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
Hopewell Chin’ono backed President Emmerson Mnangagwa when he succeeded Robert Mugabe. Now he’s in jail
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
Mnangagwa, 76, who took over from long-time autocrat Robert Mugabe, went into the July 30 2018 elections vowing to revive Zimbabwe’s sickly economy
The crisis-hit country is facing another bout of sharply rising prices, with official inflation now at nearly 100 per cent
Chidhumo was Zim’s most notorious felon, so why has popular culture lionised him?
Exhumations of Gukurahundi graves risk destroying vital clues about the extent of the massacre and who was responsible
Zimbabwe will start paying partial compensation to white farmers after 4 000 were stripped of their land under former president Robert Mugabe
The eastern district of Chimanimani was worst-hit, with houses and most of the region’s bridges washed away by flash floods