Natasha Msonza

At the risk of ruffling the feathers of feminists and other womenists who are understood to be circulating emails of apology amongst themselves and to Regional Integration and International Cooperation Minister, Priscilla Misihariambwi-Mushonga for ‘letting her down’, I think the hoopla around the latter’s property dispute has become a circus and smacks of nothing but a publicity stunt. The media have not disappointed and have enjoyed over a week-long field day writing about this issue. Some to the extent of printing misleading headlines using words like ‘homeless’.

I recently came… ( Read on! )

Last week, Kubatana sent out a text message asking Zimbabweans what they thought about the state parting with $1.8 million as payment for Brazil’s Samba boys to come in for a friendly with our national team, the Warriors. They also sought to influence our conscience by reminding us that this was being done in the face of our civil servants getting peanut salaries. I don’t know how far true this business of paying $1.8 million is since ZIFA has been denying ‘such allegations’, but I remember looking at Kaka that day and thinking that clearly, Kubatanas are not soccer fanatics.

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Last week I travelled to South Africa and back by road. It wasn’t the most pleasant thing to do because soon as I got back, I was down with a sore throat and cold for three days. I am only just starting to get my voice back, thanks to six whole hours of being stuck out in the cold at Beitbridge border post.

I had always heard about the tedious delays at the border and the fact that Zim side always seems to be on go slow no matter when you cross, but that was not enough to prepare me for what I witnessed and went through. Apart from the irritated glares from the South African side… ( Read on! )

I found it rather ironic recently that just after reading in the Mail & Guardian of this week that Zimbabwe’s Chikurubi prison has for the past 5 years been struggling to find a hangman; I encountered the Fingaz’s opinion by CZ bemoaning the death sentence in Zimbabwe. He was especially bemoaning the fact that opponents of the death penalty are amazingly silent at a time they should be making a lot of noise while the constitution is currently being debated. According to the M&G, the absence of an executioner has meant that some 50+ men on death row have been leading… ( Read on! )

At the Easter break, I took myself to a quiet, peaceful place mainly to thoroughly rest my mind before plunging myself back into the chaos of my daily modern life. Between taking long walks, sleeping long hours and watching television, I tried so hard to read a book my new landlady gave to me before she skipped the country, probably to never return. The book is titled Jambanja, and I was excited to read it for two reasons: it was written by one ‘white farmer’ named Eric Harrison who lived through the experience of the chaotic state sanctioned farm invasions labelled ‘land reform’. I… ( Read on! )