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
Okay I guess I am going to be that guy. We all know that Brett Holley, a Zimbabwean activist who calls himself Brett MuVet launched a political party/movement last week calling it Varanda VeZimbabwe. He dropped a launch video akin to what can be a manifesto. He discussed his aspirations and some other details of this new part. Most importantly, he pointed put his intention … Continue reading Brett Muvet and Hopewell Chin’ono Have Pure Delusions About How Governments In Exile Work
A white man has just launched a political party in Zimbabwe, and he wants you to know it is not about him. That at least, is the pitch. Brett Holley is a Zimbabwean businessman and social media personality better known by his public persona, Brett “Muvet”. He has spent recent years building an online following as a political commentator. This past week he announced the … Continue reading Who Is Brett Holley?: Inside Zimbabwe’s Newest and Whitest Political Experiment
In Addis Ababa last week, health ministers from across the continent gathered under the vaulted diplomacy of the African Union’s home city for the seventy-sixth session of the World Health Organization’s Regional Committee for Africa, and the language coming out of the plenary halls was, as it usually is at these gatherings, expansive. Delegates from forty-seven member states spent the opening days endorsing the Africa … Continue reading Raising the Health Bar in Addis: Zimbabwe’s Tall Order for the Workforce Agenda
Mabel Chinomona holds two titles that do not, on their face, obviously combine into a mandate on reproductive health. She is the president of Zimbabwe’s Senate and, separately, the Secretary for Women’s Affairs within the ruling ZANU PF party’s Women’s League, a wing of the party apparatus that traces its own history back to 1977. It was in the latter capacity, speaking at a Women’s … Continue reading “Be Fruitful and Multiply”: ZANU PF’s Bizarre War on Family Planning
The water did not fall from the sky. That is the detail investigators keep returning to as they try to explain how a stretch of the Himalayas that had seen no significant rainfall turned, in the space of a few minutes on Wednesday morning, into one of the deadliest disaster zones in the region’s recent history. What began at 8:37 a.m. local time as a … Continue reading Analysis: Glacial Collapse Turns Nepal-Tibet Border into a Graveyard
Ratko Mladić died today in a prison hospital in The Hague, at 84, and with him went one of the last living figures who could stand, in a single body, for the violence that tore Yugoslavia apart three decades ago. The former Bosnian Serb general had been serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity stemming from the 1992 to 1995 … Continue reading Ratko Mladić and the Long Shadows of the Balkans
At least 44 people are confirmed dead after a government-operated ferry capsized on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba on Tuesday afternoon, in what is shaping up to be one of the country’s deadliest transport disasters in recent memory. Here is what has been established so far, and what remains unclear, as the picture continues to shift. The vessel, named Mbuya Nehanda and operated by the Rural Infrastructure … Continue reading 44 Dead in Zimbabwe’s Deadliest Ferry Disaster in Years
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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