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Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka

Luke-ing the Beast in the Eye: Zimbabweans must now streetify their anger

Jul 15, 2020 29,979

By Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka As the regime frets and quacks in its boots over national murmurs for action on July 31, Zimbabweans must not be threatened out of their Constitutional right to peacefully streetify their anger at a clueless…
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Luke-ing the Beast in the Eye: Africa and the world have let Zimbabweans down

May 18, 2020 25,543

By Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka It is an indictment against this illegitimate regime that it could allow State-paid merchants of violence to abuse defenseless women a mere four days after Mothers’ Day; that day when the chastity of…
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Luke-ing the Beast in the Eye: JOC GOES FOR BROKE … as regime frets over Action

May 1, 2020 27,805

By Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka The Joint Operations Command has resolved to implement an elaborate scorched earth policy to stem the very real prospects of Zimbabweans pouring into the streets to express their displeasure over the…
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Luke-ing the Beast in the Eye: Covid-19 exposes the fallacy of sovereignty

Apr 24, 2020 17,292

By Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka The thin veil of national sovereignty continues to be exposed as a vacuous principle by natural disasters and global epidemics that are sending out the loud and unambiguous message that the world has simply…
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Luke-ing the Beast in the Eye: Of indoors 40th birthday celebrations and locked down livelihoods

Apr 17, 2020 29,469

By Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka We are shackled. And this has been the hallmark of our lives for the past 40 years. Tomorrow's lockdown independence celebrations are a graphic of not tragic illustration of our four decades of national…
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Luke-ing the Beast in the Eye: Of 30 pieces of silver, a locked-down Covid-19 judgement and the call…

Apr 3, 2020 127,865

By Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka It's strange what man can do for 30 pieces of silver. Even Judas Iscariot sold out for money. But what has especially come as a shock to me is that I never knew Morgen Komichi would so easily betray…
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Luke Tamborinyoka: Exclusionary facility of shame a crude form of apartheid

Mar 27, 2020 40,072

By Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka ZANU PF has created an exclusionary, elitist Covid-19 facility of shame that treats only senior government officials as well as the well-heeled and the politically connected while everyone else must die.…
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Luke-ing the Beast in the Eye: My three months in the belly of the Beast

Mar 27, 2020 29,021

By Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka Memory is a site of the struggle. Tomorrow, 28 March 2020, marks exactly 13 years after the first of my two stints in the D-class section of one of Zimbabwe’s notorious prisons. For me, it has been a…
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Luke-ing the Beast in the Eye: Zanu PF’s motto: We defy what we decree

Mar 20, 2020 17,430

By Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka Speaking with a forked tongue is an English phrase that could have had a serpentine origin in the form of the biblical snake that deceived Eve in the Garden of Eden. The phrase broadly refers to…
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Luke-ing the Beast in the Eye: The Presidency is a strait-jacket: No to dry parody

Mar 13, 2020 9,773

By Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka Today is Friday the 13th, that day again! It is generally referred to as an unlucky day and the fear of the number 13 has been given a scientific name, triskaidekaphobia. In keeping with the…
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