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A country’s moral dilemma over liberation icon

By Alex MagaisaPolitics
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AS AN unequalled avalanche of emotion engulfed the national landscape last week following the shocking death of Retired General Solomon Mujuru, there were certain discernible features that still refused to be obfuscated. The nation would do well to take notice … Read more

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Why I want to be a white man

By Joram NyathiPolitics

IT is people like Cremer who give President Mugabe a cult status if what he allegedly said is true. It is also people like Sekai Holland who undermine the MDC’s credibility. For, as the Frenchman said, with friends like Holland, … Read more

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The real problems confronting SA’s ‘Brave New World’

By Joram NyathiPolitics

I HAVE just read a review of RW Johnson’s South Africa’s Brave New World by Shaun de Wall in the Mail & Guardian of South Africa. The reviewer concludes that Johnson’s book is a “prophecy of doom”. He sees South … Read more

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Zuma has duty to ‘Africanise’ South Africa

By Joram NyathiPolitics

  LAST week, I watched on TV a debate on land reform between South Africa’s four main political parties contesting next week’s presidential and parliamentary elections.   Those represented were the Democratic Alliance, Freedom Front Plus, the Pan African Congress … Read more

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Zimbabwe at 29: a nation in need of healing

By Alex MagaisaPolitics

THIS weekend, Zimbabwe celebrates her 29th birthday rather sadly, as a mere shell of what it used to be; a shadow of what it could have been but for inept management.   But make no mistake about it, the day … Read more

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Reviving ‘dead’ capital on Zimbabwe’s farms

By Alex MagaisaPolitics

TWO weeks ago, Interfresh Limited, a Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) listed food and agricultural business issued a cautionary statement to its shareholders stating that on February 7, 2009, a group of people in the assured company of law enforcement agents … Read more

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