Tendai Ruben Mbofana is a Zimbabwe-based social justice advocate, writer, researcher, and social commentator. He has always been passionate about standing up and speaking out for the voiceless and oppressed.He has been relentless in his quest and dream of a country where all Zimbabweans enjoy their social justice.
It is said that a poor carpenter always blames his tools. The ink on the 2013 Constitution was barely dry before the surgeons of the state began their work, scalpel in hand, ready to “realign” the supreme law with the appetites of the incumbent. If you value my…
It is remarkable the lengths to which a desperate hunger for power can drive people. There is a specific kind of intellectual sleight of hand that occurs when a government official attempts to justify a radical departure from democratic norms by pointing a finger at their neighbors. If…
Fear is often the silent architect of the most outrageous political maneuvers. The ink on the 2013 Constitution, once hailed as a triumph of Zimbabwean self-determination, is being dissolved by a series of surgical strikes aimed at its very heart. If you value my social justice advocacy and…
I often wonder what future generations will think of us when they read how low we sank as a nation. In a nation that once prided itself on its high literacy rates and intellectual rigor, we have descended into a bizarre, televised theatre of the subservient. To directly…
It is dangerous when power rewrites the people’s Constitution. A constitution is the covenant between the people and those who govern, designed to restrain ambition, safeguard citizens, and ensure that leadership is earned, not seized or extended at will. To directly receive my articles please join my WhatsApp…