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Covid-19 shows what Zimbabwean nationalism means

Africa Percy Zvomuya - 31 Mar 2020

The country’s elites can no longer jet away to overseas health facilities and must now face the hospital system that could not help Zororo Makamba, a 30-year-old who died of the virus

South Africa’s lockdown may push Zimbabwe to the edge

Article Webster Zambara - 27 Mar 2020

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the situation in Zimbabwe could not have been much worse

From cholera to corona: The politics of plagues in Africa

Article Simukai Chigudu - 26 Mar 2020

What lessons can we learn for today from the 2008-09 cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe?

Zimbabwe’s Solomon Mujuru: general and nonpartisan

Africa Blessing Miles Tendi - 18 Mar 2020

Mujuru sought to professionalise Zimbabwe’s army in the 1980s; later, as an MP, he stood against partisanship. Today’s officers and politicians should follow his lead

Save Fort Hare and stop with the theatrics

Article Bongekile Macupe - 28 Feb 2020

The university with its rich history is not only the pride of the Eastern Cape but of the continent. It needs to regain its glorious status in academia and not only be in the news for unfortunate reasons

Writing rises from the ashes

Article Tinashe Mushakavanhu - 24 Jan 2020

In 1980 Zimbabwe barely had a literature scene to speak of. Independence brought with it a short-lived local publishing boom

What would Dambudzo be saying?

Article Tinashe Mushakavanhu - 24 Jan 2020

Tinashe Mushakavanhu has an imaginary conversation with Dambudzo Marechera

Africa’s ‘dinosaurs’ are dying out

Africa Alex Vines - 3 Jan 2020

Countries in political transition have very little time in which to deliver socioeconomic and political change

From Zimbabwe to Bolivia: What makes a military coup?

Africa Blessing Miles Tendi - 24 Nov 2019

When the military intervened against Mugabe in Zimbabwe in 2017, it wasn't widely called a coup. New research shows that's exactly what it was

Before re-engagement, Zimbabwe needs to regain lost trust

Africa Christopher Vandome - 18 Oct 2019

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

Who’s who on the US blacklist

Article Jacques Coetzee 1 - 17 Oct 2019

The Mail & Guardian dug through the list of more than 7 000 entries on the US Office of Foreign Assets Control’s report

African leaders prefer overseas to local health care

Africa Tebadi Mmotla - 7 Oct 2019

Medical facilities at home are seemingly not good enough for people who head African countries

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