http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ en Vox Wed, 21 May 2008 20:24:55 +0200 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/dead.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Comrade Fatso) http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/dead.html?_c=feed-rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/dead.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 21 May 2008 20:24:55 +0200 Dead. A cold body in a mortuary. That’s how they found Tonde today. Abducted last week, he was tortured and beaten to death. An inspiring, young township freedom fighter whose words were in my ears last week, his breathing body in my eyes. Today ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/dead.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00fae8bb8701000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/we-have-a-date.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Comrade Fatso) http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/we-have-a-date.html?_c=feed-rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/we-have-a-date.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 19 May 2008 20:26:47 +0200 So now we have a date. June 27th. This means the limbo is over. It also means that the violence is going to rage beyond belief. It already is. Over 40 opposition activists killed, thousands displaced, 87 year-old women beaten to death. It seems th... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/we-have-a-date.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00fa9676f4b60003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/space-fillers.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Comrade Fatso) http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/space-fillers.html?_c=feed-rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/space-fillers.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:04:46 +0200 The streets are empty. The state has retreated. So has the opposition. All we are left with are their torn posters, pasted over each other in a confusing collage of symbols and slogans. We also have their space-fillers. Riot police aimlessly wal... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/space-fillers.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00e398f2f1f10005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/steps.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Comrade Fatso) http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/steps.html?_c=feed-rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/steps.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:35:17 +0200 "We used to respect him. But we don't any more", says the old taxi driver. "Mugabe should have left power and been a hero like Mandela", he continues,"Now there's no food, no fuel. He's fucked it up." Everyone in South Africa has an opinion on ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/steps.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00f48d0d90c40001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/egoli.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Comrade Fatso) http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/egoli.html?_c=feed-rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/egoli.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:25:10 +0200 Fast, arrogant, blind, seductive. This is Egoli, Johannesburg. The City of Gold. Attracting hordes of Southern African moths with its sensual shine. Prosperity lives here. So does poverty. It's a city that has a passionate night with you and then ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/egoli.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00e398f010d00005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/things-stand-still.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Comrade Fatso) http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/things-stand-still.html?_c=feed-rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/things-stand-still.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:27:05 +0200 Hope easily becomes frustration. People’s dreams are daily being butchered into a nightmare. The dream of last week becomes the agony of this week. A week is a short time in politics. Here in Zimbabwe we have learnt that in the most painful wa... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/things-stand-still.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00e398eeda1b0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/the-blank-billboards.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Comrade Fatso) http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/the-blank-billboards.html?_c=feed-rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/the-blank-billboards.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:33:59 +0200 The billboards are blank. Like the people’s faces. Everything seems to have stopped. Billboards that used to be megaphones for products now become the products of politics. They are littered around the city. Huge metallic creations that proclai... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/the-blank-billboards.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00e398ee93080005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/bread-milk-and-toilet-paper.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Comrade Fatso) http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/bread-milk-and-toilet-paper.html?_c=feed-rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/bread-milk-and-toilet-paper.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:50:23 +0200 Torn posters of presidential candidates on durawalls. At every intersection. At every street corner. It feels like something from the past, from another era. But this is the era we are in now. Still hanging on the sun-soaked slogans of these rippe... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/bread-milk-and-toilet-paper.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00f48ceca9650003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/fear-and-limbo-in-harare.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Comrade Fatso) http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/fear-and-limbo-in-harare.html?_c=feed-rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/fear-and-limbo-in-harare.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:32:06 +0200 And now we have fear. A new, complex emotion to add to our ragged shopping basket that also holds anger, hope and anxiety. We fear that the regime may begin to end the beginnging of the end by trying to end our new beginning. We fear that the las... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/fear-and-limbo-in-harare.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00e398ede5860005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/the-anger.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Comrade Fatso) http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/the-anger.html?_c=feed-rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/the-anger.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:48:39 +0200 Winter is a refreshing month. Clean, pure skies of sunlight. No clouds. It almost feels as if Zimbabwe has cleansed itself and is starting anew. ........................................... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/the-anger.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00f48cebe74e0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p>