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Even slaves refused to sell their souls
As the world marks 400 years since 1619, when Africans were first abducted and sold into slavery in America, this extract below from the book To Be A Slave by African-American author Julius Lester, pu...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Conway Tutani
Zimbabwe demonstrations - like sanctions - are not targeted
IT is hoped that several developments in the past week or so will finally open people's eyes to see that party politics is the only game in town; that politics is not the only thing worth concerning o...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:22hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Mthuli Ncube is not a Professor for nothing
"Be careful what you wish for," is an English expression used to tell people to think before they say they want something and to suggest that they may not actually want it. There may be unforeseen and...Published: 24 May 2019 at 06:48hrs | 7 | by Conway Tutani
Fuel crisis has nothing to do with MDC unconstitutionalism
Some of the problems Zimbabwe is facing today are clearly due to faulty thinking resulting in people mixing issues —and not knowing what the idiom "fair game" means.For starters, if Presiden...Published: 17 May 2019 at 17:32hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Africa has no divine duty to heed the West
IT'S quite refreshing that many Africans - both black and white - have refused to submit to Eurocentrism, where all things from the West are viewed in utopian terms in which everything is projected as...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Conway Tutani
Religious imperialism? Count me out
I WAS pleasantly surprised when people from near and far, from within Zimbabwe and beyond the borders, white and black, Christian and non-Christian came to the defence of the Zimbabwe Bird after the n...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 07:18hrs | 4 | by Conway Tutani
Zimbabweans will find Chamisa's Zimbabwe bird remark quite offensive
SOME people make it impossible for anyone to misquote them or exaggerate about them.Just when you thought politicians across the divide would tone down on rhetoric in the spirit of Independenc...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:29hrs | 5 | by Conway Tutani
MDC violence: A noble cause can beget savages
THE MDC Alliance’s initial reaction to their defeat in the ward by-election held in Cowdray Park, Bulawayo, last week was a classic or textbook example of denialism — the human tendency to deny re...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 06:42hrs | | by Conway Tutani
'A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination'
IT has reached the stage where, to be honest with each other, it is no more surprising that posting a most non-political and non-partisan message on social media praising Zimbabweans — one and all â...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Conway Tutani
These critics need more help than cyclone victims
CYCLONE Idai has brought out the good and the ugly in people.Many Zimbabweans have, commendably, risen to the occasion to assist fellow human beings, while others are using this as an opportun...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:33hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Forcing countries to pay debt in currency it denies them - that's the US!
ONE thing for sure is that Zimbabwe is not short of real original thinking to counter the West's capture of some Zimbabwean minds.Because of donor funding, too many politicians (naturally more...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:02hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Don't fall for sanctions denialists' lies and wiles
The worst-kept secret is out that the United States is determined to see the Zimbabwean government fall – just as it is doing in Venezuela. And denying that is like denying one's existence itself....Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 00:53hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Journalism needs overhaul
Zimbabwean journalist Haru Mutasa recently drew fire from some local journalists and social media couch potatoes - many of whom masquerade as experts on each and every issue - when she pointed out the...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:06hrs | 12 | by Conway Tutani
We need complete thinkers, not compartmentalised ones
What does it mean to be a "complete thinker"? Complete thinking entails connecting apparently disparate or unconnected ideas.To further elaborate, it means being able to take on a variety of i...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:47hrs | 2 | by Conway Tutani
It's most dangerous not to know where we are
It's self-evident that the situation in Zimbabwe is very much unsettled at the moment, but to go on to deconstruct it and reconstruct it to suit one's political narrative of the present is mendacious....Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:47hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Time to confront bloodsuckers wherever and whenever
THAT things could be on the verge of boiling over is not an overstatement, but for the "big boys" these are the best of times as they are making a killing.But it should be pointed out from the...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:39hrs | 2 | by Conway Tutani
Tsvangirai family’s pre-emptive masterstroke the way to go
The funeral service in December 2018 for the late 41st President of the United States, George H Bush, who was in office from 1989 to 1993 (not to be confused with his son, George W Bush, the 43rd Pres...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:23hrs | | by Conway Tutani
When politicians say things to make people angry, not to solve problems
Many of the people who appeared before the commission of inquiry into the events leading to the August 1 killings, the shootings themselves and then map the way forward, proved themselves to be invent...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 10:53hrs | 1 | by Conway Tutani
Let the games begin - it's now jecha for jecha!
THE call by some in the ruling Zanu-PF party for the presidential age limit to be raised to 52 years from 40 has caused mixed reactions, but what is there to it?It should first be accepted tha...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Conway Tutani
Daylight robbery of pricing at 4:1, but giving change at 1:1
As economic recovery measures are implemented, let's discuss this wrong mentality - yes, wrong - that nothing works until everything works because in real life there are no quick and easy fixes....Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 06:30hrs | 2 | by Conway Tutani
Don't be left holding an empty bag
WHAT has emerged from the hearings into the events of August 1 has shown that the setting-up of the commmission of inquiry was the right step in the circumstances.The hearings have amply demon...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 10:33hrs | 1 | by Conway Tutani
The Manyeruke, Komichi horror show
The commission of inquiry into the August 1 shooting of six people to death during a violent demonstration in Harare has its work cut out.But, looking at its composition, it is up to the task ...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 05:46hrs | 1 | by Conway Tutani i
Zimbabweans' lives are not bargaining chips
TRUE to the base instinct of human nature - that subconscious urge or behaviour directed by primeval, animalistic, self-serving, and/or ignoble motivations - some people have quickly rushed to complet...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Conway Tutani
Supporting Mnangagwa without backing Zanu PF, backing MDC without supporting Chamisa
"Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator," observed a sage.I am not into political prophecy, but this week last year - precisely November 6, 2017, the day then President Robert Mugabe s...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:17hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Strive Masiyiwa never ceases to shame the devil
Strive Masiyiwa, the Econet Wireless founder, has always been his own man.With all his wealth, Masiyiwa does not get ahead of himself. His public persona is that of gentility — that social s...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 06:12hrs | 3 | by Conway Tutani
Let's not indulge obstructionists
The more I see some categories of people who are stridently and rabidly opposing Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's economic stabilisation programme - as opposed to those offering measured and constructi...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Conway Tutani
Some Zimbabweans have poisoned themselves with spit
THE more one reads some reactions to the current upheavals in the economy, the more one sees that some people have poisoned themselves with spite.It's not only me who has observed that. Level-...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:17hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Nothing wrong in principle with 2% electronic transfer tax
"In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes," observed presciently Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), one of the founding fathers of the United States, who was both a philoma...Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 09:14hrs | 3 | by Conway Tutani
Anyone still denying Zimbabwe is open for business?
Some people have to sharpen their lying skills, failing which they have to stop lying altogether.Last week, I had an encounter with one such less than skilful liar — a former opposition MDC ...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Conway Tutani
Mthuli Ncube's '0% political skills' certainly working
While cholera is highly infectious, positivity can be as contagious too as a counter-measure along with medicinally treating the actual disease.Posted Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, who has a ...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:05hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Who is worse between manipulating politician and gullible follower?
AFTER the unnecessarily contentious elections, Zimbabwe could be about to reset and, thus, reboot itself on its journey from dysfunctionality to functionality.I say unnecessarily contentious b...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Zimbabwe not white man's burden
We are on the edge of an epoch in Zimbabwe.The nation could experience a new normal, so to speak, as the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has only a matter of days to validate President-elect E...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:21hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Zimbabwe must be the winner
For every winner there has to be a loser.But the more closely I look at Zanu-PF and MDC Alliance, the less I see differences in style and substance between them, with mere days before the elec...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 08:21hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Mugabe's resignation as voluntary as it could be
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has finally settled the matter of former President Robert Mugabe's departure by ruling in his chambers at the Constitutional Court that Mugabe resigned voluntarily last year....Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:47hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Can MDC Alliance point finger at Zec?
THERE is a time to set the record straight so that repeated lies about anyone and anything do not begin to sound like the truth.Fellow Zimbabwean Brighton Musonza posted this on social media r...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Conway Tutani
Nobody wins spiteful wars
TWO separate news items from the past few days have been most instructive in their own way.The first was about MDC Alliance presidential spokesperson Nkululeko Sibanda walking into Herald Hous...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 08:01hrs | 2 | by Conway Nkumbuzo Tutani
Social media liars, you better get it straight, ask Chofamba Sithole
There is no better combination in a journalist than possessing both intelligence and objectivity in equal measure, particularly so in this knowledge-based world where information and misinformation is...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 17:21hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Chamisa's troubling relationship with the truth
I AM not an obsessive pursuer of anyone because I am not a serial stalker. Pursuing a serial liar does not make me a serial stalker, but I am forced - once again - to write about MDC-T leader, Nelson ...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 09:25hrs | 2 | by Conway Nkumbuzo Tutani
Chamisa's lies are eroding public trust
Albert Einstein once said: "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."Truth and trust are vital ing...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 13:21hrs | 4 | by Charles (student)
Why people like Chamisa lie when they don't need to
ON this eve of general elections, we cannot overlook the emerging unsettling pattern of behaviour being displayed by one of the presidential candidates: Nelson "Wamba dia Wamba" Chamisa (pictured)....Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:40hrs | 3 | by Conway Nkumbuzo Tutani
Chamisa, 'stop it'
IT'S quite pleasing to note that whenever the situation requires that Zimbabweans should speak their minds, most of the time they never fail to rise to the occasion.Politics has a tendency to ...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 09:07hrs | | by Conway Nkumbuzo Tutani
Voters mustn't give one party too much power
Just when we thought we had seen the worst of the MDC-T's internecine mayhem, which has even caused collateral damage outside the main opposition party itself, the party – in its wisdom or lack ther...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 06:09hrs | | by Conway Nkumbuzo Tutani
Tsvangirai was courage personified
"Some people are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them," wrote 16th Century English playwright William Shakespeare.Many people will agree that MDC-T lead...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 06:00hrs | 2 | by Conway Nkumbuzo Tutani
Morgan, primary elections - like a coalition - are a necessary evil
IT'S getting harder and harder to keep track of political developments in Zimbabwe.What with all the brouhaha going on every which way you look and at many levels? If you do not keep your eye ...Published: 28 Jul 2017 at 07:50hrs | | by Conway Tutani
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