Factions in Zanu-PF are using the previously ineffective corruption commission to fight internal battles.
In the lead up to Zimbabwe’s elections scheduled for July 2013, Zanu-PF and the MDC have intensified intimidation attempts and campaigning efforts.
Zimbabwe’s controversial indigenisation programme, pummelled by increasing allegations of corruption, has for the first time come under scrutiny.
Zimbabwe will proceed with a constitutional referendum despite the chaotic preparations and problems that has plagued its drafting.
Officials claim President Robert Mugabe is calling in favours he granted to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai – at the MDC’s expense.
Indigenisation Minister Saviour Kasukuwere and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono are locked in a battle over indigenisation policy.
Zimbabwe’s hospitals are being forced to carry out fundraising activities to keep afloat owing to low budget disbursements from the finance ministry.
We look back at those who died in 2012.
The festival aims to survey what is being written in and about South Africa, its society and people.
The University of Cape Town has conferred an honorary doctor of literature on novelist, playwright and academic Zakes Mda.