GenerationX18

Dr Nkosana Moyo - APA Presidential candidate (credit: Bulawayo 24 News) Now that the World Cup is officially over, it is time to reflect on the upcoming election. For the past month, I have enjoyed watching the football showcase to the eventual French win. Despite all the hullabaloo that came with the World Cup, I could not help but listen to the upcoming showcase back home. Equally as exciting as the World Cup, the upcoming Zimbabwean election never cease to disappoint. With only 11 days to go to the infamous plebiscite, the parties are surely gearing for the final showpiece. Lately though I have wondered and questioned whether ZEC would be able to deliver that credible election that Zimbabweans are desperately yearning for in pursuit of a smooth transition to a prosperous state. The leading opposition led by Nelson Chamisa has continued to lambast ZEC for a number of reasons regarding the election process. Recently the MDC Alliance led a demonstration to ZEC offices and ...

Interesting developments have been taking place lately in the land "open for business". It seems that ED's mantra that Zim is 'open for business' has relatively attracted all sorts of attention and investors. Early this week, ED's twitter account stated that Zimbabwe had signed a $5.2bn deal with Nkosikhona Holdings of South Africa. The deal was described as enabling Zim to produce over 8m litres of liquid fuels per day from coal. It turned out Nkosikhona holdings had no online presence except the mere news that it signed a deal with the Zimbabwe government. With a website under construction and having been formed only 5 years ago, probably the company hit the jackpot with Zimbabwe becoming its first ever project. On the other hand, the ED administration seemed to have been doing well on the international front. It seemed the British government was shifting its policy towards Zimbabwe, as a US$100 million loan was offered to Zimbabwe. The commercial loan was t...

Nelson Chamisa addressing a rally  (Credit-Bulawayo24) I have contemplated writing about the sudden rise of Nelson Chamisa in Zimbabwe's political opposition space. The main reasons why i have pondered on this issue has mainly been because of the controversy that dawned upon his rise to the MDC Alliance leadership. When i created this blog i hoped to address the political challenges that dawn upon Zimbabwe's largely young generation of which i consider myself a part of, it is this generation that comprises most of the voters in the forthcoming election. The emergence of Nelson Chamisa at age 40 as a presidential candidate and numerous other political aspirants whom are quite young running for office is generally plausible but also raises numerous other questions. Among the constant question i have asked myself is whether Nelson Chamisa is Zimbabwe's messiah, will he take us to that Promised Land that most of my generation have been deprived off over the years. Pr...

Morgan Tsvangirai (Credit: Bulawayo24) February 14 2018 is a day that will go down in history for the events that unfolded. Jacob Zuma’s resignation later on last night might have over shadowed the death of an icon. Yet waking up this morning to the news of Morgan Tsvangirai (MT)’s death has unleashed the historical achievements of this great Zimbabwean. I believe we were lucky to have lived in the time of such a great leader, a true democrat. I was never a card carrying member of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) but I adored its leader and felt heartbroken as I read about his death. Many in my generation, may not have known MT on a personal level, but “Save” as he was popularly known brought hope to most young Zimbabweans born after independence. Tsvangirai made us dare to dream that democratic change was possible in Zimbabwe and that prosperity could be ushered into our country in a democratic way. He was a defender of human rights which the Mugabe re...