Shaun Matsheza

By Shaun Matsheza | Ilizwi263 | "A man finds a village dying of thirst, then digs a well. Soon after that he squats over it and defecates in it. Will you still thank him for discovering water?" - Mbonisi Zikhali I thought I was done…
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Imagine you are part of a scientific expedition, and you are lost somewhere in the jungle. You have lost your bearings, and you have to figure out what to do. There are various choices available to you as a team.
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I remember this one woman in the township, a friend of my sister’s, that everyone knew was HIV positive, though she never admitted it, understandably to escape the stigma that the disease carries. Yet, she was known to seek solitary time…
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Standing there at Nzvimbo, listening to them talk of indegenization and empowerment, one man had experienced an unpleasant flashback, recalling the events that had led him back to that desolate rural home with nothing but the clothes on his…
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My math teacher in High School, Mr B. N. Ncube (may his soul rest in peace), once told us an anecdote that I still find to be as funny and enlightening as I found it then. So the story goes that a farmer was tilling his land with his…
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Shaun Matsheza’s article is probably one of the most balanced I have read of late on this ever popular subject. It is a very well thought out piece indeed, and I will try not to rain on his parade.
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So, despite the many, and I daresay much more pressing, issues facing Zimbabwe at the moment, our public sphere is inundated with stories about the ‘men of the moment’, Emmanuel Makandiwa and Uebert Angel and their self-proclaimed…
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A woman from Bulawayo named Shantel Rusike was recently in court facing charges of ‘causing hatred, contempt or ridicule of the president’ because she sent an image depicting the president, Robert Mugabe, naked.
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