Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Dec 4, 2011, 3:23 pm
The Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU PF) national people’s conference begins in Bulawayo on the 6th of December 2011. This has been dubbed a mini ‘congress’ as fundamental structural changes are expected to take place within the leadership at the top. These changes are...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Oct 21, 2011, 5:22 am
On the 18th of October, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Tripoli, Libya. She stated in unusually blunt terms that she would like to see ‘Mummar Gaddaffi dead’. Two days later she got her wish. Mummar Gaddafi was bombed by NATO aeroplanes as he attempted to leave Sirte and ...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Jun 13, 2011, 5:37 pm
The SADC summit to discuss the political impasse in Zimbabwe held in Sandton, South Africa has come and gone. The three political parties in the Global Political Agreement Zimbabwe went to the SADC summit with different demands and expectations. The Tsvangirai MDC-T political party with the backing ...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Jun 1, 2011, 9:01 pm
Social networks have become the new platform for Zimbabweans domiciled in various countries around the world to pool their thoughts, opinions and arguments together as the quest for a new Zimbabwe narrative slowly begins to take shape. Zimbabwe is a country which many consider to be between a rock a...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Apr 17, 2011, 11:41 am
As Zimbabwe celebrates its 31st birthday, it’s now almost fifteen years since Claire Short wrote that infamous letter that saw Britain refuse to fulfill a commitment to pay for the land redistribution from white farmers to black indigenous Zimbabweans. In the letter to Zimbabwe's Agriculture and L...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Mar 14, 2011, 5:27 pm
On the 25th of August 2008, Zimbabwe’s legislatures voted to elect a Parliamentary speaker to preside over the August house. The significance of this election was that it ushered in Love more Moyo, Zimbabwe’s first speaker from the opposition bench since independence in 1980. He received 110 vot...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Nov 23, 2010, 6:47 pm
Zimbabwean Politics is dynamic as Zimbabweans at home and abroad have come to appreciate. The return of ZAPU into the epicentre of the Zimbabwean body politic has not only upset those that thought they had everything in the bag in upcoming elections in which they had only one challenger, a...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Nov 15, 2010, 7:14 pm
Herbert Wiltshire Chitepo (15 June 1923 - 18 March 1975) led the Zimbabwe African National Union until he was assassinated on March 1975. Although to this day we still do not know the truth about who his murderer was, the Rhodesian author Peter Stiff reveals that a former British SAS soldier, Hugh H...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Oct 23, 2010, 10:02 pm

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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Oct 9, 2010, 12:43 pm
The one permanent feature of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex and the inexplicable. Barely a month has gone by since ZAPU held its National Congress at the Bulawayo Trade fair grounds and the Morgan Tsvangirai MDC-T formation is already showing signs of fear and fatigue. Y...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Oct 8, 2010, 8:06 pm
Born on June 17, 1918 to black missionary teachers in the arid Semokwe reserve of south west Matebeleland, he was educated in South Africa. It was when he was studying in South Africa that he met some of the influential leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) whose ideas influenced and sharpe...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Oct 4, 2010, 7:19 pm
       
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Sep 28, 2010, 7:59 pm
Jonah is the name given in the bible to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel, about the 8th century BC. In the book of Jonah, he is ordered by God to go the city of Nineveh to prophesy against their wickedness that was not pleasing to God. Jonah instead flees from the presence of the Lord by ...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Sep 19, 2010, 12:16 pm
In Act 2, Scene 2 of one of William Shakespeare’s well known plays, Hamlet, set in the Kingdom of Denmark. Polonius, a character in the play and the King’s chief counsellor asks Hamlet the Prince of Denmark who was exhibiting strange behavioural traits: “What is the matter, my lord? Between w...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Sep 15, 2010, 7:00 pm
Zimbabweans seem to have developed amnesia over the real reasons why ZAPU (Zimbabwe African People’s Union) entered into the unity accord of 22nd December 1987. ZAPU was the main nationalistic party that waged the war of liberation against the Rhodesian racist colonial regime. It was formed in 196...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Sep 10, 2010, 9:19 pm
“We are enveloped in the politics of hate. The amount of hate that is being preached today in this country is frightful. What Zimbabwe fought for was peace, progress, love, respect, justice, equality, not the opposite. And one of the worst evils we see today is corruption. The country bleeds today...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Aug 23, 2010, 4:30 pm
Lloyd Msipa is a Zimbabwean Lawyer and Politician. He was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.He is married with children. He studied political science at the University of Zimbabwe, studied law at Thames Valley University, London United Kingdom (LLB (Hons). He also holds a Master of Laws degree in Internati...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Aug 16, 2010, 7:19 pm
The Zimbabwe government through the inclusive government is currently carrying out rigorous outreach programs in Zimbabwe and abroad over the contents of the new proposed Zimbabwe Constitution. The proposed draft constitution will be presented as referendum to the people of Zimbabwe who will choose ...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - May 27, 2010, 12:37 pm
ZIMBABWEANS are on the verge of writing a new Constitution. The last substantive Constitution of Zimbabwe was the Lancaster House Constitution. It was foisted on the country through a rigorous process of negotiations and compromises between our former colonisers and our then new crop of leaders that...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - May 17, 2010, 3:42 pm
In a recent radio interview in Tanzania, the Deputy Prime minister Professor Arthur Mutambara decried the mediocrity that characterizes African politics in general and Zimbabwe in particular. His assessment of the African political landscape could not have been far from the truth. In fact this obser...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Apr 26, 2010, 8:24 pm
I read Senator Gutu's note on empowerment and land redistribution published elsewhere.In his opening paragraph he states that "A people who do not own and control their natural resources and thus control their means of production is an oppressed people"....I could not agree with him more. Zimbabwean...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Apr 15, 2010, 6:21 pm
I listened to a program recently whereby some Zimbabweans who have failed or refused to buy into the idea of inclusivity as represented by the Government of National Unity (GNU) in Zimbabwe, were making idiotic suggestions on the subject of the lifting of sanctions on the people of Zimbabwe as repre...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Jan 3, 2010, 1:50 pm
The major political party on the Zimbabwe political scene, the Zimbabwe African National Union -Patriotic Front (ZANU PF) recently held its 5th national congress in Harare, Zimbabwe. There were a few leadership changes in the upper echelons of the political party. Of notable significance was the ele...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Jan 3, 2010, 1:50 pm
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Oct 19, 2009, 8:01 pm
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Oct 19, 2009, 8:01 pm
Introduction The land redistribution exercise in Zimbabwe has introduced a new dimension in the interpretation of international law, treaty law and general legal norms under domestic law. What has been controversial has been the interpretation by the different schools of thought as they seek to addr...
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Oct 3, 2009, 7:19 pm
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Lloyd Msipa posted an article on LLOYD MSIPA'S BLOG - Oct 3, 2009, 7:19 pm
Zimbabweans are on the verge of writing a new Constitution for Zimbabwe. The last substantive Constitution of Zimbabwe was the Lancaster House Constitution. It was foisted on the country through a rigorous process of negotiations and compromises between our former colonisers and our then new crop of...
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