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Inaction is a vote too!

By Lenox MhlangaFootball, Politics
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NDUMISO Ngcobo, a columnist for South Africa’s Sunday Times newspaper, has got me thinking. Ngcobo has some pretty strong views about membership of any entity, particularly that of a political party. I will not repeat what he wrote in its … Read more

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Tsvangirai a poor substitute for tried and tested Mugabe

By Psychology MaziwisaPolitics

COMPELLING direct and circumstantial evidence indicates that Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has had only one objective since taking to the political stage: to drag Zimbabwe back to its 1979 status. Their 12 years of largely discreditable existence have produced no action … Read more

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After Mugabe: remember the thunder amongst the clouds

By Mthulisi MathuthuPolitics, World
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WHILE Libya’s National Transitional Council may have achieved its broader objective through the toppling and subsequent killing of Muammar Gaddafi, it however remains clear that the real crunch time lies ahead and other democratic movements which are vulnerable to being … Read more

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UK businessman Branson funding ‘Elder’ initiative to get Mugabe out of power

By WikiLeaks US Embassy CablesWikiLeaks US Embassy Cables
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ID: 07PRETORIA2443 DATE: 2007-07-11 00:00:00 CLASSIFICATION: CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN ORIGIN: Embassy Pretoria TEXT C O N F I D E N T I A L PRETORIA 002443 DEPT FOR AF/S S. HILL E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/10/2017 TAGS: PREL, PHUM, KDEM, ZI, SF … Read more

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Jonathan Moyo on Mugabe succession, US policy

By WikiLeaks US Embassy CablesWikiLeaks US Embassy Cables
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2007-03-30 12:30 2011-08-30 01:44 CONFIDENTIAL Embassy Harare VZCZCXRO0064 RR RUEHMR RUEHRN DE RUEHSB #0270/01 0891230 ZNY CCCCC ZZH R 301230Z MAR 07 FM AMEMBASSY HARARE E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/09/2012 TAGS: PREL PGOV ZI SUBJECT: JONATHAN MOYO ON MUGABE SUCCESSION, U.S. … Read more

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Zanu PF must change tactics or lose power

By Psychology MaziwisaPolitics
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LONG-REGARDED as a contemptible figure, a danger to society and so unworthy of occupying the highest office in the land, Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa must always have felt compelled to do a bit of explaining in order not just to … Read more

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Zimbabwe: battle lost in confused diagnosis of tragedy

By Mthulisi MathuthuPolitics
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PEOPLE often ask: what is the magic behind the loyalty of Robert Mugabe’s security services? At face value, this question makes sense for it surely must surprise anybody why they have stood foursquare behind Mugabe for this long, and at … Read more

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Unmasking SADC troika circus in Zambia

By Jonathan MoyoPolitics
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IF REGIME change consultants out there thought they would get away with sending a subliminal but pointed neo-colonial message to Zimbabweans by having Livingstone in Zambia as the ironic venue of last Thursday’s summit of the SADC Troika on politics, … Read more

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Sub-Saharan Africa is not Egypt, William Hague

By Blessing-Miles TendiPolitics, World
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WILLIAM Hague, Britain’s foreign secretary, declared this week that “we are only in the early stages of what is happening in north Africa and the Middle East”. Addressing a London conference of African politicians and businessmen, Hague said that the … Read more

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Sanctions: the real deal has begun

By Jonathan MoyoPolitics
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AS THE historic Zanu PF-led anti-sanctions petition launched by President Robert Mugabe on March 2 gathered further momentum last weekend, with its localisation at major centres in all the country’s 10 provinces to signal its rolling national character, sanctions denialists … Read more

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