Luke Tamborinyoka

By Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka While Africa remains our beloved home, some of us are pained by the persistent horror tale of disputed elections across SADC and the rest of Africa as well as State-sanctioned excesses against innocent…
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By Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka Today is Tuesday 21 November 2023. Exactly six years ago to the day on yet another Tuesday, 21 November 2017, former strongman Robert Mugabe was forced to resign in a popular military coup. Amid the…
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By Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka It was with a heavy heart that we all learnt early this week that the missing Bishop, Tapfumaneyi Masaya had been found dead; callously murdered by the known lot in Zimbabwe who have a strange and morbid…
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By Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka The regime in Zimbabwe has always frequently and emphatically shouted about our status as a sovereign State. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that because sovereignty is a recognised principle in…
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By Luke Tamborinyoka Serving Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander Philip Valerio Sibanda who was controversially and unconstitutionally appointed ex-officio member of the Zanu PF politburo, is being lined up for succession. As…
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By Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka Today is Monday, 30 October 2023. Exactly 18 years ago to the day, on Sunday, 30 October 2005, my beloved mother Pelagia Gombera, nee Makumbe, passed on. By nature, I have always been a highly…
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By Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka I have borrowed the title for this week’s piece from the late Alex Tawanda Magaisa, a friend, colleague and former workmate in the then Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Office. In one of his epic…
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By Luke Tamborinyoka "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet?' These were the words from renowned English playwright William Shakespeare that he wrote in a famous line in the play…
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By Luke Tamborinyoka It has been fake-ness galore --- a fake election, a fake secretary general, a fake letter and fake recalls. All happening in a country with a fake and illegitimate President. The latest shameful epidemic of…
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By Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka As ED begins what he presumes to be his last term of office on the back of a stolen election, all indications point to a determined "lootocrat" lining up his family, cronies and allies for a "last supper"…
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