East in Masvingo province. The others were for the parliamentary and local government openings in Lupa…

Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:57hrs | 8 | by Takura Zhangazha

Electricity cuts, lifestyles and modified behaviour in Zimbabwe

Electricity and access to it is a big issue in Zimbabwe at the moment. Not least by admission of our own government, but more importantly by the lived realities of many urban-based Zimbabweans, civil service workers, social service provide…

Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | 2 | by Takura Zhangazha

US$ as deity in Zimbabwe

THE Zimbabwean government recently did the unfathomable, at least according to social media pundits, some civil society organisations, unions and influential urbanites. It arbitrarily and abruptly re-introduced a local currency for all dom…

Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha

Zupco jokes, economic class and hedonistic individualism in Zimbabwe

There can be a bit of a laugh, if you are on social media, concerning the political-economic goings-on in Zimbabwe.There should not (strictly speaking) be. But on social media, there is and humour/satire is definitely a good thing. Even if…

Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 06:56hrs | 3 | by Takura Zhangazha

Africa in the age of surveillance capitalism, neo-imperialism

One of my first lectures in graduate school was on how "enlightenment era" Europe imagined and mapped Africa. And some of the first maps were silent about the interior save for pyramids to the north, elephants on coasts and an unknown "dar…

Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha

Zimbabwe's version of disaster capitalism, couched as resilience

A LOCAL Zimbabwean artist, Dereck Mpofu, recently released a song titled Mweya wechiZimba. Even though the title of the song may suggest it is religious, it is upon listening to it, that you discover it is far from being so.Instead, it is …

Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:10hrs | 3 | by Takura Zhangazha

Sadc, EU positions on Zimbabwe: Attempting an end of history

Last week, there were two very important statements issued on Zimbabwe by two very important inter-State political bodies. The first of these statements and closer to home was issued by the Southern African Development Community(Sadc) chai…

Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Takura Zhangazha

2018: The year in which anger took centre stage

At some point, almost every adult Zimbabwean could easily be defined as being angry in the year 2018.And all for different reasons. A majority of us were apoplectic about the state of the national political economy as accompanied by the pr…

Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 09:35hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha

One year after Mugabe: A revolution still not televised

On November 15, 2017, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's longest serving ruler was confined to his private residence in the affluent suburb of Borrowdale in Harare, Zimbabwe. This came as armed soldiers took control of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Cor…

Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 05:48hrs | 2 | by Takura Zhangazha

Zimbabwe's 'Black Gold', no rush plus capital wagging State's tail

THE government of Zimbabwe held a Press conference at which President Emmerson Mnangagwa initially announced that a private company, Invictus, had made oil and gas discoveries in Muzarabani district. No more than a day after the presser, t…

Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:10hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha

Mnangagwa's business dance, Masiyiwa's compliance

President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently held a consultative meeting with Zimbabwe's business sector. This came against the backdrop of a national economic crisis largely caused by a new monetary policy that sent commodity prices and informal…

Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 06:21hrs | 2 | by Takura Zhangazha

Strategy changes needed to push Zimbabwe media forward

IN this instalment, I will try to discuss, albeit briefly, strategic issues of the media in Zimbabwe, going forward. I am not sure how far forward we should look, but I would assume that so long we look forward, it helps.And perhaps that h…

Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 08:55hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

RBZ's Monetary Policy for the haves, not the poor

IN Zimbabwean writer Shimmer Chinodya's Harvest of Thorns novel, there is a description of the main character's father, Mr Tichafa, as probably having been the best minister of Finance that Rhodesia probably never had. This was because he …

Published: 04 Oct 2018 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha

Zimbabwe's next five years: 2018-2023 (realities, lies)

POLITICAL perspectives in Zimbabwe, at least after the recent 2018 general election, have tended to have a sense of immediacy and urgency.Spurred on by the fundamentally zero-sum power games that our national elections are or their highly …

Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 11:29hrs | 2 | by Takura Zhangazha

Corporates and cholera philanthropy

IT was recently reported that Econet Zimbabwe founding chief executive officer and now majority shareholder, Strive Masiyiwa issued a social media statement that questioned the transparency of the use of at least $10 million he/his company…

Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha

Belling Zimbabwe's electoral-ideological cat

IT will take a while yet for the national after-effect of the 2018 harmonised election to wear off. Praise singers of President Emmerson Mnangagwa will continue justifying his eventual victory, while those of the opposition will continue t…

Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha

Nyagura suspension: Reviving calls for academic freedom, prudence

UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe vice-chancellor, Levi Nyagura was recently suspended from office by President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa.According to a Press statement by the Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Developme…

Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:11hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

Zimbabwe elections: Recognition and God's Case, No Appeal

RECOGNITION of the result of Zimbabwe's 2018 harmonised elections was always going to be a matter of basic international relations. One would be forgiven for arguing about which countries recognise their legitimacy in return for either sim…

Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:04hrs | 3 | by Takura Zhangazha

Polls aftermath: Highly personal but collective political catharsis

THERE was always going to be a disputed winner of Zimbabwe's 2018 elections, especially after Robert Mugabe was no longer on the presidential ballot paper.And it was always going to be very personal in a number of ways.Firstly, it was the …

Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha

In defence of Zimbabwe's rural voter

WHEN the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) started announcing the 2018 election results, there was a lot of urban/social media anger at rural voters. The numbers that were being announced were indicating that the ruling Zanu PF party was…

Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:39hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

ZBC's problem is editorial, not advertorial

THE Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) recently issued a statement on its coverage of political parties during the current campaign period of Zimbabwe's 2018 harmonised election. This was after opposition political parties decried the…

Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:17hrs | 2 | by Takura Zhangazha

United in ambition, no high stakes: Zimbabwe's election candidates

I HAVE a number of friends and acquaintances that are running for political office in Zimbabwe's scheduled harmonised election.The greater majority of them intend to be local government councillors, others still want to be members of Parli…

Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 08:50hrs | 2 | by Takura Zhangazha

Zimbabwe elections: A complicit attempt at ending opposition politics

ZIMBABWE'S ruling establishment or military political complex are consistently referring to how they intend to stop focusing on "politics". Instead, as claimed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, they want to put all their energy into what th…

Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 07:19hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

Capital's interest, influence in Zimbabwe's 2018 polls

At the risk of stating the obvious, the "ease of doing business" is an inherently political term. Not merely because President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is using the term in each and every one of his major speeches. Locally and internationally.I…

Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 07:54hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

Chiwenga, reaching for history, missing the future

The recently-published interview given by the Commander of Zimbabwe's Defence Forces (ZDF) General Constantino Chiwenga to state-controlled media was a politically significant one. Not only for the ruling party, but more as an indicator of…

Published: 07 May 2017 at 08:22hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

Self-righteousness does not make SA exceptional, Cde Mbalula

South Africa's new minister of police Fikile Mbalula appears to have approached his new assignment with reckless enthusiasm. He was very recently quoted as having said that his country's immediate neighbour, Zimbabwe, has some of its ex-ar…

Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 14:18hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha

Mugabe's complex dominance without persuasion

A COMRADE in the academic world recently sent me a copy of a New Left Review article entitled "The Heirs of Gramsci". Largely focusing on intellectuals who furthered the Italian philosopher's thoughts and views on hegemony, the article bro…

Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 07:43hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

Augmented political realities in Zimbabwe

There is always interest in assessing how the interaction of new technologies affects everyday human realities. In the age of the internet, this is referred to as "augmented reality". It refers in part to how computer and internet-based te…

Published: 07 Sep 2016 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha

Zimbabwe's undemocratic dance with private grain

THE Minister of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development, Dr Joseph Made recently announced that in order to mitigate the drought Zimbabwe is faced with, Government is set to import Us$260 million worth of maize from our neigh…

Published: 07 Jan 2016 at 05:03hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

Zimbabwe bond coin vexing the masses

THERE are conversations that we are not having concerning our more mundane economic realities in Zimbabwe. I boarded a commuter omnibus, commonly referred to as a "kombi" in our country.An elderly lady, most probably a working mother, had …

Published: 30 Oct 2015 at 14:20hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

Zimbabwe opposition political parties in serious trouble

Zimbabwe's opposition political parties are in serious trouble and are functioning on a wing and a prayer. They however will not admit to it.The largest opposition in Parliament and also popularly, the MDC-T, appears to be entering a new p…

Published: 20 Oct 2015 at 15:27hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

5 reasons why voting on June 10 will be a waste of time

I am registered to vote in Harare's Dzivaresekwa parliamentary constituency. It is one of the poorest residential areas in Harare and like most urban constituencies in Zimbabwe, has over a decade of regularly voting for the mainstream oppo…

Published: 07 Jun 2015 at 14:51hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

Zimbabwe's 5 grim realities

In the last three months there have been at least two articles by renowned academics outlining how Zimbabwe is either undergoing the 'politics of despair' or alternatively  how our 'darkest hour is not before dawn.'  These articl…

Published: 26 Apr 2015 at 17:02hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

Econet is a key player in Zimbabwean politics

Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has over the years come to be a key player in Zimbabwe's national political economy.  Recently, a local weekly The Zimbabwe Independent published a story on its front page that Econet had bailed out the govern…

Published: 05 Mar 2015 at 19:04hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha

The ironies of Professor Jonathan Moyo's social media 'arrival'

The Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services, Professor Jonathan Moyo has announced, with a little bit of drama, that he is now going to be directly using social media platforms Facebook and Twitter.  Just in case he t…

Published: 10 Feb 2015 at 15:58hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

Mugabe's succession, war vets hold key

Veterans from Zimbabwe's liberation war are an ever present generational feature of our political landscape.Their narratives of the struggle have largely been captured by Zanu-PF as a political party and as a former liberation movement. Th…

Published: 20 Jul 2014 at 09:19hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

Zanu PF's three leadership succession plans

Watching and listening to President Mugabe's  Independence Day speech there was one line that struck me. It was brief  but it made mention of succession. Paraphrasing it, the President said something akin to succession being sort…

Published: 23 Apr 2014 at 17:56hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

Tsvangirai's generation has failed us

Four years ago, at the advent of the inclusive government, I once had an animated conversation with a lawyer and a businessman. Both were avid MDC- T supporters. They were both old school opposition activists.That is to say, they had been …

Published: 14 Jan 2014 at 06:30hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

President Zuma, 'It helps to think like an African!'

South African President Jacob Zuma is generally a man who harbours little fear of the negative consequences of his words or actions. Or if he does, he exhibits a certain confidence that he will overcome any such problematic effects of what…

Published: 23 Oct 2013 at 10:51hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha

The struggle for Zimbabwe democracy continues

When the inclusive government came into existence, discourse over and about the "struggle" shifted significantly. Whether this discourse was about narratives of "arrival", or alternatively, "continuity", the conversations were always incon…

Published: 01 Sep 2013 at 12:02hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha

Zimbabwe draft constitution: an elitist deception

I HAVE not yet read the COPAC draft constitution, and I will probably not read it because I do not have to.It is a document that can no longer take my views into account, no matter how many times academics or political gladiators defend or…

Published: 27 Jul 2012 at 16:56hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

Mbeki's Zim GPA was a major African diplomatic success

THE former director general in the South African Presidency, Reverend Frank Chikane, recently published an interesting if not controversial book. The title of the book, 'Eight Days in September: The Removal of Thabo Mbeki' leaves you in no…

Published: 29 Mar 2012 at 05:28hrs | 2 | by Takura Zhangazha

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