By Nkosana Dlamini, Harare Zimbabwe‘s defence minister has said the army will crush any Egyptian-style uprising led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. The latter said last week that there is nothing wrong with people demanding their rights, including in Zimbabwe. “We in Zanu PF (Mugabe’s party, ed.) are determined to make sure that there is… Continue reading Zimbabwe: Army will crush any Egyptian-style uprising
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What a Choice
Africa Union leader currently meeting holding a summit in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa have roped in one of their controversial counterpart, Robert Mugabe to mediate in the Ivory Coast crisis. News from Ethiopia of Mugabe’s drafting in has angered human rights activists and his political foes in Zimbabwe. Reports say Mugabe, 86 joins in the expanded… Continue reading What a Choice
Chinua Achebe and Why Things are in Free Fall in Africa
Things have fallen apart in Africa for a long time because of colonialism, capitalism, socialism, Marxism, communism, tribalism, ethnic chauvinism… neoliberalism, globalism and what have you. Things are in total free fall in Africa today because Africa has become a collection of vampiric states ruled by kleptocrats who have sucked it dry of its natural and human resources.