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Former president of the Citizens Coalition For Change Nelson Chamisa.

Zimbabwe: Nelson Chamisa’s exit from his party is more than just a resignation

The Citizens Coalition for Change leader’s absence has left a vacuum in opposition politics as the party unravels

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe. (Reuters)

Can citizens help themselves, or do they need the government to play God?

For liberals the world over, we believe in limited government, but the question remains: are we, as Africans, still too dependent on government?

Nelson Chamisa. File phto by Jekesai Njikizana/AFP

MDC’S Chamisa perpetrates sexism in Zimbabwe

Far from representing a break from the past, the opposition leader is reinforcing patriarchal norms in his behaviour towards women

Forty years after its adoption Africa is nowhere near achieving the promises of the African Charter. (Ziyange Auntony/AFP)

Zimbabwe: Police beat protesters as economy tanks

Zimbabwe has gone from bad to worse since longtime autocrat Robert Mugabe was toppled

Robert Mugabe led Zimbabwe after its liberation but became its oppressor. Photo: Archive

Embrace of a pan-African stranger

Robert Mugabe was once a fervent pan-Africanist, but he failed to act like one after he came to power

In late 2016, the government introduced ‘bond notes’, a kind of bearer cheque designed to address a chronic shortage of physical US dollars in the country. (Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo)

Why no one’s buying the new Zimbabwean dollar

Currencies are based on trust, and trust is in short supply

Earlier this month, the high court, petitioned by a party district official, declared that Chamisa’s appointment as party vice-president by Tsvangirai had been illegal. (Philimon Bulawawo/Reuters)

Chamisa elected unopposed as MDC leader

The Movement for Democratic Change has been plagued by infighting since Tsvangirai’s death and battered by another election defeat

Nelson Chamisa. File phto by Jekesai Njikizana/AFP

Zimbabwean court nullifies Chamisa’s appointment

Party says the decision was politically motivated

Turmoil: President Emmerson Mnangagwa was a key figure in the Gukurahundi massacres of the 1980s, in which thousands of Zimbabweans, mostly Ndebele, were killed. (Jekesai Njikizana/AFP)

The brutal crackdown in Zimbabwe creates a new generation of exiles

Political dissidents who have fled to South Africa face an uneasy, uncertain future

The current unrest takes place against the backdrop of worsening economic hardship in the country. (Zinyange Auntony/AFP)

Zimbabwe crackdown amounts to ‘crimes against humanity’, says rights group

Further turmoil in store as the economic crisis worsens and unions contemplate strike action

Zimbabwean opposition leader Nelson Chamisa. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)

Chamisa snubs Mnangagwa dialogue call

Chamisa, who insists he won last July’s presidential elections, says he’s in favour of dialogue but only talks are called by a neutral party

(Jekesai Njikizana/AFP/Getty Images)

Zimbabwe: After the crackdown, the purge

Targeted abductions and detentions are dismantling opposition to President Mnangagwa’s government

Zimbabwe president Emmerson Mnangagwa. (EPA Images)

Revolt and repression in Zimbabwe

Crisis Group’s Senior Consultant Piers Pigou explains how economic hardship is driving ordinary citizens to unprecedented acts of resistance

Following the coup, Mnangagwa and others in the regime recast themselves as reformers who had brought about the end of the Mugabe era, the hope being that biting economic and financial sanctions from overseas would end. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)

Zimbabweans forced to reap the Zanu-PF whirlwind

The country’s second fuel increase since December makes petrol in ​Zimbabwe the most expensive in the world

Motorists are spending nights waiting in long queues for petrol and diesel as Zimbabwe experiences crippling fuel shortages. (Jekesai Njikizana/AFP/Getty Images)

Anger as Mnangagwa raises petrol prices in Zimbabwe

President Emmerson Mnangagwa said prices of petrol and diesel would more than double to tackle a shortfall caused by increased demand

Zimbabwe’s newly elected President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa. (AFP)

The Year of the Crocodile

It’s been exactly a year since Robert Mugabe resigned, but Zimbabwe is still the house that Bob built

Emmerson Mnangagwa is sworn in on November 24, setting out a programme that envisages a reversal of many of Robert Mugabe’s signature policies and promising that elections due in 2018 would go ahead. (AFP)

Zimbabwe: The year since Mugabe’s ousting

​Here is a summary of key developments since Robert Mugabe was ousted as president of Zimbabwe a year ago

A woman walks past a “No Petrol” sign at a fuel station in Harare, Zimbabwe, October 9 2018. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)

Empty shelves, rationed bread ring alarm bells in Zimbabwe

A currency crunch and a new tax on electronic transactions have spawned fears that Zimbabwe’s wrecked economy is about to endure a fresh bout of chaos

Patients await treatment at a makeshift cholera clinic in Harare. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)

Zimbabwe scrambles to contain cholera outbreak as death toll rises

Government says it plans to remove accumulated trash, address sewerage issues in the capital in response to this most recent outbreak

Nelson Chamisa, the leader of Zimbabwe’s Movement For Democratic Change (MDC) talks to Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga at the funeral of Morgan Tsvangirai in Buhera, Zimbabwe February 20 2018. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)

Zimbabwe’s opposition copies the Kenyan playbook

Raila Odinga told Nelson Chamisa: ‘Declare victory early, and keep declaring’ — and Chamisa listened