An inherited crisis of imagination: A Long Essay concerning the understanding of Zimbabwe - Pt2

Continuing from here...Truth be said, this is a great opportunity for Mnangagwa. And truth be repeated, the...

An inherited crisis of imagination: A Long Essay concerning the understanding of Zimbabwe - Pt1

If it is a despot you would dethrone, see first his throne erected within you is destroyed lest what you call freedom is the strongest of chains. The Gibranian perception sums the November 201...

Joshua Nkomo considered a military solution

What I find interesting is the evidence that Joshua Nkomo seriously considered a military solution and went to implore South Africa to be neutral. Obviously South Africa would not have been neutral as...

Has Bosso finally capitulated?

Wothi ngizidlulele mina:Excavating snippets of the obscured Zimbabwean football landscape: Has Bosso finally capitulated?Today I have decided to write a brief about the interesting histor...

King Lobengula and the Rothschilds: A tragedy of a Son of Africa (Part 1)

'To tell men that they are equal has a certain sentimental appeal. But this appeal is small compared with that made by a propaganda that tells them they are superio...

Of Chief Albert Gumede, 'National' Reconstruction and the Unchaining of Django

In 1984 just at the beginning of Gukurahundi,( that rain that sweeps away the 'chuff) the 200 year old tree that King Lobengula conducted his business under,  was swept away by a rainstorm. A...

You just have to admire Dynamos FC: BOSSO mene mene TEKEL upharsin?

Kanti yagana inyamazana sikhona kwenzenjani? Zidla belindile kwatsho abadala!This is a response to Senor Bongani Mafu a great football and sports trainer.Th...

King Mzilikazi Reloaded: A story of how we begin to remember

"NO NO NO I will never say progress is being made....If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches there's no progress..you pull it all out ...

Mzilikazi the Sequel U-X Ongasolveki: The Shona are by no means enemies of the Ndebele nation!

This threatens to be a long piece. Besides the two primary texts, Andrew Giddens Bain's 'Moselekatse the Bull Elephant and Moffat's Matabeleland Journals' edited by AJR Wallis, the piece  h...

Let the 2013 Real Change Winner be Democracy …and If its Zanu-PF so let it be!

Considering the unfolding events in the Zimbabwean political scene today, it would appear history constantly repeats itself. But then again, as it pans out, Zimbabweans, a so called 'educated' lot ar...

King Mzilikazi unearthed: Affordances, Dynamics and Architectures

I have always been fascinated by Mzilikazi Mashobane Khumalo the man and king. Many questions about the man have remained unanswered and many gaps in literature have raised an eyebrow in any interest...