There has been a lot read into the announcement that several political parties had banded together to stand up against Robert Mugabe’s insistence on holding elections in July. Already, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is dreaming about a united front at the polls.
Ncube is the reason we should have elections soon; we need to get rid of such unthankful loud mouths. With misguided self importance, Ncube declared that he would not form a coalition with the bigger MDC; he plays macho man yet he knows he needs the mainstream MDC more than they need him writes Tanonoka Joseph Whande.
It is very disturbing how ZANU-PF cowers victims of its violence and political intransigence. Since independence, I have noticed spouses of fallen heroes getting on with their lives without any idea of how their husbands or wives died writes Tanonoka Joseph Whande.
Let us pray…..But, please, do not dare to close your eyes; this will disadvantage you in prayer because ZANU-PF thugs, thieves and murderers, with their president from 1980 and Jabulani Sibanda in the lead, are about writes Tanonoka Joseph Whande.
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.
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.
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.
