tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11161732415225783412024-03-07T23:18:57.862-08:00Conversations with MawereBe the change that you want to see - Mutumwa MawereAfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-13297558148424394732008-02-06T02:21:00.000-08:002008-02-06T09:50:48.608-08:00February 3, 2008Zimbabwe 2008: The election whose outcome is predetermined Zimbabwe finds itself at the crossroads and the bank created at independence in 1980 of justice, freedom and equality seems to be bankrupt and it is evident that the promissory note that was given to citizens at independence will not be honored on March 29.A central bank should ordinarily represent a repository of trust AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-26658916044876348422008-02-03T09:04:00.000-08:002008-02-06T09:05:52.662-08:00Zimbabwe 2008: The election whose outcome is predeterminedZimbabwe finds itself at the crossroads and the bank created at independence in 1980 of justice, freedom and equality seems to be bankrupt and it is evident that the promissory note that was given to citizens at independence will not be honored on March 29. A central bank should ordinarily represent a repository of trust and integrity but the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has been reduced to a theatreAfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-22275282806216947202008-02-03T05:39:00.000-08:002008-02-06T09:10:37.568-08:00Cash Barons – Flatwater RevisitedA case has been made that Zimbabwe is under siege and, therefore, the end should justify the means. In about 56 days, Zimbabweans will be faced with a choice about who should shape their future and they will have to think seriously about the role of state institutions in undermining or promoting their collective interests.The RBZ has boldly asserted that it has been forced to go beyond its AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-49827494798200241982008-01-28T07:29:00.000-08:002008-02-06T02:15:08.554-08:00Zimbabwe 2008: The triumph of the politics of fearIt is now a reality that the harmonised polls will be held on 29 March 2008.Only last year this time, the conventional wisdom in many opposition circles was that President Mugabe would not secure the mandate of his party as a candidate when his term expired let alone him being democratically endorsed as candidate of the party for the 2008 elections.Many experts advanced the notion that Mugabe AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-56886999073137445222008-01-28T02:06:00.000-08:002008-02-06T02:09:30.103-08:00Zimbabwe 2008: The triumph of the politics of fearIt is now a reality that the harmonised polls will be held on 29 March 2008.Only last year this time, the conventional wisdom in many opposition circles was that President Mugabe would not secure the mandate of his party as a candidate when his term expired let alone him being democratically endorsed as candidate of the party for the 2008 elections.Many experts advanced the notion that Mugabe AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-81773766205947546502008-01-24T05:28:00.000-08:002008-01-25T05:33:11.656-08:00Obama v Clinton/Clinton and lessons for AfricaBoth Senators Obama and Hillary Clinton are democratic Presidential nominees and their emergence as the front runners of their party represents a historic and defining moment in American history.Since the founding of the republic, the White House has been the exclusive preserve of white males and the thought of an African American and a White Female, albeit a former first lady, being prospective AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-16761499701825182092008-01-21T13:50:00.000-08:002008-01-21T13:51:56.166-08:00Africa 2008: Citizens, Money and Power in AfricaThere are many big questions that should inform African conversations but regrettably we are all guilty of small talk in respect of some key and fundamental issues that have to be addressed if Africa is to advance its cause. The role of citizens, money and power relationships in shaping Africa’s destiny have to form part of the great debates between and amongst us.Who does Africa belong to? WhatAfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-5730581344512379552008-01-17T02:28:00.000-08:002008-01-17T02:31:26.257-08:00Africa 2008: Citizens and Power – The Zimbabwean Case StudyPolitical power in any democratic and constitutional order is held by the holders of sovereignty. It is true that without following a principle of containing and balancing legislative, executive, and judiciary powers, there can be no freedom and no protection against the abuse of power.The separation of power principle between the three branches of the state is so fundamental to the protection AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-2698387114883329042008-01-13T12:27:00.000-08:002008-01-14T13:45:04.457-08:00Obama’s audacity of hope and lessons for AfricaAfter two primaries, Obama has won 16 delegates compared to Senator Clinton’s 9. The results of the New Hampshire primary have demonstrated the resilience of Obama and underlying the hype following the elections is the undeniable fact that Clinton and Obama ended up in New Hampshire with the same number of delegates i.e. 9 each making it a draw.Even if Obama may not make it as the candidate, the AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-1738236749699427962008-01-13T10:00:00.000-08:002008-01-14T15:10:03.688-08:00If Zuma & Shaik are guilty, who is innocent?The relationship between the petty bourgeoisie and political elites in a post colonial state is a subject that requires critical interrogation not only because it informs the kind of democratic order and political morality that is necessary to push back the frontiers of poverty itself largely a legacy of the colonial state.The end of apartheid in South Africa ushered a new era in which political AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-36501681918334845472008-01-06T15:01:00.000-08:002008-01-13T04:36:55.686-08:00Zimbabwe – Nathaniel Manheru/Charamba and lessons for nation buildingZimbabwe will turn 28 this year not because the country did not have a history prior to independence but citizens chose to build a new civilization in 1979 based on a just and democratic constitutional order underpinned by a simple concept of self government.The post colonial state was a product of a protracted civil rights struggle and I would like to think that many would agree that the AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-46514598045445509912008-01-02T12:42:00.000-08:002008-01-14T12:42:58.492-08:00Zimbabwe at the crossroads - The privatisation of the stateThe role of the West in undermining post colonial democratic institutions is a subject that requires its own debate but is not a new subject. Many post colonial states have found in imperialism a convenient and potent defence against their own bad governance and human and property rights abuses.The spin doctors of bad leaders in many of these post colonial states now make it a habit to use AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-53589247828528873142007-12-30T08:00:00.000-08:002008-01-13T04:37:16.763-08:00Be the change that you want to seeNO SOCIETY can ever be greater than the sum of the actions of its citizens. The end of each calendar year is like a birthday of a natural person that provides an opportunity to take stock and reflect on past achievements and challenges of the future.Indeed, when we say many happy returns, we are celebrating life and its renewal because, like water, life makes a difference that cannot be reduced AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-59387783214092382192007-12-24T08:03:00.000-08:002008-01-13T04:37:38.811-08:00The paradox of African liberation and changeIN 1994, South Africa became the youngest African country that was born from the womb of apartheid and its foundational constitutional order was uniquely informed by not only the experiences of other post-colonial African states but other nations outside the continent.The deracialisation of South Africa was a costly project principally because the stakes were high and the settler community had AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-59728080073038101812007-12-19T08:07:00.000-08:002008-01-13T04:38:10.862-08:00Zimbabwe and the Jacob Zuma factorAS SOUTH Africa and indeed President Thabo Mbeki digests and reflects on Jacob Zuma’s victory as the president of Africa’s oldest political party, the African National Congress (ANC), there is no doubt that the political actors in Zimbabwe are also challenged by the implications of a Zuma presidency underpinned by strong support by President Mugabe’s strongest and most vocal critics i.e. COSATU AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-59792939016117068162007-12-17T08:16:00.000-08:002008-01-13T04:38:27.717-08:00The EU-Africa relationship post-colonialismTHE controversial EU-Africa summit is now history but will forever be remembered for the Brown-Mugabe debacle that at the safe signified an attempt by former colonies to negotiate a new and just post-colonial engagement with former colonial masters.Post-colonial Africa’s enduring growing pains have been opportunistically explained to be a consequence of the economically and politically unjust AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-90017438420531423892007-12-10T08:17:00.000-08:002008-01-13T04:38:42.845-08:00Beyond Lisbon: setting the African agendaTHE EU-Africa summit held in Lisbon last weekend has come and gone but Africa’s challenges will remain.For the first time, Africa came to Europe as a united block specifically more on the Zimbabwean issue than on the key issues on the agenda of the summit. The Zimbabwean stand-off that has prevented the indaba from taking place for seven years has its own historical significance and provided an AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-31683377828933029622007-12-03T08:17:00.000-08:002008-01-13T04:39:07.894-08:00Implications of Zuma winning ANC leadership raceTHE colonial state was founded on the notion that natives could not be trusted with the vote and, therefore, they had to be excluded from governance issues. The value system that underpinned the colonial state informed the constitutional order of the day.The role of the colonial state was to promote, protect and sustain the hegemony of the settler community. At the core of the colonial state was AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-67781647408684458012007-11-27T08:18:00.000-08:002008-01-13T04:40:05.308-08:00Africa's enduring economic apartheidAPARTHEID is a social and political system of racial segregation and discrimination that was popularised and institutionalised by white minority governments in South Africa for a 46 year period from 1948 through 1994.The term apartheid (from the Afrikaans word for “apartness”) was introduced in the human vocabulary in the 1930s and used as a political slogan of the National Party in the early AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-84002640343024286762007-11-18T08:18:00.000-08:002008-01-13T04:40:27.543-08:00Does indigenisation threaten law of succession?THE political destiny of Africa is now notionally in the hands of the natives in all of its states while the key economic decisions about Africa’s future continue to be made by non-Africans notwithstanding the last five decades of uhuru.The democratisation of Africa’s economic space is the enduring challenge that confronts the continent with equal measure, irrespective of the stage of economic AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-84743841591626615052007-11-11T08:19:00.000-08:002008-01-13T04:40:44.661-08:00Defining the role of the state in post-colonial AfricaTHE purpose of this article is to assess the role of the state in light of the last 50 years of post-colonial experiences.The extent of the state’s role in the transformation and development of Africa continues to be debated particularly in light of the unorthodox institutional arrangements that seem to have facilitated economic development in the East Asian economies.Post colonial African AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-85796175493397766942007-11-05T08:19:00.000-08:002008-01-13T04:41:08.918-08:00Mushore's ordeal and the New Zimbabwe we wantJAMES Mushore, one of three professionals who founded the first merchant bank controlled and managed by blacks in Zimbabwe, the National Merchant Bank of Zimbabwe (NMB), made history in 2004 when like the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo, he fled to the former colonial power, England, for fear of his life in post colonial Zimbabwe.Like Nkomo before him, Mushore is passionate about Zimbabwe and AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-76768739602627462102007-10-29T08:20:00.000-07:002008-01-13T04:41:29.293-08:00Does the rule of law pose a threat to Africa?IS IT not paradoxical that liberal democracy is constantly derided by Africa’s political elites as western and liberal while at the same time the western and liberal notion of the rule of law finds a receptive audience among the continent’s state and non-state actors?In evaluating whether the rule of law is good for Africa, one needs a working agreement on the definition of the rule of law.The AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-42432722129325377042007-10-21T08:20:00.000-07:002008-01-13T04:41:48.215-08:00Capitalism may challenge the poor, but it gives them hopeTHROUGHOUT human history, the road out of poverty has been built not by aid from developed states but by economic growth, and yet in Africa there is a prevailing logic that the rich have a responsibility to lift the poor.Post-colonial Africa has largely emerged from the womb of a race-based capitalist construction to make capitalism a contested ideology for nation building.In evaluating whether AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1116173241522578341.post-27462218065233904912007-10-14T08:21:00.000-07:002008-01-13T04:42:05.894-08:00The Africa we want: out of time?WE FIND ourselves relevant as free Africans at this historic moment to help define and shape the Africa we want. History has bestowed upon this generation -- fortunate enough to share the same sunshine with Africa’s greatest liberation heroes -- a responsibility of building a better Africa that can live up to the promise of all its peoples.We all have a valid stake in Africa’s future and yet we AfricaHeritageCorporateCouncilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502865519883402028noreply@blogger.com0