This is Tafi: July 2017

Friday 28 July 2017

The Next Big Crisis In The Congo

DR Congo made headlines this year as it topped the charts for the world’s highest number of people fleeing conflict internally.

Zimbabwe’s ruling party is now grabbing power from its Constitutional Court.

MSF Sounds Alarm Over High Numbers of People Dying from AIDS in Africa

NEW YORK/PARIS, JULY 27, 2017—An unacceptably high number of people from sub-Saharan Africa have been left out of the global HIV response—without access to treatment or medical care—and they continue to develop and die from AIDS-related diseases, according to data released by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) at the International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Science in Paris Tuesday.

Responding to the UK government’s commitment to ban all new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040, Mark Dummett, Business and Human Rights Researcher at Amnesty International, said:

“This is good news for the environment and for air quality, but drivers should be aware that while electric cars may be green, they’re not always clean.

On Tuesday night, unidentified assailants burned down a bar in Harare owned by Elias Mudzuri, the deputy president of Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, MDC-T.

Jestina Mukoko and the curious case of a dream deferred in Zimbabwe

How could we not have fallen in love with Jestina Mukoko when she worked at the ZBC?

Gukurahundi and the silent cries and whispers behind hatred, death and disunity

The only time I saw Eddison Zvobgo in the flesh I was on my way to Rezende Bus Terminus to catch a bus home on a busy Friday afternoon in 1992.

Prove Them Wrong: Fadzayi Mahere

In a nation baffled by the laughable actions of the former Teflon Don of Manicaland, Didymus Mutasa, who believes Zimbabwe owes him a few luxury vehicles, a multimillion dollar mansion, a blank cheque, school fees and pocket money for his children – as a retirement package for the highly rewarding times he spent working in Parliament and government – let us step back and reflect on the roles of Members of Parliament.

In a nation baffled by the laughable actions of the former Teflon Don of Manicaland - Didymus Mutasa - who believes Zimbabwe owes him a few luxury vehicles, a multimillion dollar mansion, a blank cheque, school fees and pocket money for his children – as a retirement package for the highly rewarding times he spent working in Parliament and government – let us step back and reflect on the roles of Members of Parliament.

Commissioner Chihuri and Justice Makarau: Will Zimbabwe Ever Be Big Enough For Big Dreamers?

I developed problems with my left front wheel about nine hours into my journey from Johannesburg to Harare.

Zimbabwean Exiles: Life In The Valley Between Starvation And Desperate Poverty

A fresh wave of reluctant economic exiles from across the Limpopo River now calls South Africa home. And burrowed deep within a five-kilometre radius of one nondescript shopping mall situated in the heart of Gauteng Province stands an unpleasant demonstration of radical economic empowerment in Zimbabwe gone wrong.

General Chiwenga: The Last Action Hero In Silobela, Mount Pleasant And Tsholotsho

My youthful soul bled profusely after my cousin had landed at Manyame Airbase in Harare badly injured and precariously close to his last day on earth.

General Constantino Chiwenga: The Last Action Hero In Silobela, Muzarabani And Tsholotsho

My youthful soul bled profusely after my cousin had landed at Manyame Airbase in Harare badly injured and precariously close to his last day on earth.