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1 month ago | 
thestandard.co.zw | Kenneth Mufuka |Nqobani Ndlovu |Miriam Mangwaya |Everson Mushava
As Zimbabwe enters into a second crisis after the removal of Robert Mugabe, I sit alone, in a faraway country and ask myself, do I have a country and if so, is Zimbabwe my country?
Let us begin with words from the wise ones. Ann Rand was a refugee from Russia and she realised, as I do, that the Russian masquerade of equal opportunity under the communists, was but a charade.
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1 month ago | 
thestandard.co.zw | Kenneth Mufuka |Nqobani Ndlovu |Problem Masau |Vanessa Gonye
As we, in the Diaspora, look at the internecine wars going on between two Zanu PF wings we are amazed to find that the party has not transformed itself to cope with two developments that have changed the nature of the struggle in British education was unique in that, requiring at least five subjects, English and mathematics being mandatory, it produced a thinking and almost a moral person.
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2 months ago | 
thestandard.co.zw | Kenneth Mufuka |Nqobani Ndlovu |Nunurai Jena |Tafadzwa Mhlanga
I was surprised to find that Elliot Abrams, one of the long discredited neo-cons, who worked for president Ronald Reagan (1980-1988) and has resurfaced this week in Foreign Affairs, laying out president Donald Trump policy in Gaza and the Middle East.
Neo-cons were responsible the Iraqi war under false pretenses (2001-2008).
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
thestandard.co.zw | Kenneth Mufuka |Kenneth Nyangani |Miriam Mangwaya |Tafadzwa Mhlanga
January 6 marked the day when the election of Donald J. Trump was certified by Congress, with his opponent, vice-president Kamala Harris chairing the meeting.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
thestandard.co.zw | Kenneth Mufuka |Miriam Mangwaya |Nqobani Ndlovu |Moses Mugugunyeki
January 6 marked the day when the election of Donald J Trump was certified by Congress, with his opponent, vice-president Kamala Harris chairing the meeting.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
thestandard.co.zw | Kenneth Mufuka |Miriam Mangwaya |Nqobani Ndlovu |Moses Mugugunyeki
The instructions were very clear. “Ken, how do you view the internecine wars going on between Zanu PF wings?”
In the book entitled, The Art of War, by the Chinese genius, Sun Tzu, a master strategist is he who distracts his opponent to concentrate on useless tasks, while leaving important matters unattended.
While internecine battles within Zanu PF are juicy, in the long run they are a distraction from matters that affect the lives of Zimbabweans.
Allow me here to use a professor’s jargon.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
thestandard.co.zw | Kenneth Mufuka |Miriam Mangwaya |Nqobani Ndlovu |Moses Mugugunyeki
A secret.
I was listening to Chris Chinaka’s interview with Trevor Ncube. These brothers reminded me of the golden days at Ziana. What made those days the golden days was that anyone of us could walk into the offices of our elders, Willie Musarurwa, Henry Muradzikwa and Henry Munyukwi and share a cup of tea.
Willie called me one day and asked: “Ken, do you know that Enos Nkala will never see anything good in Joshua Nkomo?”
There was a family quarrel in which Nkomo was accused of a breach of trust.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
thestandard.co.zw | Kenneth Mufuka |Desmond Chingarande |Nqobani Ndlovu |Tinashe Kairiza
Many Americans are feeling a sense of freedom from fear, and a sense of relief during the Thanksgiving week-end. The reason is not far to seek.
The renegade billionaire Donald J. Trump’s sweeping electoral victory has sent President Joe Biden’s political prosecutors fleeing for their lives.
Biden used lawfare to get at his political opponents. While the practice became widespread under Barak Obama’s tenure (2008-2016), Biden carried it to its extreme.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
thestandard.co.zw | Kenneth Mufuka |Miriam Mangwaya |Kenneth Nyangani |Nqobani Ndlovu
Trump’s sweeping victory in the US presidential elections caught the Democrats by surprise.
This has affected media and print industries more than any other.
The issue at hand is whether, these media moguls, who at every turn made up stuff about Donald Trump and adumbrated the legal warfare initiated by President Joe Biden against his political rival should be treated the way they treated Trump.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
thestandard.co.zw | Kenneth Mufuka |Nqobani Ndlovu |Miriam Mangwaya |Sharon Buwerimwe
In this letter I have taken great pains in relating how, from Bill Clinton’s time in office (1994-2000) the Democratic Party has neglected the working class.
Nowhere is the abandonment of the working class clearer than in Mingo County, West Virginia, one the home of longtime Senator Robert Byrd, a 32-year congressional veteran. In 1996 election, Democrats tool 67% of the vote. There were 3 300 coal miners then.
