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Are you clumsy at prayer like me?

Our budding socialisation is keen on teaching us math, geography and science as critical skills of life and sundry tools of solving ours and the problems of the world we grow into. Many of us have reaped great rewards from academic educati…

Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:27hrs | 12 | by Zifiso Masiye

Civics must drive the VP's office

In our new kind of normal, where restraint, moral integrity and sound values have been replaced by lumpen orgy, profanity and clown foolery, I meet the question: So what do you think of the latest VP sexual audio than what's to be done wit…

Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:15hrs | 3 | by Zifiso Masiye

Of power and our intrinsic failings

Like so many of you, I too could never quite wrap it around my head. Just how does arguably the world's most developed nation connive to vote into the most important leadership position an unabashed bigot, a dimwit, a racist and an abusive…

Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:56hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye

Covid-19 lockdown: How times have changed

It was after four aborted attempts at assembling that customary team of amadombo, an attempt at receiving and meeting our prospective in-laws as a non-negotiable precondition to observe the cultural rite of lobola.Zoom meetings are sinking…

Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:08hrs | 4 | by Zifiso Masiye

Some 'good' that can come out of Covid-19

As usual, but maybe particularly now, at every funeral, as they bury loved one after loved one and in the hospital wards, as their parents sink in their own breath, people throw in a frustrated towel of anger and despair... "God, what God …

Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 10:05hrs | 30 | by Zifiso Masiye

Coronavirus and the mystery of infection

He waited by the bus-stop, all day, shaking his car keys rather impatiently, pacing up and down as each bus arrived, as each bus left. Only a dishevelled tramp sat by the benches, mumbling incoherently to himself...But no sign of his visit…

Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:45hrs | 2 | by Zifiso Masiye

Even your enemies, learn to love them

"VENGEANCE is mine. Neither hate nor be bitter with your brother, no matter how he has injured you. For when you hate, you must know, it is me and my Father inheaven that you hurt."Both to my bosom friends and to my back-stabbers, I owe a …

Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:28hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye

Have funerals become super spreaders of Covid-19?

I was six and Gogo was showing me how to deal effectively with marauding ants in the little hut where I slept."Mana kancane, ngikwenzele isililo sobunyonyo!" (let me create for you an ants funeral wake!) She would crush one or a couple of …

Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:56hrs | 12 | by Zifiso Masiye

The curse of education?

I was jolted by a friend's tweet last night. It said "I have learnt much in my lifeâ€¦ but the biggest stumbling block to my learning has been my education!"So it turns out, life is really one helluva choice, either of one jolly great ride…

Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 18:59hrs | 2 | by Zifiso Masiye

Change: Wither Zimbabwe?

I had to go cross to check the theory. What is the change we have been sold? Or is this another war-time dummy!Particularly when the quality and magnitude of change is huge and transformational, the level of involvement and participation o…

Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 14:22hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye

Bulawayo: The absent citizen

He must have been a pro. We never had a glimpse of the camera-man. He stood afixed to the door and focused on the desk and the town clerk's quivering face and frothing mouth. Even watching, many faint ears had to duck the flurry of explosi…

Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 18:24hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye

The pig in Mthuli Ncube's bacon

I had occasion in my last visit to my discerning barber to try and explain the latest glowing World Bank reviews of the sterling performance of finance minister Mthuli Ncube and the minister's impeccable global credentials.Unmoved, he stop…

Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:22hrs | 3 | by Zifiso Masiye

Lead if you may, without power

The top left grandstand at the iconic White City Stadium gave me a vintage hawk's eye view of proceedings. Increasingly, White City has become an arena less popular for sport, for football and Boy Ndlovu than it is for hair-raising politic…

Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 09:24hrs | 3 | by Zifiso Masiye

Mnangagwa wants a critical friend, not more praise worshippers

Always, there was something inherently evil about that dinner table, authority and truth-to-power. I shall come to that.My maternal grandfather's very name said it all â€¦ Ndabakayithethwa! (Literally, no room for discussion!) He was this …

Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:33hrs | 2 | by Zifiso Masiye

Bulawayo's love letter

To trade fair or trade foul, that is the question.In the past week, Bulawayo woke up to that roving, rattling helicopter sound, hovering low, above her rusty rooftopsâ€¦the harbinger of the city's most iconic calendar ritual, the Zimbabwe …

Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:33hrs | 13 | by Zifiso Masiye

Of heroes betrayed, forgotten

When, in the fullness of time, the lies can hold no longer, when the frail bottom of deception falls off, when the foggy morning dew of orchestrated media smokescreens withers and gives way to the power the solar element and, as they say w…

Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:55hrs | 2 | by Zifiso Masiye

Building national confidence

And so the old Indian tale is told. When the country became infested with venomous cobra snakes, government, in its wisdom, reacted with a smart snake stabilisation programme.A dollar for every snake you killed and submitted at your villag…

Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:38hrs | 2 | by Zifiso Masiye

Selfishness, self-interest, opportunism and corruption

Dear Mr President,Policymaking and policy implementation are areas that we like to think of in idealistic terms in which the actors are altruistic. Often, we accept a certain level of self-interest among policy makers on the assumption tha…

Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 10:51hrs | 8 | by Zifiso Masiye

Nuggets from the men's conference

I just sneaked out of a boot-camp for that boy-thrill, the urge to break a cardinal rule: What happens at the men's conference stays at the men's conference! The thrifty snitch in me couldn't resist the urge to tell. So, a virtual setting.…

Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:07hrs | 5 | by Zifiso Masiye

Zimbabwe won't die, the youth will save it

What really caught Ian Smith unawares was presumptuous complacency and his government's arrogance of incumbencyâ€¦ a deeply entrenched sense, both of class entitlement and invincibility based, not so much on any careful appreciation of the…

Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:40hrs | 7 | by Zifiso Masiye

A divided people, a defeated people!

The national shutdown or stayaway is developing in interesting dimensions.... It is not as peaceful as earlier predicted and disturbing reports of loss of lives keep filtering in. Variously motivated comments for and against the strike act…

Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 13:41hrs | 5 | by Zifiso Masiye

What leaders? No more than tortoises sitting atop lamp posts

I decided in the new year to return Kuumba, my beautiful pet tortoise, to his wild, natural habitat of Matojeni.Besides my amazing wife, few sights and few life experiences have left a greater impression or ever etched as permanent a place…

Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 10:54hrs | 3 | by Zifiso Masiye

Which way Prof. Ncube?

Somebody observed rather poignantly ,that every cobbler , house wife ,vendor and taxi driver in Zimbabwe is a spontaneous master of economic phenomena , aerodynamics ,football formations and medicine! With zero experience and half an ' O' …

Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 07:50hrs | 5 | by Zifiso Masiye

Mnangagwa doing things differently from Mugabe

Much to the chagrin of the opposition dictatorship, Nkosana Moyo predicted, well before the elections, that a President Emmerson Mnangagwa would do things, (not necessarily well), but certainly differently from Robert Mugabe. The fervent a…

Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 12:55hrs | 5 | by Zifiso Masiye

Mthuli Ncube has invited to his breakfast table ingredients from both the chicken and the pig

The unmistakable, yet inevitable atmosphere of limbo, utter despair, confusion and analytic paralysis engulfs the nation yet again. It has become our accustomed portion.The triumphant arrogance and cocky bravado with which some of us embar…

Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 10:06hrs | 2 | by Zifiso Masiye

Graft remains Zimbabwe's national sickness

The aftermath of one of Zimbabwe's most remarkable harmonised elections in recent history has been marked by a heightened sense of national anxiety.There is a curious mixture of great hope and sanguine optimism for new beginnings; and an e…

Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 08:01hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye

Five years of peaceful storm

"I cannot vote for my tormentors. Never!"Of the thousands of statements made this election year, Robert Mugabe's openly paraded acrimonious divorce with his childhood love and avowed life partner, Zanu-PF, clearly takes the trophy of "divo…

Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:58hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye

What government awaits Zimbabwe next week?

How is it that with such a long, rich history of pain, and deep experience of heartbreak, abuse and lies, smart girls still fall for the lies of cheap confidence tricksters and con-lovers? How is it, in this age of google, an information a…

Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 10:37hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye

Trust, not arrogance, will deliver a good election

The 2018 World Cup spectacle has been a jarring and intriguing global tournament at many levels. Besides the remote control tensions and conflicts it visited unto our living rooms and the early humble pies it served on the Lionel Messis an…

Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:01hrs | 2 | by Zifiso Masiye

Zimbabwe's answer doesn't lie in the box

And so it is with my Grade 2 granddaughter. Only yesterday, she sought my help with what seemed to me a very simple multi-choice Math problem. My wife and I have always admired the rare professional approach, the refreshing passion and sen…

Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 14:32hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye

2018: Why do we prefer bad leaders?

Behold the Ides of March are come and gone with little event and no fanfare, save for some bitter blue roof rantings of an aged, vanquished, fangless rattlesnake.The dim headlamp of Election 2018 begins to flicker and appear on the politic…

Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 09:05hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye

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