Tanonoka Joseph Whande

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Stupidity, desperation are enemies of common sense

By Tanonoka Joseph Whande Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-Pf is in as much a mess as Zimbabwe is – if we can separate one from the other,...

2018 elections – Tsvangirai’s last hooray

By Tanonoka Joseph Whande More and more African leaders are succumbing to pressure and are declaring that they will not be running in the next presidential...

Can Zimbabwe’s opposition really unite?

By Tanonoka Joseph Whande There seems to be a growing semblance of sanity among leaders of various political parties in Zimbabwe. One after the other, leaders...

No, Mr. Trump, media is not the enemy of the people

By Tanonoka Joseph Whande No African president or ‘third world dictator’ advised newly-minted US President Donald Trump about the perceived ‘evil’ lurking in newsrooms or behind...

With Zimbabwe’s 2018 elections, SADC may want to regain its credibility

By Tanonoka Joseph Whande The Gambia is today picking up the pieces after a dictator of 22 years was voted out by the people and...

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The uneasy peace: Grace Mugabe, Mnangagwa and the politics of controlled memory

At a recent public function, the opening of The Sprout Restaurant in Harare, we saw former First Lady Grace Mugabe moving within the same orbit as senior ZANU PF figures, her presence neither resisted nor theatrically embraced.

Who will drive the bus: Mamvura, General Chiwenga, or someone else? Will President Mnangagwa retire peacefully? (Part 2)

In this second and final part of the article, I continue to examine the potential outcomes of ZANU-PF’s succession politics, focusing on whether Kudakwashe Tagwirei (whom I metaphorically refer to as “Mamvura”) will succeed in his presumed bid for the presidency, whether General Constantino Chiwenga will recover his political standing and take over, whether someone else will ascend to the throne, and whether President Mnangagwa will ultimately retire in peace.

The gospel according to the herdsman: When the mooing stops, the clay cow is exposed

Rutendo Benson Matinyarare, long celebrated as the chief acoustics engineer of Zimbabwe’s most delicate economic sculpture, the ZiG—now appears to have discovered an inconvenient truth: even the most beautifully crafted clay cow cannot moo indefinitely without cracking.

Air Marshal Henry Muchena is right to stand with Zimbabweans

At a time when silence would be easier, Air Marshal (Retired) Henry Muchena has chosen principle over comfort and he is right to do so.