Opinion

Unpacking The Equation Of A Delayed Change In Zimbabwe

Build Alliance Zimbabwe leader Noah Manyika (left) and William Pilbrough (right)
Job Sikhala is calling for the kind of critical discussion the cause for change in Zimbabwe desperately deserves.  I would add that there are many people who have sought to “unpack the equation” as Sikhala puts it, but the stubborn facts they share are often viewed as inconvenient, and those who share them as “Killjoys and Grinches” by some who tend to reduce the purpose of the cause to fulfilling the political destinies of individuals and organizations.

Zimbabwe Rising Debt to China: There Is No Free Lunch

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa (L) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping as they pose for the media after a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 3, 2018. Mnangagwa is on a visit to China to seek economic support from a major partner that previously backed his ousted predecessor Robert Mugabe. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / Parker Song
This man, President Mnangagwa reminds me of Unoka in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. His son Okonkwo was embarrassed by him. He was perennially in debt and didn’t care. He was lazy and constantly borrowing from friends and neighbours. He didn’t pay back. He was always looking for favours. (China)

There Is A Sick Person Or Funeral Everywhere In Zimbabwe

Mnangagwa prayer
Now there is a sick person or funeral everywhere in Zimbabwe... But given that many Zimbabweans love to spend their idle time mocking the God of the Bible in public and showing one another how much they hate Him, maybe their leaders should also build them a larger statue of their beloved and revered spirit medium, Nehanda Nyakasikana, and proceed to decree three months of national prayer and fasting to all their favourite gods which they love to worship through their so-called ancestral spirits.

What new things Malaba still wants to share?

Luke Malaba and Mary Zimba-Dube
From the onset look of things, former Chief Justice Luke Malaba is no longer welcome, even within the system. The current structure is rejecting him, and he has no option except to throw in the towel. What is it that he is fighting for, that he did not achieve for the past 26 years?