This might be portentous as activists and opposition parties raise concerns about whether next year’s elections will be free and fair
The single greatest failure of current punditry is the refusal to recognise that context matters.
From arrests of cabinet ministers to talks of a ‘transitional government’ led by Mnangagwa, the situation in Zimbabwe has been notably peaceful.
The minister of information has initiated a purge at the Zimbabwe broadcaster but staff say he must also stop it from acting as a Zanu-PF mouthpiece.
Jonathan Moyo, the ZBC’s new information and publicity minister has sparked hope in employees that the station can be turned around.
Radio may be old but it’s the most accessible form of technology on the continent, which is why some African leaders feel threatened by it.
The rooster has long been Robert Mugabe’s party symbol and it perches proudly atop the Zanu-PF headquarters.
Public hearings for new broadcasters are being keenly watched by Zimbabweans desperate to be free of decades of the state broadcaster’s tedium.
It’s been a tough road for Zimbabwe’s 11-month-old process of drawing up a new constitution.
Poor Zimbabweans are illegally investing in satellite dishes, to avoid watching endless propaganda released by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.
Hundreds of women converged on a stadium on the outskirts of Harare on Saturday to pray for peace ahead of the country’s tense presidential run-off amid mounting political…
Zimbabwe’s war veterans have launched fresh invasions of the country’s few remaining white-owned farms as President Robert Mugabe appears to be falling back on the tested tactics…
With only weeks to go before the Zimbabwean elections, there has been no let-up in the slanted coverage of the campaign by the country’s public broadcaster, according to the…
What is the voice of the media? The question was sparked by a recent complaint about a report on service delivery protests, as well as some elements of the current debate around…
