Written in 2005 during Operation Murambatsvina (Operation Clean Up the Filth) in Harare.
When a despot frowns
The sun shines on the streets,
And the whole nation exults,
No man ever dares to restrict,
The jovial citizens from moving about,
Everywhere, the people chat and laugh,
Drowning memories from the war of liberation in their new found bliss,
Blown by the Kalashnikov, the [...]
…as Windhoek woman is quarantined
By Tawanda Kanhema
NAMIBIAN health officials were on Monday caught unawares after a woman who just returned to the country from Hong Kong checked into the Catholic Hospital in Windhoek with flu symptoms she feared were related to the deadly H1N1 virus.
Although officials at the hospital say the woman does not [...]
Msika and Nkomo have largely depended on Mugabe for their political survival. Mugabe uses them to do a tribal balancing act in terms of representation in both the government and the Zanu PF political party. They are ‘Unity Accord’ window dressing for his political appointments.
Freedom of Information law long overdue in Namibia
BY TAWANDA KANHEMA
THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter,” said Thomas Jefferson, the third United States president in his [...]
AS the unity government in Zimbabwe grapples with the mammoth task of mending the country’s tattered economy and social services, thugs aligned to President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF continue to disrupt farm operations with impunity, jeorpadising the country’s chances of improving its erratic food supplies.
