Opinion

For too long the world in general, and some Zimbabweans in particular, have been hoping against hope that South Africa would play a constructive role in bringing sanity back to the basket case of a country that has been run by the murderous…
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The recent spat between Mugabe and Prime Minister Tsvangirai has led to a host of false legal opinions being splashed without care and due legal analysis and discourse. The most absurd interpretation was the moronic gibberish muttered by…
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The failure of civil society, emergency of “civil capitalists “ and the slow death of the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe. It is so heart touching. The so called donor community, national and beyond should be sleeping and probably slowly…
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Why Biti did not use "talkative" for "loquacious" or "wordy" for "prolix" is a matter of Biti’s democratic right to choice, but Manheru must be wondering how a copycat of his style would choose to pretend to attack that which he so much…
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THE media circus surrounding X Factor contestant Gamuchirai Nhengu puts a spotlight on a number of issues which are the subject of this short commentary. We do not have the full facts and, therefore, we can only go on what the media have…
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It was always going to be a risk, the quest to engage in an honest and intellectual debate with Nathaniel Manheru. My article "It’s all about the Zanu-PF DNA" was an attempt to rebuff the venal contentions and unauthentic positions advanced…
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After reading the statement by Tsvangirai on Mugabe’s stubborn disregard of goodwill in the GNU I felt angry. I felt like taking my catapult and running to Munhumutapa Building. Last time I had this feeling was when we laid to rest Lameck…
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We should all understand that her mum's Visa problems have been simmering for a while and I am sure it's been lurking at the back of her mum's mind what her daughter's participation in the X-Factor could bring towards the family apart from…
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Never mind the big society. What about the just society? The most important issue dividing Britain this week was not about child benefits but adult benefits and whether Cheryl Cole was right to axe Gamu Nhengu from The X Factor writes…
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It's hard to think of a more suprising story than that of Gamu Nhengu. Hers is fairy tale with a modern-day twist; a family fleeing tyranny in Zimbabwe, and a girl who seemed a hair's breadth from X Factor-style fame and fortune, only to…
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