Video footage from Zimbabwe reveals how the process of drafting a new Constitution in a poverty-struck nation is often fraught with violence and intimidation.
With Zimbabwe’s largest foreign investors having fallen in line with the country’s indigenisation policy
The death of John Landa Nkomo, Zimbabwe’s vice-president and founding member of PF-Zapu, has revived discussions surrounding the 1987 Unity Accord.
Zimbabwe’s annual inflation rate eased to 2.91% in December, down from 2.99% the previous month due to reduced food and clothing costs.
Zimbabwe’s police have arrested and charged a director of a human rights organisation for alleged election fraud.
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights claims that there appears to be a police hit squad that is killing criminal suspects in custody.
Elections and referendum are on hold as officials squabble, but issues will hopefully be resolved soon, writes Ray Ndlovu.
Zimbabwe, which is struggling to clear international debt of $11-billion, is about to join about 40 other nations as a highly-indebted poor country.
The region has revamped its strategy for stability but 2013 will be the ultimate test of its muscle,, writes Webster Zambara.
Politics is not about persuasion, it is about forcing people to shout allegiance at the barrel of a gun, says Chenjerai Hove.
The chairman of Zimbabwe’s human rights commission, appointed to help curb rights violations, has quit citing inhibiting laws and lack of resources.
Zanu-PF will use empowerment to win votes, but may be hamstrung by the sorry state of its coffers.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Saturday called on his Zanu-PF party to begin mobilising and fight like a "wounded beast".
The Zimbabwe government has seized the farm of late former white minority leader Ian Smith, listing it "for compulsory acquisition for resettlement."
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has vowed to overhaul business laws to require 100% black ownership of firms, up from 51%.
All except Robert Mugabe must step aside for the youth if the party is to stand a chance in the poll, writes Kennedy Maposa.
The Movement for Democratic Change has released what it calls "juice" – the jobs, upliftment, investment, capital and environment plan.
A UN-mandated watchdog has agreed to end monitoring controls on Zimbabwe’s diamond trade, after the government allayed concerns over Marange mines.
Zanu-PF and the MDC have been accused of protecting existing candidates at the expense of newcomers.
The Southern African Development Community’s decision to scrap its regional court was inevitable, says Laurie Nathan.
Rights groups have voiced fears that Zimbabwean authorities would launch a crackdown on rights activists ahead of a referendum and the 2013 elections.
Zanu-PF’s bid to make inroads into the church to garner votes for next year’s election has suffered a major setback.
Julius Malema has advised Sasco’s SRC leaders at the University of Limpopo not to live expensive lifestyles while in office.
Tongaat Hulett’s sugar operations in Zimbabwe comprise the wholly owned Triangle Sugar operation and its 50.3% holding in Hippo Valley Estates.
Western retailers could be forced to source their diamonds elsewhere to protect their businesses, writes Alan Martin.
A conference on Zimbabwe’s diamonds has showed widening divisions in the Kimberley Process, the global diamond certification group.
Cash-strapped Zimbabwe is selling its diamonds to few takers at give-away prices as most foreign buyers shun the isolated country.
Zimbabweans, weary of mounting economic troubles, are lapping up the latest instalment in the private life of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
Zanu-PF hopes the mining company’s concession to empowerment will help the party score political points in the country.
Police in Zimbabwe have detained three staffers from a human rights group in a crackdown on non-governmental organisations, say lawyers.
Zanu-PF’s tactic of allowing illegal settlements in a bid for votes has come back to haunt the party, writes Jason Moyo.
Mandebvu, in central Durban, is home to 55 Zimbabwean men who pay R30 a day in rent to live there, sharing five bathrooms and seven toilets.