Category: Politics

Politics, SYSTEMS ON TRIAL

The Real Truth They Don’t Want You To Know: Why Property Is So Expensive In Zimbabwe

I didn’t plan to write this. But sometimes an article burrows into your thoughts and refuses to let go. That’s what happened when I stumbled across a piece online titled “Why Are Properties So Pricey in Zimbabwe? Here Are 8 Reasons” published on 9 June, 2025, by NewZWire. It was informative, well-structured, and made a compelling case around factors like land shortages, inflation, and the … Continue reading The Real Truth They Don’t Want You To Know: Why Property Is So Expensive In Zimbabwe

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#environment, Politics

Ecological Conversion as Political Resistance

I remember reading Laudato Si’ not as a Catholic encyclical, but as a manifesto smuggled into the open—one that spoke of climate not as weather but as wound, economy not as growth but as theft. Pope Francis called for “ecological conversion,” but that phrase has always struck me as misnamed. Because it is more than personal transformation. It is political defiance. In a world where … Continue reading Ecological Conversion as Political Resistance

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NOISY TRUTHS, Politics, THIS IS NOT A DRILL

The Bail of a Man, the Silence of a Nation

Blessed Mhlanga is out. After seventy-two days of caged breath and cold concrete, after two humiliating bail denials and a nation’s stunned indifference, a judge has finally decided that the crime of journalism does not warrant indefinite punishment—at least not officially. He was released Tuesday 06 May on US$500 bail. But make no mistake: what has ended is not the injustice. Only the prelude. Because … Continue reading The Bail of a Man, the Silence of a Nation

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NOISY TRUTHS, Opinion, Politics

The Govt Cannot Block The Exodus Of Professionals Through Force

Let’s not kid ourselves. You can burn the letters, double the fees, threaten the nurses, and chain the airport gates if you want—but people will still find a way to leave this crumbling husk of a nation. This isn’t just about migration anymore; it’s an escape. An instinct for survival. Zimbabwe has become a place where dreams go to drown, and the people, God help … Continue reading The Govt Cannot Block The Exodus Of Professionals Through Force

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Opinion, Politics

Minister Machakaire Just Discovered What the Rest of Us Live With

I saw the post on X just after 9 a.m., while waiting in a queue for my grandmother’s antibiotics at a local clinic. The power had gone out, again. There was no doctor on duty, again. And someone’s mother was crying in the hallway because she’d just been told to “bring her own gloves.” It was against this backdrop that I opened my phone and … Continue reading Minister Machakaire Just Discovered What the Rest of Us Live With

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NOISY TRUTHS, Politics, THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Who Owns the Future When the Youth Are Just Campaign Props?

I am tired of being a slogan.

Tired of being the glossy smile on a political poster, the ‘youth’ they name-drop when it’s time to chase votes or donors or dreams that were never built for us. I am tired of being the opening act at your summits, the dance troupe at your national celebrations, the one who reads the prepared speech about “hope” while you sip whisky and rehearse betrayal in the comfort of your bulletproof sedans. You wheel us out like ornaments, like cultural seasoning, and then stuff us back into unemployment, depression, or exile once the cameras are off.

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Politics

Patriotism Without Accountability Is Just Propaganda

There is no virtue in waving a flag drenched in blood. There is no dignity in singing an anthem muffled by the cries of the brutalized. And there is certainly no honour in pledging allegiance to a state that beats its people into silence and starves them into submission. Yet across the world, governments and their loyalists invoke the word “patriotism” like scripture, using it not as a unifier, but as a whip to silence dissent. This is not patriotism. This is propaganda. And propaganda in the hands of the powerful is a dangerous tool—a mask worn by tyranny, cloaked in national colours.

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Politics

Diaspora Isn’t Just Jet Lag and Instagram Stories

Everyone loves the idea of the diaspora when it’s just about accents and “international perspectives,” right? A little exotic seasoning to sprinkle on your diversity panel. But living in the diaspora isn’t just airport codes and WhatsApp calls across time zones. It’s exile. It’s grief with no funeral. It’s shouting in a language your children might never fully understand.

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Politics

Since When Did Survival Become a Full-Time Job?

It is a strange thing, isn’t it — to wake up each day and realize that breathing, eating, and simply existing have become labors more brutal than the work we were taught to dream of? There was a time, or so they told us, when work was about building a life, stacking one brick of hope upon another, until you could look back and say you had truly lived. Now, survival itself has been twisted into a full-time job, stripped of dignity, stripped of meaning, stripped of the simple promise that if you worked hard, you would be okay.

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