Tinomudaishe Chinyoka

By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka When I started my social work training at the UZ of Sheffield, the lecturers decided that in our first week, we would be put into groups and assigned two novels per group, to read and then discuss. In my…
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By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka For the record, and to be clear so that those who disagree with me aren’t confused: I will be voting for President Mnangagwa in 2023. And, boy am I glad that he doesn’t get to originate the list of commissioners…
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By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka  Six years it has been since last l spoke of the children of hope, of how the birth of a child must mean hope that the future is guaranteed.  A lot and yet very little has changed,  and not much that Mangudya,…
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By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka It’s one of the ironies of life, that students almost always surpass their teachers. But we have never checked to see why this is, or if we have l have not read that paper. I just think it might be because of…
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By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka A long, long time ago when I was young, long before life started to prove that it made no sense, back when it was possible to think that things were so bad they could only get better, something happened that…
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By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka One of the best teachers l had, was my Grade 7 teacher, in Shurugwi where we lived briefly after leaving Mberengwa, the land of my fathers. The teacher hated me. With a passion. Not because of anything I had…
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By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka The English say the grass is always greener on the other side’. The Shona have their ‘chitsva chiri murutsoka’ saying for a reason: you should travel more. But the English turn around and say ‘there is no place…
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By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka There once was a television show that seemed to have all of Zimbabwe gripped in its hold: so much so that you knew that the conversations after it aired would be about the latest episode as those who watched…
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By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka That report is not about Zimbabwe. It is the latest Human Rights Report on Kenya. Kenya whose president was indicted by the ICC on very serious crimes relating to politically motivated violence. Kenya, whose…
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By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka There are those who will want to pontificate and argue until they are hoarse that there are no sanctions against Zimbabwe. That there exists only “targeted sanctions” against certain individuals. Or that there…
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