Grace Kwinjeh

By Grace Kwinjeh I wrote a while back that chances of Emmerson Mnangwagwa’s name appearing on the ballot paper in the next harmonised elections in 2023 are very slim. Well, the first victim of his unbridled abuse of office and power, Susan Mutami has spoken. With courage and conviction Mutami explains how she was raped by Mnangagwa, then a minor under his care - just 15 years old. A chilling narration, that left Zimbabweans and the world shell-shocked. But, apparently there are more to come.

By Grace Kwinjeh King Léopold 11 never set a foot in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), but his daunting ghost still haunts the country and its neighbours today. A result of the enduring impact of the merciless genocidal plunder he presided over – in which millions of Congolese would be massacred. That small country, “petit pays” and small people “petites gens”, still bears heavy political responsibility for the trail of historical destruction, that has followed the King’s deeply entrenched political mischief in Africa. Writing his last letter to his wife Pauline, from Thysville prison, the first democratically elected Prime-Minister of the DRC, Patrice Lumumba, whose brutal assassination Belgium is still to take full responsibility, said: “the day will come when history will speak. But it will not be the history which will be taught in Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United Nations…Africa will write its own history and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity”. Indeed! A history of ‘glory’ and ‘dignity’ being told in Africa, but, in order to allow for closure and healing – exposing perpetrators, deniers and revisionists is key.

By Grace Kwinjeh The attacks against Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson, Advocate Fadzayi Mahere, are not only diabolic but very unfortunate. There is a background to this, in a deeply entrenched patriarchal society, in which powerful women who have a voice, suffer incredible attacks in order to cow them into silence. ‘kumupa size.’ Some men brag after attacking a female. In order to redirect attention, when losing an argument men turn to sexual objectification.

By Grace Kwinjeh “Privileges multiply and corruption triumphs…Today the vultures are too numerous and too voracious in proportion to the lean spoils of the national wealth. The party, a true instrument of power in the hands of the bourgeoisie, reinforces the machine, and ensures that the people are hemmed in and immobilised”. Frantz Fanon Emmerson Mnangagwa is engaged in a vigorous political combat, within Zanu PF and the nation at large, for relevance and power retention in the harmonised elections - scheduled for next year. That is if his name is to be printed on the ballot paper. Exposed, tragic leadership failure, Mnangagwa’s evil nature, knows no bounds, to a point that tormented and irate citizens have come to the cynically, vexing conclusion that - racist Ian Smith was better.

Grace Kwinjeh: "Moreblessing Ali is has been found dead. Her body was dumped in a well in Nyatsime. An eerie cloud of premeditated spitefulness has hovered ominously over the Ali family. The trauma is real and unimaginable, what her children are enduring, what she went through - the brutal manner she was murdered.