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Perspective Stephen Mpofu Corruption is like cancer. If left to spread and flower the scourge blights the images of state institutions, local authorities and the name of our country in the eyes of the global community with detrimental consequences all round. When you consider the horrendous nature of corruption, as this pen does, you cannot help […]
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Perspective Stephen Mpofu SHOULD political happenings of recent weeks be re-enacted along with their trademark hysteria, they are wont to posit for peace-loving Zimbabweans a turbulent future rather than one pregnant with long gains of the armed revolution that brought uhuru to this country in 1980. The trending discourse of the opposition political parties gunning for power […]
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Analysis Stephen Mpofu Façade-democracy dies once adversarial pressure is mounted on it as a litmus test of its staying power. And so like façade democracy, façade-revolutionaries die the moment the enemies of black freedom and self-determination wave a succulent carrot in their eyes to buy them over to their side as tools in an imperialist war against […]
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Perspective Stephen Mpofu IF you have all your senses in the right place and in top gear, you cannot mix sand and ashes and present the product as a cake to people waiting with their mouths watering. This pen suggests that to do so amounts to an absurdity of absurdities. Yet believe it or not, like it or […]
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Stephen Mpofu Opinion IN Zimbabwe’s august House some (dis) honourable members flex their necks or move around with an articulated swagger to show off to an assembly of other respected MPs the stuff of which they are made. They are probably even more vocal in criticising the performances of colleagues, or remain mum for almost an
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Perspective Stephen Mpofu GUNS blazed this week against Africa’s European colonisers and neo-colonial sections of the world press in defence of the new role that China is playing in reconstructing and revamping the economies of a free and independent Africa. The United Nations’ former long-serving political servant, James Jonah, came
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Perspective Stephen Mpofu Local authorities collectively form a critical chain in linking ratepayers to central government in the campaign for social development for the benefit of both rural and urban residents. If the link is weak, however, any anticipated upliftment of the lives of ordinary people in particular is retarded or proceeds at a
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Perspective By Stephen Mpofu The saying that “One swallow does not make a summer” is no doubt globally acknowledged. For most people the validity of the truism begins and ends there. For others, however, especially journalists in the West where the profession originated, a single swallow “does make many summers”, or news stories
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Perspective Stephen Mpofu Zimbabweans who are desperate for power and turn a blind eye to the political sagacity of povo by turning themselves over as black horses for white riders, look dead set for a rude awakening. Bishop Abel Muzorewa and his ill-fated United African National Council and other black sell-outs tried it but failed on
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Perspective Stephen Mpofu “When guardians of the law break it with impunity, who will guard the law?” The above, with one or two word variations, is a lament heard in many societies where custodians of the law, the police, violate the law with impunity in the same way as, instead of coursing the prey, hunting dogs run […]
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Perspective Stephen Mpofu Literacy in Zimbabwe is almost universally pervasive with the functional part, which relates reading and writing to practical work, a sizable component of the aggregate 91 percent rating that makes Zimbabweans the most literate nation on the African continent. Lest some smart Alec credits the phenomenal growth
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Perspective Stephen Mpofu EMPTY tins howl, howl and howl to the gallery of dry winds that leave behind no sodden earth to swallow seed and digest it to multiply itself and feed hungry mouths.In an environment of political stability and even one of relative calm, political oppositions play an important role as catalysts for national, […]
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Perspective Stephen Mpofu “What was once a lake is now a crossing point.” Abridged though this African proverb-cum-metaphor might be, yet it nevertheless still captures an imperative need for Zimbabwe, once a surplus maize food producer and exporter — but now an importer of the staple diet — to reverse the existing riches-to-rags bromide
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Stephen Mpofu With, as humanity calls it, God’s masterpiece handiwork or Earth teetering on the brink of virtual extinction something had to break somewhere — and it did break just days ago when the leader of a country among the worst polluters of the globe announced a giant leap from leap to action to heal […]
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