Author: Tanaka
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Your Child Is in Zimbabwe. You Can Arrange Passport Consent From Abroad.
A question about a 14-year-old’s passport draws conflicting answers about consent, fees and relatives’ roles, revealing the coordination behind family life across borders.
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If Zimbabweans Were Given the UK, Would We Need Visas Back Home?
A country-swap joke asks whether Zimbabweans would ruin the UK. The replies raise a sharper question: are people criticising leadership, or losing faith in…
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How Could We Prioritise Roll-On When I Had No Shoes?
The ridicule surrounding Zimbabweans and body odour overlooks an important history. For some people raised in poor rural households, roll-on was not rejected. It…
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Ndau in the Classroom: Must Protecting One Language Mean Removing Another?
“Anoda kuzoreketa nani chindau chakona?” Who will he speak that Ndau to? One reply supplied a short answer: “Neni.” That exchange captures something easily…
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From Gym Complaint to Xenophobic Punchline: How a Hygiene Video Became a National Insult
A video about gym hygiene triggered honest conversations about bathing, clean clothes, deodorant, affordability and men’s self-care. Then social-media amplification stripped away the original…
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Are Children a Retirement Plan? Tinashe Mutarisi Challenges “Chirere Chigokurerawo”
He called “chirere chigokurerawo” a scam. Critics said he had confused financial entitlement with the love and physical care ageing parents need. Beneath the…
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Is Black Tax Really the Problem—or Are Some Diaspora Dreams Too Expensive?
One view says repeated family requests consume the little diaspora workers could save. Another says black tax has become a convenient explanation for poor…
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Do These Tests on My Father”: Who Should Control a Parent’s Medical Care from Abroad?
Diaspora children send money for their parents’ treatment—and sometimes instructions about which tests doctors must perform. Is that responsible advocacy, disrespect for clinical expertise…
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She Left Zimbabwe at Seven. More Than 60 Years Later, She Wants to Go Back
Caron left the country of her birth as a child and has never returned. Her plan to visit Zimbabwe in 2027 prompted excitement, warnings…
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Can a Zimbabwean Marriage Be Complete Without Children?
She adores children but questions whether she wants to give birth or become a parent. Are there Zimbabwean men who would choose marriage without…