You are probably corrupt. Here is why. In the last twelve months you probably have done one of the following. You probably have, on more than one occasion, bribed a traffic cop who pulled you over for speeding. You had no qualms parting with a facilitation fee (http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-02-12-getting-a-licence-can-drive-you-to-corruption) to a driving instructor in return for […]
Jeremiah Kure
Jeremiah Kure is a professional working in the corporate governance arena, based in Johannesburg. He is the founder of the Heights We Must Climb movement and a firm believer in a progressive Africa; an Africa not tied to her stereotyped past but one that is steadily reclaiming her dignity and potential in the global space.
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Zim: A second liberation?
If you are in the 30-plus age bracket, chances are, you will not see Zimbabwe rise again in your lifetime. Now before you accuse me of being an unfeeling pessimist, I am not by any means suggesting that Zimbabwe will never recover. I am merely asserting that a return to the former glory days is […]
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Zim must regain sense of outrage
If you are in the 30-plus age bracket, chances are, you will not see Zimbabwe rise again in your lifetime. Now before you accuse me of being an unfeeling pessimist, I am not by any means suggesting that Zimbabwe will never recover. I am merely asserting that based on the multi-faceted dynamics which have shaped […]
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It stinks to high heaven…
The hypocrisy of the West that is what — particularly the type exhibited by the US. The leaked slew of military documents on the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks this week, was another stark reminder of the two-faced nature of Americans, who it seems, have become quite adept at the practice of preaching one thing and doing […]
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Towards a legacy befitting a post-world cup South Africa
One of my failings as an Optimist is that I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of people, particularly those who are entrusted to lead others. But having spent a little over three decades in this world, I realise that I am slowly losing my look-on-the-bright-side outlook as more and more I […]
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Towards a legacy befitting a post-World Cup SA
One of my failings as an optimist is that I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of people, not least those who are entrusted to lead others. Having spent just slightly over three decades in this world, I realise that I am slowly losing my look-on-the-bright-side outlook as more and more I […]
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Blood milk
What is the colour of milk these days? Red maybe? It is white of course, unless your supplies are flowing straight out of Grace Mugabe’s dairy farm, so says the rabid press and thousands of citizens of that cyberspace community known as Facebook. Zimbabwe’s first lady has in recent weeks been the subject of her […]
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Close the border
Last weekend I made my customary annual road trip up north to Zambia through Zimbabwe. Starting off at the crack of dawn, it was a glorious drive on the N1 during that time of early morning when the breaking light of a new day slowly takes over a landscape wrapped in the fading darkness. With […]
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Exiled Zimbabweans should return home
At a time when Zimbabwe should be experiencing a brain gain, its brain drain shows no sign of abetting. At least not just yet. It is naive to have expected aspiring Zimbabweans blessed with what used to be some of the continent’s most illustrious education, to have stayed on in the country when things were […]
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On the set of ‘Uprising 2012’
It was a daring mission; unprecedented in its audacity and ferocity. At 04.37am, the precision missiles were launched from an unpiloted aircraft flying somewhere over the Ozurenje valley. They swiftly streaked through the fading darkness at almost twice the speed of sound over a distance of 1 955 kilometres, across three countries with coordinates homing in […]
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The enduring liabilities of a dictatorship
Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai now contends that the world should get over President Robert Mugabe. If his recent comments on the matter are to be believed, it confirms that Zimbabwe’s many problems are likely to endure long after Mugabe is gone. Reading between the lines, one gets the sense that Mugabe’s rule has produced […]
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A state of heart
I see Moammar Gadaffi, the leader of Libya, has weighed in with an op-ed piece on the raging Israeli-Palestinian crisis and you can read it in full here. In it he argues for a one-state solution — “Isratine” — which he argues, “would allow the people in each party to feel that they live in […]