Category: REALITY BITES

REALITY BITES, Reflection

Jesus, Empire and the Problem With Reclaiming What Was Never Ours Alone

There are essays you read and immediately know you disagree with. Then there are essays that make you uncomfortable precisely because you agree with enough of them to have to think harder about the parts you don’t. “The Paradox of Deification of Jesus Christ,” written by Lovemore Chishamba  is the second kind. I have to say that I love the essay’s anger. That may sound … Continue reading Jesus, Empire and the Problem With Reclaiming What Was Never Ours Alone

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Australia’s Bird Flu Problem Is About to Stop Being a Bird Problem

A dead pelican on a beach is ordinarily a wildlife story. The pelican found at Edithburgh on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula this week was different. It tested positive for H5 bird flu, the first confirmed case in an Australian pelican since the virus arrived on the continent. It was one of five new positive events reported that day, alongside a silver gull, two crested terns … Continue reading Australia’s Bird Flu Problem Is About to Stop Being a Bird Problem

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Tendai Ruben Mbofana is Confusing Etymology for Ideology

Every language has a graveyard of words that used to mean something specific and now mean whatever the room decides they mean. My dear mentor Tendai has just built an entire column on the false idea that words are haunted forever by wherever they were born, and that failing to research a phrase’s family tree before you say it is some kind of moral failure. … Continue reading Tendai Ruben Mbofana is Confusing Etymology for Ideology

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REALITY BITES, Reflection

$1 Million Cash on a Church Altar

Twenty plastic-wrapped bundles of US$100 notes, stacked in full view of a packed congregation. That was the scene at United Family International Church in Chitungwiza this past Sunday, as Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa presented his followers with a US$1 million cash gift from businessman Wicknell Chivayo. The room, by all accounts, erupted — cheers, whistles, applause, the unmistakable sound of a miracle being witnessed in real … Continue reading $1 Million Cash on a Church Altar

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Dispatch, REALITY BITES, The Rising Ledger

Nine Countries Cut Interest Rates Before The Bombs Dropped

Nine African countries including Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this year cut interest rates, citing lower inflation, high foreign demand for their local-currency denominated bonds and current account surpluses. Nine countries. Months of careful fiscal management. Coordinated monetary policy. The quiet, unglamorous work of keeping economies stable enough to grow. Then on February 28th the bombs started falling on Tehran … Continue reading Nine Countries Cut Interest Rates Before The Bombs Dropped

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The Price At The Pump In Marondera

Zimbabwe’s fuel price was $1.54 per litre in November 2025. That was before Brent crude was $61 a barrel. Brent is now above $100 and steadily climbing. Now petrol per litre is USD 2.08. A prolonged conflict or at the Strait of Hormuz could see prices skyrocket toward $120 to $140 per barrel. Zimbabwe’s fuel pricing framework adds government levies, the Strategic Reserve Levy, carbon … Continue reading The Price At The Pump In Marondera

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Since We Are Already Amending, Let’s Dump The Dumb Shit In Our Constitution

Zimbabwe is amending its constitution. Parliament has confirmed it and governing party ZANU-PF has the numbers to make it happen. The public hearings on this issue lasted less than a week across a country of 15 million people, which works out to roughly one hour of democracy per province if you are being generous with the arithmetic. We are doing this since the amendment is … Continue reading Since We Are Already Amending, Let’s Dump The Dumb Shit In Our Constitution

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Zimbabwe’s CAB3 Will Make A Treasonous Coup Way More Easier If Passed

Zimbabwe has always had a gift for doing things no one thought to put in the rulebook. We invented the “constitutional coup” before anyone else thought the phrase made grammatical sense. In November 2017 the military rolled tanks to the national broadcaster, a general read a statement off a sheet of paper and, Robert Mugabe was gone by morning. Nobody called it what it was … Continue reading Zimbabwe’s CAB3 Will Make A Treasonous Coup Way More Easier If Passed

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When The Boss Needs Someone To Blame

Why Did Trump Fire Pam Bondi And Throw Caroline Leavitt Under The Bus? There is a pattern in how Donald Trump manages people, and it has nothing to do with performance. It has everything to do with polls. On March 31, standing in the Oval Office, Trump complained to reporters that he was receiving “93% bad publicity.” Rather than consider that the publicity might reflect … Continue reading When The Boss Needs Someone To Blame

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