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Nelson Mandela International Day is all about mobilizing people, governments, NGOs, and corporations to take steps every day to make this world a better place. The United Nations sent out a clarion call today for everyone to redouble efforts to meet the Mandela Day organization’s 2030 goals. Mandela Day goals Goal 1 – Provision of… Read more.
Scores of people were arrested Friday in Zimbabwe as hundreds of military troops as well as police attempted to thwart an anti-government protest, with streets empty and many people hiding indoors. … Tensions are rising in Zimbabwe as the economy implodes. Inflation is more than 700%, the second highest in the world. Now the coronavirus… Read more.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a Black commentator who criticized late Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s land reforms of the early 2000s more than I did. However, the backlash from other Black commentators was such that, if I didn’t know better, I would’ve thought I was betraying my race. Meanwhile, it was plain for all to… Read more.
Corruption, incompetence, lawlessness, and the spectre of racial retribution are driving South Africa into the same dysfunctional shithole where Zimbabwe has been festering for the past 30 years. I have lamented this fateful symmetry in many commentaries, most notably in “South Africa ‘Betraying Its Values’,” May 13, 2011, “Zuma Doing to South Africa What Mugabe… Read more.
Frankly, this could not have happened to a nicer strongman. Early Wednesday, Maj. Gen. Sibusiso Moyo, Zimbabwe’s army chief of staff, denied on state TV that the military had overthrown longtime President Robert Mugabe, despite tanks in the streets and reports of explosions and gunfire. The ruling ZANU-PF party later tweeted that former Vice President… Read more.
The following is an excerpt from “Zimbabweans Pray for Liberation from their Liberator, Robert Mugabe,” March 29, 2005. It attests to my abiding lamentation on President Mugabe’s willful intent to ruin his country’s farmland and, by extension, its agrarian economy – all in the name of Black liberation. __________________ The Mugabe government of Zimbabwe is the most corrupt, dysfunctional,… Read more.
You would be hard-pressed to find a non-African (or even a non-Zimbabwean) who has decried Robert Mugabe’s rule more than I. Here are two illustrative excerpts from the many commentaries I’ve written on point. __________________ From “Zimbabweans Pray for Liberation from their Liberator – Robert Mugabe,” March 29, 2005. The Mugabe government of Zimbabwe is the most corrupt,… Read more.
Truth be told, the only thing newsworthy about Wednesday’s general elections in Zimbabwe is how peaceful they were. It certainly came as no surprise when the state Election Commission announced today that President Robert Mugabe was re-elected with 61 percent of the popular vote over Opposition Leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who garnered only 33. No less… Read more.
Last year I joined the chorus of political commentators all over the world in hailing the coalition government between President Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party and Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party as the best hope for democracy in Zimbabwe. And we did so knowing full well that this coalition… Read more.
One of the potential hazards of publishing online commentaries is that it’s very easy for experts on any subject you’re writing about to expose you as an uninformed fool. In fact, I know extremely intelligent people who refuse to even submit online comments out fear of having them undermined by more informed comments. Therefore, I… Read more.
