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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 | 105 | 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 | 32 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 4 | 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 | 13 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 5 | 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 | 3 | 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

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 | 9 | 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 | 8 | 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 | 5 | 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 | 8 | 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

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 | 4 | by Zifiso Masiye

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