Okay, spring has begun! Yes! Now, for those that enjoy observing “Men’s behaviour” cough! cough! This is the period to get out that notebook, go out there and observe, observe, observe.
My first anthropological field (is that the word guerriana?) is the gym.
Now, the gym is a place of pain where you go to train your [...]
A 53-YEAR-OLD woman was beheaded in front of two of her daughters, aged 10 and 17, by supporters of Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s President, because of her suspected backing for the opposition.
Brandina Tadyenemhandu, who had eight children, was decapitated by 20 ruling party militants inside her hut in Magunje, South-west Zimbabwe, on Sunday in the [...]
NGENXA yokwesaba ukulotsholiswa isidumbu, enye indoda yePhikelela indawo eseMahole, eFilabusi, izibophele kulandela ukubhubha kukamama ebihlalisana laye ingamlobolanga.
Lesi sehlakalo esitshiye izakhamizi zimangele senzakale ngeviki ephelileyo njalo kubikwa ukuthi isidumbu sikamama lo obhubhileyo uSvodai Ndlovu silokhu sihlezi emotsha eFilabusi ngoba kungelamuntu okwaziyo ukuthi lumuntu ubevele edabuka kuphi sibisibili.
Izothamlilo zeFilabusi zithi uGeorge Maphosa obeyisakhamuzi sakule indawo ubehlala lalumama [...]
Flashback: On a Sunday on 17 February 2008,roughly a month before the harmonised election I went to cover a rally at Stanley Square in Makokoba which was addressed by MDC Secretary General Welshman Ncube and Vice President,Gibson Sibanda.
During his address Ncube said that he would give up politics if he lost his campaign to Thokozani [...]
MUTARE, August 6 2008 – Mozambiquan police officers are reportedly ill-treating Zimbabweans crossing into their country to shop for basic commodities or conduct business.
This follows the significant cutting down of the quantity of foodstuffs that Zimbabweans can buy from the neighbouring country.
“I lost thousands of Mozambiquan Meticais and groceries to the police, after being arrested [...]
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has said the recount of presidential and House of Assembly election results would proceed on April 19 and they will disregard the High Court ruling that it should not proceed.
No one can doubt that Job Sikhala was the most quoted Member of Parliament in the opposition,he grabbed headlines mostly for the wrong reasons.
His legislative accomplishments are negligible but his wit and humour electrified Parliament.
When the MDC split in 2005 Job Sikhala stood out among all the MPs that sided with Vice President Gibson Sibanda.
He [...]
Obama Statement on Zimbabwe’s Election
Friday, April 4, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Michael Ortiz, 202 228 5566
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barack Obama today released the following statement on Zimbabwe’s presidential and parliamentary elections:
“On March 29th, millions of Zimbabweans went to the polls to choose their president and parliament. The resulting defeat of the ruling ZANU-PF party [...]
Mugabe’s diversionary tactics
Eliphas Mukonoweshuro, International Herald Tribune
The Movement for Democratic Change won the March 29 parliamentary and presidential elections in Zimbabwe.
That fact needs to be stated time and time again, for it is in danger of being gradually buried in a haze of obfuscation and bluff by Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party.
Democracy, so battered [...]
