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Oligarchic power: Zimbabwe’s state is not reformed but captured, its sovereignty traded for elite permanence.

Zimbabwe’s patronage web:  How oligarchs captured the State

To sustain this order, ZANU-PF deploys propaganda with ruthless precision, deflecting blame onto sanctions and the opposition while sanctifying corruption as a patriotic duty

The presidency has defended President Cyril Ramaphosa’s recent working visit to Zimbabwe. (@ZimLive/X)

‘Just a meeting, nothing else,’ says the presidency of Ramaphosa’s Zimbabwe visit

The presidency has rejected DA criticism over President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Zimbabwe visit

Are they furniture? Zimbabwe at 46 and Africa’s curse of permanent officials

Our leaders are not furniture. Furniture does not loot diamonds, mismanage treasuries or unleash militias. Furniture does not cling to power with brazen arrogance. But in…

Mr Moneybags: Wicknell Chivayo is the poster boy of the young
nouveau riche flaunting their wealth in Zimbabwe. Photo: Facebook

Sir Wicknell: Zim businessman ties his fortunes to Mnangagwa

The president had denied that Wicknell Chivayo has been dolling out lavish gifts on his behalf

Invest: Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote met Zimbabwean President
Emmerson Mnangagwa to discuss business prospects.

Nigeria’s Dangote offers Zimbabwe hope

But ordinary Zimbabweans driven to cynicism after years of state corruption under the ruling Zanu-PF party are pessimistic

Aliko Dangote, Africa’s wealthiest entrepreneur and founder of the Dangote Group  met with Zimbabwe President Emmerson D. Mnangagwa at the State House to discuss significant investment prospects in cement production, coal mining, and power generation.  (ZanuPFOfficial/X)

Dangote plans transnational pipeline across Southern Africa

The project could change the production structure of Zimbabwe, with fuel landing at a lesser cost

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Photo: Supplied

Heads roll at Zimbabwe’s power utility over Mnangagwa Sona blackout

Investigations point to a circuit breaker failure, however, foul play is suspected

Former late Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe. (Wikimedia Commons)

Robert Mugabe’s children navigate life without first family privilege

The fall of the Zimbabwean veteran leader in November 2017 and his death two years later had a negative impact on his then relatively young children

Under the sanctions law, the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001, the US Secretary of the Treasury votes against any new loans, credits or debt relief for the Zimbabwean government from international financial institutions. (Shuttershock)

US Republicans propose bill on removal of Zimbabwe sanctions

If the Department of State Policy Provisions Act is passed into law, the US will support Zimbabwe borrowing money from international lenders such as the World Bank

Zimbabwe’s monetary system is marked by a farcical series of failed experiments. Photo: Getty Images

Zimbabwe: Why does the state persist when its outputs are poverty, violence and humiliation

After 45 years of independence, issues such as the disintegration of the country’s monetary system are illustrative of the crisis.

In a fix: Services in the capital Harare are stretched or broken. Transfers of funds from the national government are low and revenue collection by local government is curtailed. (Mustafa Kamaci/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Harare’s fiscal paradox: A devolved city starved of resources

By law, powers and functions are devolved to local government but the ruling Zanu-PF’s ideology is to control municipalities

Mnangagwa addresses the National Competitiveness Commission Inaugural Summit 2025 in February. (Photo:@edmnangagwa/X)

Will Mnangagwa actually step down? Some in his own party are sceptical

At rallies and funerals, Zanu-PF youths have been chanting his nickname and holding banners demanding he remain in office beyond 2028

Zimbabwean police dispersing people at an intersection in Chitungwiza in August 2023, to prevent what they considered an illegal gathering. (Zinyange Auntony / AFP)

Editorial: SA fails all of us over Zimbabwe abuses

We were proud of the country when it went to the International Court of Justice over Israel’s genocide in Gaza, but it fails to speak out about ongoing oppression by Harare

Brutal: Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has launched a crackdown on any opposition to Zimbabwe’s chairmanship of the SADC summit. (Frennie Shivambu/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Complicit in repression: SADC fails to confront Zimbabwe’s human rights crisis

The actions of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government are meant to instil fear, suppress dissent and keep a tight hold on power

Standing firm: Limpopo premier Phophi Ramathuba won’t remove an MEC linked to the bank scandal and won’t walk back her comment about Zimbabweans receiving healthcare in South Africa. Photo: Frennie Shivambu/Gallo

Limpopo premier won’t act on MEC over bank heist

The Limpopo premier wants a clampdown on the flow of illegal immigrants into the province