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'Bona - Mnangagwa fight over Mugabe's dead body to get nasty'
South African based academic Dinizulu Macaphulana (real name Dr. William Mpofu) has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa that the spirited fight to have the late President Robert Mugabe's corpse ...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 13:42hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mujuru killed in a ritual occultic sacrifice'
The former Zimbabwe Army General Solomon Mujuru was killed in a ritual sacrifice, political analyst Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana has sensationally claimed. Mujuru died in a fire in the ear...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 11:54hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa and the cult of mediocrity in Zimbabwe politics
ZIMBABWE has finally arrived at its Idi Amin moment in history.This is a moment where the vulgar, obscene and grotesque performances of leaders get tragically normalised. It is a true "gods mu...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Macaphulana
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...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 19:03hrs | | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
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...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 19:02hrs | 2 | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
Restoration of a bloody legacy
WHEN it comes to such watershed elections and contestations for power as the first post-Mugabe vote that Zimbabwe is about to experience, politicians and political systems are known to resort to their...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 15:29hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbiko Macaphulana
UK in Zimbabwe: From tragedy to farce
A poetic cliché by Karl Marx which claims that in the life of nations "history repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce" does not only keep gaining new meanings for all countries but at ...Published: 28 May 2018 at 16:05hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Mnangagwa: The bloody end of crocodile politics
Concealed to many of us is that the real misfortunes of a true crocodile pursue Emmerson Mnangagwa and the politics that he represents. The crocodile tears over corruption and crime in Zimbabwe that h...Published: 19 Dec 2017 at 15:16hrs | 4 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Yes. It's a coup, a genocidal political cleansing
Yes. It is a coup. Not against but about Robert Mugabe and his power. More than that it is a genocidal political cleansing. A political faction in the ruling party, a faction that cannot win a war of ...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 13:27hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Mnangagwa and the theft of history
IT is with indecent haste that Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has of late been seeking to flag his increasingly questionable presidential credentials and ambitions before Zimbabwe and the world. Th...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 06:21hrs | 3 | by Dinizulu Macaphulana
Mnangagwa is in Pretoria
Sources say Mnangagwa is in South Africa. Police in Mutare have leaked a radio communication which confirms that they were on Tuesday ordered to stop him leaving the country for Mozambique.The...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 08:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in the Theopolitics of the Future
At one level Zimbabwe has finally hit its true Dickensian political and historical moment. That moment is "the spring of hope" and at the same time "the winter of despair." Zimbabweans have everything...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 18:26hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Grace Mugabe fears attacks and the assassination of her children?
IN the August of the year of Our Lord two important politicians found themselves in South Africa facing two different but equally grave protocols.One faced serious medical protocols after inge...Published: 22 Aug 2017 at 14:00hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Reptiles and Eagles in High Noon
In the August of the year of Our Lord two important politicians found themselves in South Africa facing two different but equally grave protocols. One faced serious medical protocols after ingesting a...Published: 20 Aug 2017 at 17:23hrs | 26 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Robert Mugabe the physical man naturally retreats
PERHAPS we must do that; abandon the "Him" and deal with the "It". We must leave the man and engage with the phenomenon. There are many profits in the present for reading and understanding Robert Muga...Published: 04 Aug 2017 at 13:00hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwe: Season of the MOU and the end of Political Innocence
Perhaps we must do that. Abandon the "Him" and deal with the "It." We must leave the man and engage with the phenomenon. There are many profits in the present for reading and understanding Robert Muga...Published: 04 May 2017 at 17:27hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwe, SA to document undocumented Gukurahundi victims
Cde Dinizulu Mbiko Macaphulana suggested in the morning that, I should ask Minister Chombo, the Zimbabwean Minister of Home Affairs about what his government is doing to document victims of Gukurahund...Published: 25 Mar 2017 at 19:48hrs | | by Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena
'Trump snubs Mugabe'
US President Donald Trump's phone call to South Africa President Jacob Zuma highlights neighbouring Zimbabwe's high political risk and that Washington does not consider President Robert Mugabe a s...Published: 19 Feb 2017 at 10:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's sauntering political mediocrity
The opening of the New Year - and we are just 11 days into it - is often marked by people of all shades and hue pontificating and divining about the moons and year ahead.Whereas in the pas...Published: 11 Jan 2017 at 05:33hrs | | by zimpapers
Zimbabwe: 2017 the Year of the Monster
It was a stern Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Minister of State Security, who looked at Ken Flower in the eye told him that Robert Mugabe, "the Prime Minister wishes you to know that the Commissioner of Poli...Published: 30 Dec 2016 at 16:08hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Ndebele Kingdom! Never impose it on all of us
There should be a referendum that will determine if the entire people of Mathebeleland are agreeable to the restoration of Ndebele Kingdom. It is not advisable to impose a Kingdom on the diverse peopl...Published: 11 Sep 2016 at 12:55hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Dangers of Zimbabwe's politicism & egopolitics
THE spirited search for Lucifer and other expelled angels has taken Zimbabweans so many years and cost them many lives and lots of spirit, energy and property. The Zimbabwean economy and polity ha...Published: 31 Aug 2016 at 09:00hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
'I'm not a CIO,' says Pastor Mawarire
After giving the voiceless a voice and hope to millions of Zimbabweans reeling from a depressed economy, Pastor Evan Mawarire of the popular #ThisFlag campaign last week quietly left Zimbabwe for ...Published: 20 Jul 2016 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: The Dangers of Politicism and Egopolitics
The spirited search for Lucifer and other expelled angels has taken Zimbabweans so many years. And cost them many lives and lots of spirit, energy and property. The Zimbabwean economy and polity have ...Published: 06 Jul 2016 at 16:27hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Tsvangirai succession battle hots up
MOVEMENT for Democratic Change (MDC-T) leader, Morgan Tsvangirai is under immense pressure to step down immediately following his public disclosure that he is suffering from the cancer of the colony....Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe: Power and allure of the libidinal economy
In these last days of Robert Mugabe, to think of the Zimbabwean polity and economy is to confront crises, disasters and calamities. What is visible to even the uncircumcised is the crushing cash crunc...Published: 12 Jun 2016 at 16:31hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Robert Mugabe: The Head of State and State of the Head
At this late hour in the long day of Zimbabwean politics; the true Robert Mugabe is standing up to be seen. So many who are close to him; and have been for decades; are getting to know the man from hi...Published: 25 Feb 2016 at 16:29hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zanu-PF factionalism and the war inside Mugabe
Something big that we don't readily see is happening in Zanu-PF and to Zanu-PF. When the politburo met on February 10, amidst a strong crowd outside the Zanu-PF headquarters, the world expected politi...Published: 14 Feb 2016 at 11:08hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwe: A History of the Future
If in the present world there was no propaganda and no war, politics would not be seen and experienced as a very dirty game. The telling of lies as truth, marketing of myths as reality and the shootin...Published: 13 Dec 2015 at 19:50hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Macaphulana-Cross 'crash doctrine' - Failure of opposition
On October 21, opposition MDC-T official, Eddie Cross, wrote a piece on his blog that was so fraught with imagined danger that this country is facing so much so that he even felt compelled to put a ca...Published: 21 Nov 2015 at 07:11hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Zimbabwe Otherwise
From the outside Zimbabwe is a true object of political and intellectual tourism, somewhere to explore and experience but never really dwell in. This country is also politically p.ornographic, well un...Published: 15 Nov 2015 at 17:35hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwe: Let us say Grace
At the expensive risk of being a hyperbolist, I argue that Zimbabwe is presently a political disaster that is impatiently waiting to happen. Anything can go wrong. Robert Mugabe, the old man, ha...Published: 10 Oct 2015 at 21:48hrs | 2 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwean politics in underwear moments
In the opinion of philosophers, Man the angriest and the saddest of all animals invented laughter to cushion himself from the pains of the universe. Man has invented gods, music, dancing and beer...Published: 10 Aug 2015 at 14:02hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwean politics in underwear moments
In the opinion of philosophers, Man the angriest and the saddest of all animals invented laughter to cushion himself from the pains of the universe. Man has invented gods, music, dancing and beer to ...Published: 10 Aug 2015 at 13:30hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
RSA Violence: Beware the Clash of Civilisations
The poor on poor, and black on black violence that is presently spreading out in South Africa must jolt all of us in the thinking world to some thinking about our thinking in politics. In the tru...Published: 21 Apr 2015 at 08:25hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Dignity in resistance
"CAN we think Zimbabwe out of this? Yes. If we abandon bigotry and bigots as a nation we can study and think Zimbabwe out of her present conflictual political condition that is seeing heroes and heroi...Published: 25 Jan 2015 at 11:32hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zimbabwe: Memory, Knowledge and the difficult Future
Sometime in a lonely day in 1749, a small scale thinker with a taste for music and a reputation for familial irresponsibility was walking on a foot path in a village a few miles from Paris in France. ...Published: 19 Jan 2015 at 14:30hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Manheru hits out at Dinizulu Mbiko Macaphulana
---One Jethro Mpofu, "hero" of Radio Dialogue---My interest at this stage is in keeping the debate focused by pruning out charlatans donning academic garb in the hope of extorting a listenersh...Published: 10 Jan 2015 at 09:46hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Gukurahundi graves should be turned into monuments and shrines
Following the Gukurahundi invasion and genocide in Matabeleland and parts of Midlands over twenty years ago victims and surviving victims of Gukurahundi genocide have not received any form of restora...Published: 08 Jan 2015 at 16:22hrs | 1 | by Themba Mthethwa
Manheru taken back to school
Nathaniel Manheru, the acerbic and vile Zanu-PF scribe who is believed to be George Charamba, was yesterday taken kicking and screaming back to school by ...Published: 06 Jan 2015 at 13:41hrs | | by Thulani Nkala
The trouble of Educating Robert Mugabe's Assassin
In recent days certain bold but infantile statements have been made that have caused some of us to reflect seriously on the problem of political silliness and historical idiocy in Zimbabwe. On the s...Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 21:49hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Robert Mugabe: An African Head of State and the State of an African Head
The political personality and historical project of Robert Mugabe is bound to arrest the attention of thinkers and writers for a long time to come. The Zimbabwean President has attracted extreme r...Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 10:27hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Phelekezela Mphoko's controversial past exposed
Although not many ordinary people know about the newly-nominated Zanu-PF vice-president, Phelekezela Mphoko, he has been in the news on a number of times - all for the wrong reasons.Mphoko was...Published: 12 Dec 2014 at 16:56hrs | | by Chris Gande
Mugabe survived palace coup with the help of Mujuru
President Robert Mugabe has been at the helm of Zanu-PF since 1976 - and next week's party congress is most likely to further cement his grip on power.Mugabe is a veteran of manipulation. ...Published: 01 Dec 2014 at 22:54hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe and his wife Grace are terrified people
An observant student of power and its effects, the late French philosopher Michel Foucault noted that "we are subjected to the production of truth through power" and that "we cannot exercise power exc...Published: 02 Nov 2014 at 19:43hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Inside Mugabe's sealed succession envelope: Fear, self assassinations and a coup
An observant student of power and its effects, the late French philosopher Michel Foucault noted that "we are subjected to the production of truth through power" and that "we cannot exercise powe...Published: 01 Nov 2014 at 08:36hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Grace preparing for life after Mugabe?
FROM a typist in the office of the president just over two decades ago, First Lady Grace Mugabe might be setting herself up as the kingmaker, or better still, the heir to the throne in an improbable t...Published: 10 Oct 2014 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Baba Jukwa and the goblin that went rogue
EDITOR: This is the last part of Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana's 'Grace Mugabe, Baba Jukwa and the Olympics of Power in Zimbabwe' article.I ARGUE th...Published: 07 Aug 2014 at 07:31hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Grace Mugabe, Baba Jukwa and the Olympics of Power in Zimbabwe
One stubborn theme that has arrested the attention of philosophers and poets from the childhood of humanity to the present era of technologised witchcraft is the theme of illusion and reality. Whe...Published: 05 Aug 2014 at 19:08hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Robert Mugabe, Power, and the Jonathan Moyo Effect in Zimbabwe
Contrary to prevalent opinion, Professor Jonathan Moyo's trouble with Robert Mugabe and some die-hard Zanu-PF old guards did not suddenly explode with Mugabe's tirade at the burial of Nathan Shamuyar...Published: 10 Jun 2014 at 16:24hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
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