Blessing Vava

Blessing Vava - September, 2, 2015 was a historic day. I joined hundreds of Zimbabwe music legend Thomas Mapfumo’s fans at OR Tambo International Airport, where the icon was due to touch down from his Oregon, USA base.
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Blessing Vava - It is alarming that the entire country is now pinning its hopes on one Nigerian tycoon, who promised to invest in power generation, cement and coal mining, among other deals we are told.
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe presented his first State Of The Nation Address since 2007, following massive job losses after a controversial Supreme Court ruling. Waza blogger, Blessing Ivan Vava, gives his views on the president's…
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By Blessing Vava The defeat of the opposition in the June 2013 elections was a huge setback in the struggle for democratic change in Zimbabwe.   The result not only left the opposition in disarray, but led to another split which…
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A ruling by Zimbabwe's Supreme Court has led to more than 20000 workers losing their jobs, according to worker's unions. In his inaugural blog for Waza, Blessing Ivan Vava interrogates the hypocrisy of the government's reaction. A…
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The election of Mmusi Maimane as the leader of South Africa’s biggest opposition party the Democratic Alliance (DA) was received with mixed feelings after his election as the first black leader, of the ‘assumedly’ white controlled party.
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The Afrobarometer/ Mass Public Opinion Institute of Zimbabwe report has sent tongues wagging and had been received with mixed feelings locally and abroad.
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The ZANU PF national congress is here, probably the last congress for ZANU PF’s first secretary Robert Mugabe. The much awaited congress which had been viewed by many as not just a congress, but a transitional congress (though not elective)…
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It is now almost a year since Zimbabwe went for polls on the 31st of July 2013 to choose a new government to run the affairs of the state for five years until the 2018 plebiscite. The ‘victory’ by ZANU PF and Mugabe was a major setback in…
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One of Africa’s greatest revolutionaries, the late Mozambican President Samora Machel, once said: “The liberation of women is not an act of charity but a fundamental precondition for the success of our revolution.”
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