By Tanonoka Joseph Whande
After independence, the people of Zimbabwe noted with concern, shock and dismay the systematic entrenchment of dictatorial tendencies, personified by the President...
By Tanonoka Joseph Whande
The world over, flags are reminders and symbols of their nations’ importance and uniqueness. Flags, with National Anthems, accompany their Heads of State...
By Tanonoka Joseph Whande
But they are all the same. The whole lot of them.
I am depressed.
The current political scene in Zimbabwe is chaotic, obscene and...
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.
