Sticks and stones – and shaming – discourages women from contesting elections.
Imraan Coovadia’s new book connects the programmes of poisoning in Rhodesia and South Africa in five essays about the circumstances and men at the centre of their making
A full 41 years after ‘freedom’, many Zimbabweans still strive for what they sought then – the enjoyment of their fundamental human rights and freedoms
Kembo Mohadi resigned this week after allegedly conducting not one but two extramarital affairs while in office
Sibusiso Moyo, the third Zimbabwean minister to die from the virus, was a potential successor to the president
COMMENT: Opposition candidates and party can increase their chances of success at the polls by putting aside minor differences and presenting a united front
Many of them end up in Chikurubi prison where the cells are cold, the blankets are filthy and the toilets are in the crowded cells
ANC officials’ ‘taxi’ ride in an SANDF jet to Zimbabwe is further evidence that more transparency is needed in the military
Desperate people mine the mineral, but it is ‘untouchable big people’, including top state officials, who reap the real benefits
Tawanda Muchehiwa is one of dozens of Zimbabweans who have been kidnapped and tortured by unidentified armed men
Social media is driving a new – largely anonymous – form of protest in Zimbabwe and Zambia
Zimbabwean opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume on Wednesday was granted bail at his fourth attempt since being detained on July 20 for calling protests against corruption
Remembering Patson Dzamara, the Zimbabwean activist who never stopped searching for his brother
Zimbabwe called its coup a military-assisted transition to sidestep sanctions. Mali is doing the same. But failing to call power grabs by their name makes it harder to defend democracy
The Bertelsmann Transformation Index Africa Report 2020, A Changing of the Guards or A Change of Systems?, suggests that we should be cautious about the prospects for rapid political improvements
The pattern is now well established: crisis, intervention, promises by the Zanu-PF regime to behave, and then relapse after a decent interval to the sort of behaviour that prompted the latest crisis in the first place.
The rumour mill can shape politics — and reveal uncomfortable truths
Emmerson Mnangagwa has accused ‘dark forces’ of destabilising the country
Campaigners urge Zimbabweans to unfollow the president on Twitter
Hopewell Chin’ono recently published a series of Facebook posts that outline alleged connections between President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s son and a company that was awarded tender to supply equipment to prevent the spread of Covid-19
Pretoria can make a real difference in helping to solve conflicts and other issues in Burundi, the DRC, South Sudan and Zimbabwe
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the situation in Zimbabwe could not have been much worse
For now, residents of Harare have more immediate worries
Even the better off have had to find ways to manage in the shattered economy
Initial enthusiasm for President Mnangagwa’s ‘new dispensation’ is waning – and Zimbabwe has lots of work to do to win back the trust of its citizens
Far from representing a break from the past, the opposition leader is reinforcing patriarchal norms in his behaviour towards women
Strikes by medical professionals are the only language the Mnangagwa regime seems to understand
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association said Peter Magombeyi had not been heard from since Saturday
How an autocratic strain of pan-Africanism of the early 1960s sheds light on Mugabe’s seemingly contradictory roles
A brutal crackdown has left critics of the government fearing for their lives and afraid to speak out
Former Zimbabwean Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko says he is afraid of being abducted and poisoned by state agents
Zimbabwe has gone from bad to worse since longtime autocrat Robert Mugabe was toppled