Bruce Magwenzi, Author at Consciousness.co.za Magazine

A critique of the Presidential Age limit in Zimbabwe

Bruce Magwenzi — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 15:17:10 +0000

On May 22, 2013, former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe signed into law the Constitution of the Republic of Zimbabwe following a constitution making process that occurred during the period of the Government of National Unity (GNU). Section 2 of the Constitution states that, “The Constitution is the supreme law of the land and any law, [...]

The post A critique of the Presidential Age limit in Zimbabwe appeared first on Consciousness.co.za Magazine.

Remembering Cde Herbert Chitepo 43 years after his assassination

Bruce Magwenzi — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:25:10 +0000

On March 18, 1975 Herbert Wiltshire Pfumaindini Chitepo, an African Nationalist and Chairman of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), a revolutionary movement that liberated Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) from white-imperialist forces, was killed by a car bomb whilst in exile in Lusaka, Zambia. Although his murderer remains unidentified, his life and legacy as a liberation [...]

The post Remembering Cde Herbert Chitepo 43 years after his assassination appeared first on Consciousness.co.za Magazine.

Compensating white farmers in Zimbabwe is a sell-out of the Chimurenga

Bruce Magwenzi — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:13:28 +0000

The land question has consistently stayed at the center of Zimbabwe’s political, economic and social development. It remains the root of the political tension between Zimbabwe and the former colonial power, Britain. The advent of European settler occupation in Zimbabwe was the genesis of the dispossession of black people from their land. The period of [...]

The post Compensating white farmers in Zimbabwe is a sell-out of the Chimurenga appeared first on Consciousness.co.za Magazine.

Land redress in South Africa, it’s either now or never

Bruce Magwenzi — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:24:58 +0000

The land question in South Africa has spun around the significant imbalances in access to and rights over land between the rightful owners that is the black majority and the white minority settlers. The underlying foundations of this disparity are ordinarily followed back to the proclamation of the Natives Land Act in June 1913, which [...]

The post Land redress in South Africa, it’s either now or never appeared first on Consciousness.co.za Magazine.