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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

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

Former president of the Citizens Coalition For Change Nelson Chamisa.

Zimbabwe election: Nelson Chamisa appeals to youth, but odds stacked against him

Chamisa has not announced a running mate, feeding into rumours that he has weak leadership skills and prefers to centre power on himself

Supporters of the newly reelected Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa celebrate in Mbare, Harare, on August 3, 2018. – Mnangagwa, a former ally of Robert Mugabe, narrowly won the country’s landmark election, results showed early on August 3, in an outcome set to fuel fraud allegations as security forces patrolled the streets to prevent protests. Mnangagwa won 50.8 percent of the vote, ahead of Nelson Chamisa of the opposition MDC party on 44.3 percent, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP)

Hope fades for voters in Zimbabwe

Zanu-PF’s stranglehold on power has throttled the many parties that have tried to dislodge it

Popular Nigerian pastor TB Joshua had millions of viewers and followers on television and social media. He has died suddenly aged 57. (AFP Photo/ Pius Utomi Ekpei)

TB Joshua, Nigeria’s contentious Pentecostal titan

The popular televangelist, who recently died, preached a prosperity gospel that promised followers health and wealth if they had faith – and gave money to the church

Protesters at a rally in Lilongwe in January gathered to denounce alleged attempts to bribe judges overseeing a legal challenge to the re-election last year of Malawian President Peter Mutharika. Photo: Amos Gumulira/AFP

Judgments and jurisprudence: Presiding over presidential petitions in Africa

The verdicts handed down in Kenya and Malawi set a precedent that the quality of an election and the environment in which the election is held do matter and have a bearing on the…

President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe and President Cyril Ramaphosa in 2018. (GCIS)

Repression in Zimbabwe exposes South Africa’s weakness

The pattern is now well established: crisis, intervention, promises by the Zanu-PF regime to behave, and then relapse after a decent interval to the sort of behaviour that…

Zimbabwe’s Solomon Mujuru: general and nonpartisan

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

The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe book.

The last hours of Solomon Mujuru

Zimbabwean General Solomon Mujuru died in suspicious circumstances in August 2011. This is an edited extract from his recently published biography by Blessing-Miles Tendi

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

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

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Photo: Supplied

Zimbabwe’s split opposition is helping Mnangagwa to victory

Twenty-three candidates — the highest number in the country’s election history — are in the running for the presidential race

Mnangagwa had vowed the elections would be free and fair and turn the page on Mugabe’s often repressive 37-year rule. (Aaron Ufumeli/EPA)

Ahead of Zimbabwe’s elections, all bets are off

The 2018 election is the last hurdle that President Emmerson Mnangagwa needs to clear before his government will get the global stamp of approval.

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Editorial: Zim needs real reforms

Mnangagwa will not, on his own, be a salve to Zimbabwe’s problems

High hopes: People use boards to make a portrait of President Emmerson Mnangagwa at Independence Day celebrations. Zanu-PF’s manifesto

Zanu-PF: Military versus civilians

New factions are emerging in the ruling party as it prepares for national elections in either July or August