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Nathaniel Manheru resurfaces as Igomombe?

DEAR reader, we regaled each other leisurely under the eaves last week. But it can't be play, play, play forever. We have to get down to the business of interpreting our times, what with so much happening, and even so much more awaited. So…

Published: 15 May 2018 at 16:23hrs | 4 | by Igomombe

Manheru is back with Mnangagwa's 100 Days: Defying Horace's Burden

In one of his mature Odes, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, better known in the English-speaking world as Horace, coined the famous "delicta maiorum immeritus lues".Now sounding pedantic and obscure in a world where Latin is decidedly dead both a…

Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:20hrs | 1 | by George Charamba

Tsvangirai clothed in borrowed robes and forgot to think beyond slogans

IT'S been many seasons ever since this column was launched, more accurately ever since I adopted it from its "tired" founder, Professor Jonathan Moyo. While I know Nathaniel to be his middle name, I will not hazard a guess on why he surnam…

Published: 24 Jun 2017 at 13:29hrs | 52 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Zimbabwe media split into rival camps that parallel various political divides

I don't know what triggered it, but I just woke up craving for hard-reading stuff. Deep and tough reading. If happens quite often, especially when you suffer a surfeit of the mundane, the everyday, when everything looks unvaryingly matter-…

Published: 10 Jun 2017 at 17:01hrs | 4 | by Nathaniel Manheru

ANC the toddler

AM I wrong? I have always thought the goal of opposition is to govern? And I haven't said the goal is to lead. To govern. You can lead anything, at any level, including leading a village co-operative. Or Zinatha. But the goal of being in o…

Published: 03 Jun 2017 at 11:08hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru

This nonsense about Mthwakazi is just that - flatulent nonsense

ONE quote which high school history pupils in this country spout out with remarkable ease is one attributed to Otto von Bismarck, the German aristocrat and leader who is credited with the unification of Germany on the back of Prussia, then…

Published: 14 May 2017 at 14:50hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru

Bishop Lazarus, Manheru, Sharp Shooter afraid of change

The Sunday Mail never fails to surprise and annoy me about its viciousness and malice against anyone who opposes the failed Robert Mugabe and his corrupt system. Now that we are getting close to the 2018 election, the Sunday Mail pseudo na…

Published: 28 Mar 2017 at 11:04hrs | 1 | by Zanda Shumba

Around claims of a dying Zanu-PF

One question many of my readers pose and even criticise me for is taking contrary thoughts too seriously. I fully understand where my readers are coming from. We have become a virtual community of opinion, creating that sense of becoming a…

Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 07:23hrs | 3 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Pseudo-Reformists: When Beasts of England Roar

A cryptic but interesting response to my piece last week came from one "yowe" who advised me to read George Orwell's classic, Animal Farm. I can only surmise that "yowe" is unaware that literature, English literature especially, is my fort…

Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru

When Mugabe goes to Matobo . . .

When Mugabe goes to Matopos(Hayi mani bakithi(!) - MATOBO!!!)- goes to Matobo, Matombo:place of stubborn boulders,the land's mute womb that won't saywhat it has eaten, seen, or carries.When Mugabe goes to Matobo,I ask, ONLY ASK, this of hi…

Published: 25 Feb 2017 at 09:00hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru

It's the Zimdollar, stupid!

Gentle reader, I think it is a sheer waste of national time to focus on the collapse of ZimPF, spectacular though that may be. There was nothing unexpected about ZimPF's dramatic finale, especially for you who have been reading this column…

Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 20:52hrs | 6 | by Nathaniel Manheru

As the Twitter Professora would say, handei tione!

IT has been a week of laughter and good political humour, not least because my party triumphed in Bikita West, but also because of the clotted reasoning and prose which this defeat wrought in losers. It is a bit unkind to continue to menti…

Published: 28 Jan 2017 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Jonathan Moyo stop dabbling in Zanu-PF succession politics

In history and to the outsider, Zimbabwe has always been a fabulous illusion. An Ophir. An El Dorado, a home to the Queen of Sheba. If the wishes of early European "pathfinders" were horses, Zimbabwe would have wound up a German colony, po…

Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 08:38hrs | 3 | by Nathaniel Manheru

MANHERU: When he advances uMthwakazi's restoration

When even Manheru himself can no longer stop advancing uMthwakazi's restorationist agenda, then it's game on Mthwakazi!In introducing uMthwakazi as a new and unfolding political force of our time â€“ not a benign, apolitical and apologetic…

Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 17:55hrs | 1 | by Xoxani Ngxoxo

When even Manheru himself can no longer stop advancing uMthwakazi's restorationist agenda, then it's game on Mthwakazi!

In introducing uMthwakazi as a new and unfolding political force of our time - not a benign, apolitical and apologetic social reference it had been to that stage - uMTHWAKAZI, the political movement that spearheaded that new call, made two…

Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 17:06hrs | 1 | by Xoxani Ngxoxo

Bond notes: When mere depositors debate

An interview Donald Trump is alleged to have had with People Magazine in 1998 quoted him as saying: "If I were to run [for US presidency], I'd run as a Republican. They're the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything o…

Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 15:49hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru

We are not South Africans

Denial or deceit: these are the two dominant impulses between which vexed life hovers. And vexations come both by way of agonising expectations, or by way of deep fears, especially fears of hazards one would rather not acknowledge.Looking …

Published: 29 Oct 2016 at 16:26hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Manheru attacks Nomazulu Thata

One Nomazulu Thata - that angry Zimbabwean beauty whose headgear leaves me breathless - is not too pleased with my snide comments on the sitting arrangement of Joice Mujuru, the leader of Zimbabwe People First. She called my last instalmen…

Published: 22 Oct 2016 at 10:35hrs | 3 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Mujuru's impending trip to Chatham House where she hopes to impress her British benefactors

THE Tongas have a good saying: Hearts are not far from concord when noses have already fraternised. Let me open my gonamombe, pull out the lid of the cow-horn canister, so you the reader and me, can share the snuff by which we summon our a…

Published: 17 Sep 2016 at 12:29hrs | 8 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Imagine a rat dreaming making love to a cat!

This week I enjoyed two statements sure to enrich the national stock of political sayings. The first one came from Kudzai Chipanga, the de facto leader of the Youth Wing of the ruling party, Zanu-PF. Addressing his peers in the Youth Wing,…

Published: 03 Sep 2016 at 09:38hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru

To Decide is to Govern!

I have made a pledge to you my readers. A pledge I will always endeavour to fulfil for as long as I write. That pledge is to raise difficult questions, break taboos, speak and spill the truth, so this society confronts its warts. And its w…

Published: 27 Aug 2016 at 07:51hrs | 9 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Zimbabwe: The French connection

Well, like I indicated last week, the pilferage of the uumph of civil servants demonstrations by some externally glamorised fringe political upstarts last week was bound be exposed in the failed lockdown call this week. Simply, these upsta…

Published: 16 Jul 2016 at 07:50hrs | 4 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Zimbabwe: Not in a thousand years!

Let's start with a series of small, light-hearted but revealing anecdotes. Beitbridge. I am told there was quite some build-up of tension on both sides of the bridge, which means a build-up from South Africa and from Zimbabwe. The business…

Published: 02 Jul 2016 at 12:01hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Tsvangi-xit moment?

Our media pundits are at it again, misleading us into thinking that local opposition organisations are about to find each other, hopefully to form what might be called a party to challenge Zanu-PF. The euphoria over Joice Mujuru's small ra…

Published: 25 Jun 2016 at 09:11hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru

Grand Coalition: Cdes without a Code

No sooner have they come together than they had forgotten the code that brought them together. That is the story of our opposition, and their famed grand coalition that was hyped to tediousness by the media. Then the People First was an id…

Published: 04 Jun 2016 at 09:07hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Million Man March: So hard a fact, so harder to accept

BACK in the 1970s, marriage took the form of musical rivalry that pitted families of the bride and the groom. Each side composed songs that exalted the qualities of their side - both real and imagined - while heaping execrable qualities on…

Published: 28 May 2016 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru

When a Nation lacks self-belief

I AM conflicted. I would have wanted to deal with David Coltart's book or, better still, deal with the whole debate around bond notes, both of them quite urgent and substantive. But I find myself having to deal with a matter that by now sh…

Published: 14 May 2016 at 09:16hrs | 3 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Coltart: (Hi)story and our story as Africans

As I sit down to write this piece, it is February 18, 1978, and David Coltart has just taken off for South Africa, to start his university studies at UCT, the University of Cape Town. He leaves behind Rhodesia, still burning, his Ngundu po…

Published: 07 May 2016 at 20:11hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Zimbabwe: One side black, the other side bright

I suppose it is called delayed sight. Last week I drew the ire of opposition MDC-T supporters when I raised the self-evident, dead-end scenario that comes with demonstrations, and the fleeting joy that comes with regaling inflated crowd nu…

Published: 23 Apr 2016 at 12:56hrs | 3 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Zimbabwe: Politics of Crowds

The generous ones put it at 10 000. The modest ones put it at 2 000. The niggard ones put it at 800. And all claimed to be reading from the same crowd which the MDC-T is alleged to have mustered in the wake of a court ruling favouring the …

Published: 16 Apr 2016 at 11:26hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru

US: Country without a skin

I HAVE always been struck by how local sayings often betray an advanced scientific sensibility traceable to our so-called 'non-scientific' forebears. All this against rooted allegations of pre-scientific living, a myth cultivated and nouri…

Published: 12 Mar 2016 at 15:18hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Holding Tsvangirai up to ridicule

Give it to our African heritage. You don't go very far in search of a proverb appropriate to express strange happenings in your neighbourhood. Our forefathers will have something for you, itself an indication of the expansive experience th…

Published: 16 Jan 2016 at 15:54hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru

Tendai Biti, a very small man masquerading as leader of a political party

As I write this piece, I am reminded of one Dennis Brutus and his "Gore'e". "Gore'e" is a poem about an island off Senegal by that name, an island from where Africans were loaded into ships for slavery in various parts of the world, includ…

Published: 05 Dec 2015 at 07:36hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Nathaniel Manheru an assassin with a pen

Dear Mr. Manheru,I AM writing this letter not to discourage you from sharing your insights and ideas on what Zimbabwe needs to do to lift itself up but to put across another perspective that can possibly assist those who wish to better und…

Published: 08 Nov 2015 at 09:48hrs | | by Mutumwa Mawere

Zimbabwe police: Old wine in new bottle-skins

I SEEK reader indulgence in breaking a promise I made last week. I had committed this column to a follow-up article on the wider pointers beyond the media issues I dealt with. Little did I know that new developments would occur, developmen…

Published: 07 Nov 2015 at 07:23hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru

Supper that smells too doggy

Zimbabwe: Assassins without gunsOctober 31, 2015 Shingirai Huni Features, Opinion & Analysis, Headlines, Nathaniel ManheruJoram NyathiNathaniel ManheruI will part with tradition and dedicate this piece to Joram Nyathi, deputy editor of…

Published: 31 Oct 2015 at 10:53hrs | 4 | by Nathaniel Manheru

What makes Robert Mugabe rattle his enemies so unfailingly?

What is it that makes Robert Mugabe rattle his enemies so unfailingly? Even when he does nothing at all?We have been having a big debate on the local media, more accurately, on a portion of it. I notice the same debate is raging in South A…

Published: 26 Oct 2015 at 05:59hrs | 4 | by Nathaniel Manheru

AfriForum challenge is less about Zimbabwe but more about South African and Namibian land reform

LAST week I promised to tackle the issue of the sale by auction of a property of the Zimbabwe Government in Cape Town, over a court action involving AfriForum, a white legal outfit defending colonial property rights in the whole of the Sou…

Published: 04 Oct 2015 at 09:28hrs | 14 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Mujuru's non-existent party

The beauty about an argument that has an encompassing, hard-to-fault, premise is that its detractors end up validating it, fortifying it. Responses to my instalment on the People First project last week, left me feeling more or less vindic…

Published: 26 Sep 2015 at 16:38hrs | 5 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Mugabe quakes in his boots, we are told

IT has been an eventful week, quite eventful. On my way home last Saturday, I ran into an everlasting convoy of MDC-T supporters. Their vehicular beeline pointed beyond, passing through and past Chivhu. The journey source, as I was later t…

Published: 19 Sep 2015 at 11:24hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Nelson Chamisa's dreadful mistake, 6000 workers fired

CAN someone tell me, just who is threatened by the First Lady hitting 50 years of age? Or by her celebrating that age? Or by the fact of taking advantage of that occurrence to fund-raise for charity? In raising these questions I am prompte…

Published: 25 Jul 2015 at 10:25hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Baboon with the smell of a white man

YOU cannot help but admire American choreography. At the start of this month they had a hearing on Zimbabwe, itself an opportunity for demonstrating how much they stand in loco parentis to all of us the lesser beings. And then you have mor…

Published: 27 Jun 2015 at 20:11hrs | 3 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Mujuru fluffing chances through prevarication, by being slow, cautious and unsure

THE OTHER SIDE Of course David Cameron has won, confounding and consigning the overweening Milliband, and worse, condemning those damn God's deputies, those notorious pollsters! I never knew that these seers can be that off the mark? Where…

Published: 09 May 2015 at 18:14hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru

When the bitch is back in heat!

I WILL share this one with you my reader. After all, my performance in the past weeks has been culpably erratic.So this other day a friend taps my shoulder, a sure sign aida kundibatisa (to confide). I demurred and this is what followed. P…

Published: 21 Mar 2015 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Rendering Mujuru superfluous

I AM reading a book under the Oppenheimer series, a book on Thomas Leask's diary entries covering his travels in Botswana and Zimbabwe, travels undertaken between 1865 and 1870.Like Livingstone, Leask was a Scott, every inch an adventurer …

Published: 07 Mar 2015 at 15:02hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru

A quick response to Manheru and Mphoko

The recent utterances by the new vice president of Zimbabwe P Mphoko and the shadowy   character Manheru (Herald and government owned newspaper columnist) over the Gukurahundi atrocities make some disturbing reading however the r…

Published: 19 Feb 2015 at 16:05hrs | | by Gukurahundi scholar

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 heroines of the struggle, orphans and the ma…

Published: 25 Jan 2015 at 11:32hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Manheru's defiance now boring and getting dull

Nathaniel Manheru your defiance is now very boring and getting dull. I think the more you are blessed with responses to your gross thinking is the more you feel encouraged to inflict pain on the hearts of the Gukurahundi victims you seem t…

Published: 10 Jan 2015 at 09:57hrs | | by Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo

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 Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana.In his recent disrespectful articles he had challeng…

Published: 06 Jan 2015 at 13:41hrs | 1 | by Thulani Nkala

That awkward moment of reading through a Nathaniel Manheru 'short story'!

I have to be begin by issuing an apology to all dear readers of the online news publications that my first article of the year 2015 has to be of significant reference to one extremely funny character masked as Nathaniel Manheru. I almost m…

Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 10:51hrs | 2 | by Fbr. Mthokozisi Ndiweni

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