As it prepares for elections, new divides are emerging in Zimbabwe’s ruling party
Assessing whether or not the country’s ongoing election preparations comply with the SADC guidelines is not an easy task
Zimbabwe has high hopes for a post-Mugabe era, but it has some serious growing pains to deal with first
The pan-African magazine marks the
end of the Mugabe era as a moment of
imaginative, if not political, liberation.
Many white farmers were forced off the land by aggressive land redistribution policies and violent attacks. Now some are coming back
By disconnecting presidential terms from electoral cycles, ruling parties in Botswana and South Africa preserve the ‘incumbency effect’
The recent ascendance of President Ramaphosa to the highest echelons of political power has largely been positively received locally and abroad
Mujuru has promised to track down missing Mugabe critic Itai Dzamara
Child labour and other rights abuses on Zimbabwe’s tobacco farms
Robert Mugabe pioneered Zimbabwe’s ‘Look East’ policy – and his successor is just as enthusiastic about China
A new breed of African freedom fighter is emerging, challenging authoritarianism with pure ideas that seek nothing but progress through liberty
Twenty-thousand Zimbabweans were slaughtered in a brutal purge of Mugabe’s perceived opponents. Mnangagwa played a role in organising the crackdown
Three years and one regime later, Itai Dzamara’s family is still waiting for information about his fate
It became clear that the freedoms we hoped would follow independence have been taken away by our own government
New president’s efforts to stimulate economy, attract foreign investment and curb corruption elicit mixed reviews.
The children, who were found by police in Rustenburg last year, will be repatriated to Zimbabwe because it is in the children’s best interests
The US president has reportedly "extended sanctions against Zimbabwe for another year"
These four words have white South Africans reaching for their passports quicker than news that Mumford and Sons are going to be playing
The recent leadership crisis in Zimbabwe’s main opposition has been exacerbated by the struggle to locate the party’s latest constitution
‘Now that the deal is done, we can reveal some of the negotiating positions taken by the former president during the Zexit process’
Ironically, Morgan Tsvangirai’s strategy of dealing with opponents within his Movement for Democratic Change echoed that of his nemesis, Robert Mugabe
There is no way we can ever tell the post-independence story of Zimbabwe without mentioning Morgan Tsvangirai as a major cog. He moved an era.
With Zim holding elections this year, the opposition had been feeling cautiously optimistic— until its arch-enemy, Mugabe, was ousted from power
Encouraged by the positive sentiment of recent weeks, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe now predicts 4% GDP growth in 2018.
Moyo also said that the new government under Mnangagwa was an "illegal regime" that had struggled to assert its legitimacy.
One in four Zimbabweans suffers from mental illness, but untrained female health workers are setting a new benchmark for the treatment of patients.
The Rwandan model can’t be replicated easily given that it depends heavily on political dominance and tight, centralised control of patronage networks
Mnangagwa has no option but to tackle land reform if he’s serious about getting Zimbabwe’s economy back on track.
True democratisation – as opposed to merely maintaining the procedural forms of democratic government – is anathema to Zimbabwe’s ruling party
In Harare the fates of trees and people seem to be intertwined
An underground operative challenges many established views about important aspects of the struggle
As deliverers of Zimbabwe’s Independence from Britain in 1980, war veterans wield symbolic political and moral power in the country