Chinyoka on Tuesday: A child will be born in Zimbabwe today
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka Six years it has been since last l spoke of the children of hope, of how the birth of a child must mean hope that the future … Read More
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Chinyoka on Tuesday: This legitimacy nonsense is nauseating
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka It’s one of the ironies of life, that students almost always surpass their teachers. But we have never checked to see why this is, or if we … Read More
Chinyoka on Tuesday: Nothing more painful than to lose a child
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka A long, long time ago when I was young, long before life started to prove that it made no sense, back when it was possible to think … Read More
Chinyoka on Tuesday: On why certain criticism must be ignored
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka One of the best teachers l had, was my Grade 7 teacher, in Shurugwi where we lived briefly after leaving Mberengwa, the land of my fathers. The … Read More
Tinomudaishe Chinyoka: Why the march against sanctions is necessary
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka There are those who will want to pontificate and argue until they are hoarse that there are no sanctions against Zimbabwe. That there exists only “targeted sanctions” … Read More
Chinyoka on Tuesday: In the midst of all the chaos, eMagumeni works
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka A long time ago, like kuthiwakudala amatsheesancwebeka, study time in school used to be largely devoted to the writing of letters to deliver at “see-me time”. Tinomudaishe … Read More
Chinyoka on Tuesday: When Moses Chunga went to Mberengwa
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka There are legends, and then there are legends. Take nothing away from present day heroes and other also-runs, but they will never quite reach the levels of … Read More
Chinyoka on Tuesday: Mugabe really did die for this country
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka There are many things going wrong at once in our prodigious land, things that give you a pain at the bleeding of the motherland and makes you … Read More
Chinyoka on Tuesday: It’s all vanity: this is not an obituary of Robert Mugabe
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka So, he died, Robert Gabriel Mugabe did. Kufa kuti fii, as they say where I come from. Died. It was always going to happen of course, death … Read More
Chinyoka on Tuesday: Letter to ‘The Family’
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka To: The Family First of all, nematambudziko. There will be time to write obituaries for the departed, but it is too early. So contradictory was the life … Read More
Chinyoka on Tuesday: There is a rainbow, at the end of this tough road
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka “There is a rainbow, at the end of this tough road.” In or around 1988, back when Mandela was in prison and school plays were staged demanding … Read More
Tinomudaishe Chinyoka: I don’t think we should ban all demos
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka A few days ago, the President said that observing the rule of law is not something we need to do for the purpose of pleasing other countries, … Read More
Chinyoka on Tuesday: Those with real power don’t need to use it
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka There is an interesting story about a powerful woman, who went around the village showing everyone that she was powerful and that there was nothing anyone could … Read More
Chinyoka on Tuesday: Demonstrations are for student politics, not national issues
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka My best friend lost a family member this week. She travelled to the funeral, to places I have never been. Not by choice, because in fact, I … Read More
Tinomudaishe Chinyoka: Chamisa’s perennial failure to detect a clear case of smuggling
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka Popular culture has instances where it gives insightful life lessons, which sadly get missed because, well, we access pop culture for entertainment and not lessons, don’t we? … Read More
Tinomudaishe Chinyoka: Chamisa conflates religion with Christianity
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka Many people think, and they are wrong to think this, that Zimbabwe starts and ends in Harare. Tinomudaishe Chinyoka In fact, many in the opposition believe, and … Read More
Tinomudaishe Chinyoka: Ha! Mbavha dzedu dzinosvota mhani!
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka Karekare, kare chaiko zvokudoti ndingati pasi pasati parohwa nenyundo, taimboti kana tashayiwa zvikuita taimboti ngatiitei zvinemero. Paitukwa munhu! Waidigwa munhu kusvika adumbigwa, aperegwa. Waiti ukahwa munhu otanga … Read More
Chinyoka on Tuesday: The dangerous game that is brewing in the fight against corruption
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka The story will never be told one day, it really won’t, about how Haruperi Madhubeko was walking to the river to fetch water, when the news landed … Read More
Chinyoka on Tuesday: Is it time to target some new criminals around the President?
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka I would like to propose a thesis that others will attack me for, which is that we have a very good President but some very dubious people … Read More
Chinyoka on Tuesday: In Zimbabwe we reward deals, not enterprise
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka At the height of the global financial crisis, executives from the “Big Three” American automakers, General Motors Corp, Ford Motor Co, and Chrysler LLC travelled to Washington … Read More
Chinyoka on Tuesday: Was the DRC game fixed?
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka It has become par for the course, corruption has. The Auditor General released her report, from about 3 years ago, and what you read about would be … Read More
Chinyoka on Tuesday: It must work but if it works it won’t work
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka You just have to love this country, honestly. We do not let a good crisis pass by without creating a joke or something memorable around it. Tinomudaishe … Read More
Chinyoka on Tuesday: The trouble with Chamisa….. sorry, people like Chief Ndiweni
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka I have written a dirge about Zimbabwe, and how much we have forgotten what it means to be Zimbabwean. I have written about compensation for land, and … Read More
Chinyoka on Tuesday: Chamisa and the curse of legitimacy
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka In the lead up to the Second Gulf War, many demonstrators took to the streets in the United Kingdom with one point to make: the Iraq war … Read More
Chinyoka on Tuesday: Of course demonstrators must pay for the damage they cause, duh!
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka Sioux Falls is the most populous city in the US state of South Dakota. For a long time, hearing references of it on TV, poverty having consigned … Read More
Chinyoka on Tuesday: It’s the supporters, stupid!
By Tinomudaishe Chinyoka I really like animated shows and movies. After Shawshank and District 9, I cant think of three better movies of all time for my top five than … Read More
Tinomudaishe Chinyoka: Why we must not celebrate the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission Report
By Advocate Tinomudaishe Chinyoka The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission is not an NGO. It is a Constitutional Commission established in terms of section 242 of the 2013 Constitution to promote awareness, … Read More