Tawanda Mutasah
latest news & developmentsPiercing the Mbeki shield
On the surface, South Africa’s assumption of the presidency of the United Nations Security Council earlier this month has no relevance for the Zimbabwe electoral crisis.…
Don’t cramp the NGO’s style
A couple of years ago a friend of mine from law school accosted me at a breakfast table in a Harare hotel. I introduced him to my breakfast meeting companion, the director of a…
Out of sync with the neighbours
The crackdown of March 11 has been dubbed Zimbabwe’s "3/11" — as if to imply that it marks a tipping point in the country’s history. Whether this turns out to be true will depend…
Everything but quiet diplomacy
Five years into the crisis, it is evident that Pretoria and Africa’s position on Zimbabwe cannot be called quiet diplomacy. And so the question should not be what African leaders…