Ian
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If Manchester City lose or draw to Crystal Palace today do Arsenal automatically win the Premier League. Will Burnley give Arsenal a guard of honour?

President Trump lands in Beijing alongside Elon Musk and Jensen Huang. If this happened in Zimbabwe, it would be noise from everywhere 😩




This Man Has Been In Over 87 Movies And 33 Tv Shows And We Still Don't Know His Name


I rarely respond to posts that are malicious, intellectually dishonest, or authored from behind faceless profiles masquerading as serious commentary. What is striking here is not the critique itself, but the inability to distinguish between two completely separate discussions. My article was never intended to be a constitutional law thesis on the procedural mechanics of amending presidential election systems. It was a political and policy reflection on the merits and implications of direct versus indirect presidential elections, and whether an indirect system may, in certain contexts, better serve Zimbabwe. To attack an article for not addressing a question it never set out to answer is not intellectual rigour. It is either careless reading or deliberate misrepresentation. One would expect an award-winning journalist of Blessed’s supposed calibre to appreciate the elementary difference between a policy argument and a constitutional analysis. Conflating the two is not sophisticated criticism. It is analytical laziness dressed up as commentary. The constitutional process of effecting such a change is indeed an important discussion. It deserves its own serious and technically grounded article. Perhaps that is the article he should focus on writing instead of shadowboxing arguments that were never made @bbmhlanga

















