Tafi Mhaka

By Tafi Mhaka In the best or worst of circumstances, no matter who you are in life, death is never gentle on the soul or body: it never discriminates. This is how Tawanda Makamba reportedly surmised his young brother Zororo’s final…
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By Tafi Mhaka Back in 2000, as a teacher at Sagambe Secondary School in Honde Valley, I discovered that rural teachers struggled to survive on a month’s salary. So payday meant so much to everyone. Despite residing at their…
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By Tafi Mhaka On March 17, Malawi's President Peter Mutharika fired the country’s military commander, General Vincent Nundwe. This followed the president refusing to ratify changes to the electoral laws intended to facilitate a fresh…
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By Tafi Mhaka The simple act of casting my first vote for the MDC in June 2000, at Avonlea Primary School in Harare, went far beyond backing Trudy Stevenson's journey to parliament. I had a score to settle with Zanu-PF, and my defiant…
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By Tafi Mhaka If the 20 Principles for Reliable, Inclusive and Credible Elections in Zimbabwe, launched by the MDC on February 27 in Harare, are included in the planned Electoral Bill, Nelson Chamisa will certainly win the 2023…
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By Tafi Mhaka In a speech delivered on December 13 at the Zanu-PF National Conference in Goromonzi, President Emmerson Mnangagwa advised ruling party delegates to ignore MDC-A and ‘G-40’ naysayers, stating, “They will tweet and tweet…
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By Tafi Mhaka In as far as establishing strategic public positions and viable political relationships go, MDC-A president Nelson Chamisa has increasingly demonstrated a lack of strong, measured judgment. In June 2018, he very unwisely…
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By Tafi Mhaka But Chamisa remains unrelentingly defiant, and plans to a launch an appeal with the Constitutional Court against a ruling Zimbabwe’s highest court made in August 2018. The world’s moved on. Clearly, Chamisa hasn’t.…
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By Tafi Mhaka The Zengeza MP’s frustration, anger and rashness have ruffled Mnangagwa’s administration. In Sikhala, many Zanu-PF securocrats may see a dangerous adversary who is equal to the task of articulating our struggles. Many…
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By Tafi Mhaka I never found it instructive that one of my dad’s best friends hailed from Matabeleland. It wasn’t VaNleya’s ethnicity that I regularly appreciated on Saturday afternoons, but his liberal, dynamic and jovial character. Mr…
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