Reward Mushayabasa

African journalist with nearly 30 years experience in Africa, Asia and Europe. Fluent in Russian, Shona, and English.

[Reward Mushayabasa @Reward1960]

Book Launch & Celebration of Dr Edison Sithole….with Prof @ibbosnr Mandaza

[Reward Mushayabasa @Reward1960]

You are cordially invited to a Book Launch and Celebration hosted by Sapes Trust and HSRC Press.....with Prof @ibbosnr Mandaza

[Reward Mushayabasa @Reward1960]

Prof @ibbosnr Mandaza cordially invites you to a Book Launch and Celebration to honour Dr Edson Sithole

[Reward Mushayabasa @Reward1960]

You are cordially invited to a Book Launch and Celebration hosted by Sapes Trust and HSRC Press.....with Prof @ibbosnr Mandaza

[Reward Mushayabasa @Reward1960]

Prof @ibbosnr Mandaza cordially invites you to a book launch and Celebration to honour Edson Sithole

[Reward Mushayabasa @Reward1960]

FOR THE PUBLIC
Prof @ibbosnr Mandaza is inviting you to a scheduled online SAPES Policy Dialogue
Topic: “CAB3 and the Aftermath: What Will Happen and What should be done?”
Thursday, 18 June 2026, 17:30 CAT
Join the meeting live on YouTube:
https://t.co/mIDHOcXjWM

[Reward Mushayabasa @Reward1960]

FOR THE PUBLIC
Prof @ibbosnr is inviting you to a scheduled online SAPES Policy Dialogue
Topic: “CAB3 and the Aftermath: What Will Happen and What should be done?”
Thursday, 18 June 2026, 17:30 CAT
Join the meeting live on YouTube:
https://t.co/mIDHOcXjWM

[Reward Mushayabasa @Reward1960]

"Continent’s history? South Africa’s history, yes; the only African country afflicted by Afrophobia, what Maluleke has correctly described as the “fear and hatred of those who look like you.. and even living with and next to you..” @ibbosnr

[TheNewsHawks @NewsHawksLive]

By Dr Phillan Zamchiya
Dear Reader, some people seem shocked by the scale of the Tagwirei wedding and the concentration of political, and crony business elites around it. But to some of us, this is not new.
I remember writing in 2021, on page 142 of The Shadow State in Africa:
‘’In addition to getting tenders to supply the inputs for the military-run command agriculture programme, Sakunda Holdings [Read Tagwirei] in partnership with Trafigura, a company based in Singapore, controlled the single existing fuel pipeline in Zimbabwe from Beira to Harare. All fuel importers in Zimbabwe have to bring fuel through the pipeline and pay a levy to Sakunda Holdings, in part because Tagwirei said he invested money to repair the pipeline.
Similar to command agriculture, key figures in the shadow state backed Tagwirei in the fuel deal, including a former commander of the air force and a former head of the presidential guard.
Tagwirei was so networked within the military that ‘AT HIS FATHER’S FUNERAL [IN MAY 2018], THE WHO’S WHO IN THE ARMY ATTENDED, LEAVING THE BARRACKS WITH NO SINGLE SENIOR COMMANDER.’
Beyond controlling the fuel pipeline, Sakunda Holdings is alleged to have been given preferential treatment – including being able to offload government bonds at ‘hugely preferential rates’ – from the RBZ.’’ (Zamchiya, 2021, pg 142).
Reader, some of us have long tracked Tagwirei’s presidential ambitions within Zimbabwean political circles. But Zimbabwean succession politics are far more complex and dangerous than wealth alone.
One must simultaneously navigate popular legitimacy, shifting military alliances and hierarchies, liberation legitimacy, party factions, and international acceptability.
That is why understanding Zimbabwe requires studying the state behind the state, not just individual personalities.

[The Instigator @Am_Blujay]

Today we celebrate one of Zimbabwe’s greatest minds, Prof. Christopher J. Chetsanga 🇿🇼🧬

At 90 years old, Prof. Chetsanga remains a giant in African science — a biochemist, DNA repair pioneer, UNESCO Gold Medal winner, and member of both the African Academy of Sciences and The World Academy of Sciences.

His discoveries in DNA repair enzymes changed global scientific understanding and proved that Africa continues to produce world-class brilliance.

Africa must honour its scholars while they are still with us. 👏🏾

[Ibbo D Mandaza @ibbosnr]

@AdvoBarryRoux Continent’s history?
South Africa’s history, yes; the only African country afflicted by Afrophobia, what Maluleke has correctly described as the “fear and hatred of those who look like you.. and even living with and next to you..”

[Reward Mushayabasa @Reward1960]

"We @ibbosnr wish to put it on the record that: the President has not conducted himself as a constitutionalist. CAB3 is a personal and political project of a cabal. Its passage serves narrow individual interests, not the national interest." - Air Marshal Henry Muchena (Retired)

[Reward Mushayabasa @Reward1960]

Prof @ibbosnr Mandaza is inviting you to an online SAPES Policy Dialogue

Topic: “The Land Question in Zimbabwe: The Implications of the Uchena Report and the BIPPA farms.”

Thursday, 28 May 2026, 17:30 CAT

Join the meeting live on YouTube:

https://t.co/7JtIK74hPV

[Reward Mushayabasa @Reward1960]

FOR THE PUBLIC
Prof @ibbosnr is inviting you to a SAPES Policy Dialogue
Topic: “The Implications of the Uchena Report and the BIPPA farms on the current economic situation in Zimbabwe.”
Thursday, 28 May 2026, 17:30 CAT
Join the meeting live on YouTube:
https://t.co/7JtIK74hPV

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

Absolutely unbelievable. The man is a legend.

[Radha Tripathi @Radha_AI]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[TheNewsHawks @NewsHawksLive]

Dr Tinashe Hofisi, a Zimbabwean human rights lawyer and legal scholar currently serving as a Research Fellow at the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia, recently joined an interesting debate on Constitutional Amendment Bill N0.3 with Professor Jonathan Moyo.
The debate was organised by the Southern African Times and run in full by The NewsHawks.
Hofisi's work primarily focuses on constitutional law, judicial design, and enforcement of human rights in Africa.
He is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Virginia School of Law and the Karsh Institute of Democracy.
Previously, he was a Hauser Global Fellow at New York University.
Before his academic career in the United States, Hofisi spent seven years as a human rights lawyer with Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, specialising in constitutional litigation.

[Reward Mushayabasa @Reward1960]

FOR THE PUBLIC
Prof @ibbosnr Mandaza is inviting you to a scheduled online SAPES Policy Dialogue

Topic: “Analysing and Confronting the Scourge of Afrophobia/Xenophobia in South Africa.”

Thursday, 14 May 2026, 17:30 CAT

Join the meeting live on YouTube:
https://t.co/VuIYLWUgyM

[Reward Mushayabasa @Reward1960]

FOR THE PUBLIC
Prof @ibbosnr Mandaza is inviting you to a SAPES Policy Dialogue

Topic: Do we need a National Dialogue, and if so, what should be the focus and form of a National Dialogue?”

Thursday, 30 April 2026, 17:30 CAT

Join the meeting on YouTube:
https://t.co/53F6Tck2Hd