Last Monday Africa’s top Digital Citizen Journalist, Khaya Dlanga was published in The Guest Column. His piece commemorates the renewal of his faith in this country. In Politics & Society the state of Zimbabwe was explored by two writers — Rory Short and The Soapbox editor’s Alex Matthews. And, in Life & Culture, Jean-Marc Vogt [...]
A more effective approach in Zimbabwe
Rory Short argues that it would have been far better for the MDC to have called on the
people of Zimbabwe to actively refuse, whilst ZANU-PF illegitimately clings onto power, to recognise any aspect of government as legitimate.
The mind
Jean-Marc Vogt asks whether you’ve ever considered that a problem wasn’t external but internal? That is to say: you were making it into a problem and one you would solve? And solving that problem would give you fulfilment and a justification for your existence?
Dinosaurs, coal and stirrings in the Gulf
Another week’s gone by — and it’s rather scary to think The Soapbox has been live for over a month!
Last week shadow environment minister Gareth Morgan wrote in The Guest Column about the most pressing environmental issues in new minister Buyelwa Sonjica’s in-tray. In Politics & Society, Lara Moses told us why we should celebrate [...]
I’ve become a born-again South African
Africa’s top Digital Citizen Journalist, Khaya Dlanga, writes that he’s recently become a born-again South African. His faith in this country was renewed by the debates he saw, the interest young people showed in politics for the first time. He argues that, for all its imperfections, we live in a new South Africa again.
Zimbabwe’s government of national unity is a failure
Alex Matthews argues that the MDC serves merely as a legitimising mechanism for Zanu PF’s totalitarian agenda. Little wonder, he says, that the country is still falling apart when Zanu PF shamelessly grips onto power. Stalling reforms proposed in the GNU agreement, it’s sent a clear message that it remains the party calling the shots.
