Tag Archive: Zimbabwe

Job Incapacitations and Strikes: The Personal vs the Collective

There are a number of strikes or ‘job actions’ that are being undertaken in Zimbabwe.  The most significant of these has been an over...

Robert Mugabe’s Legacy: A Conflicted One with Different Narratives

“The good men do is oft interred with their bones.” These were the words of Mark Antony from his emotional speech at Julius Caesar’s funeral....

Diary of a Student Leader: Mugabe is Dead but Mugabeism is Alive

An unfateful October night It was a hot October night in 2009 and my fellow student leaders and I were taking public transport home after...

SADC’s Newfound Radicalism: A False Assumption that the Future Reverts to Our Past

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has decided, probably by default, to become a little bit more assertive on the international global stage.  At...

Show Us the Money: The Changing Meaning of Cash in Zim

The minister of finance and economic development in Zimbabwe, Mthuli Ncube, as reported in the mainstream media, recently  confirmed that government will soon introduce...

Heroes Day 2019: Ideals Overcoming the Individual

Annually in August, Zimbabwe remembers its national liberation struggle heroes.  And it is the correct thing to do.  This, despite arguments that the definition...

Virtue and Sophistry: Economy As the Superstructure in Zimbabwe

There were a number of by-elections in Zimbabwe over the last month.  One for local government in my rural home district of Bikita East...

Only political action will remove ZANU PF from power

The leaked audio featuring a conversation between Mnangagwa’s wife Auxillia and an army commander named as Murombo has exposed the power struggles in the...

Is Zimbabwe headed for another coup?

The November 2017 military coup which forced tyrant Robert Mugabe from power is still haunting Zimbabwe, almost 18 months down the line. The remnants...

The United States Dollar as a Deity in Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwean government recently did the unfathomable, at least according to social media pundits, some civil society organisations, unions and influential urbanites.  It arbitrarily...

Zim Workers Day 2019: Re-Linking the Idea of State with Working People

Zimbabwe’s biggest labour federation the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has given the theme for  the 2019  Workers Day commemorations as ‘We are...

ED’s New Establishment Project: An Attempt at Elitist Permanence

When President Emmerson Mnangagwa made overtures for ‘national dialogue’ to his political rivals in the 2018 harmonised elections, it was understandably viewed as some...