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Tsvangirai not Mugabe strangled student politics: Response to Alex Magaisa

By Malvern Mkudu Inspired by the #FeesMustFall demonstrations that have engulfed South African Universities, debate has been raging in Zimbabwe on why the university students in the country cannot emulate their peers south of the Limpopo. Many have been joking that if this happened in Zimbabwe, the state would respond with a heavy hand and […]

Oct 28, 2015 Read more

How Mugabe strangled the students’ movement in Zimbabwe (Part 2)

This is the second part in a series that analyses how the students’ movement in Zimbabwe was emasculated by President Robert Mugabe’s Government.

Oct 28, 2015 Read more

How Mugabe strangled the students’ movement in Zimbabwe (Part 1)

By Alex T. Magaisa People who don’t read their history are bound to forget it or to repeat its mistakes. They also tend to be overawed by events elsewhere, believing them to be new, when in fact, they are not. The latter, especially, has been apparent in the last couple of weeks as events at […]

Oct 26, 2015 Read more