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As the echoes of “God rest ye merry men” fades into the distance and the last guests bid farewell, leaving you slumped in utter exhaustion before a pile of dirty dishes you may be forgiven for allowing yourself to take a few moments to reflect over the events of the year we are about to bid farewell to, just as I am doing now.
The justification for a decentralised system embodying provincial and other sub-national decision-making powers tends to be political. In Zimbabwean politics, as Bogdnor, V (2001) aptly puts it, “The issue of devolution has often been for polemic rather than reasoned analysis”.This has been the case with the Zimbabwean politics where perennial under achieving opposition parties have played the devolution card hoping to gain autonomy in regions where they thought their supporters reside. Not until ZAPU presented it. ZAPU presents devolution in a way that intends to benefit all Zimbabweans regardless of their political affiliations and tribal/ethnic background. In his earlier book Devolution, Bogdnor (1979) claims that devolution has three parts to it:
I read with bemused interest, the attack on the interview I gave to the SW Radio a couple of days ago. A mere footnote to that discourse touched upon the issue of secession. I very much look forward to this very topical issuetaking centre stage in some of our future discussions in my Party, ZAPU.
It is inevitable that one born of towering giants of parents such as Ntando had, become known only as sons or daughters of those towering giants. The mere mention of the name Lesabe brings with it the awesome and much loved giant of the struggle for Zimbabwe, and indeed the whole of Africa, our beloved late heroine, mamaThenjiweLesabe.
FIRST it was Simon Khaya Moyo, then Cain Ginyilitshe Ndabazekhaya Mathema and then John Landa Nkomo. It is too much and the people of Matabeleland must take their pens and computers and defend themselves from these shameless later-day Enos Nkalas masquerading as leaders of the region.
