By Tawanda Majoni In its short years as the Zimbabwean first family, the Mnangagwas have fared quite sorely in one area: Choosing good friends. You will naturally remember Draxgate, the scandal that rocked the royal family to its toes. Collins Mnangagwa was/is friends with Delish Nguwaya. Delish still has a […]
By Alfonce Mbizwo A leaked report following a Joint Operations Command (JOC) meeting of August 10 is alarming to say the least. The report shows Zimbabwe’s dangerous drift under President Emmerson Mnangagwa towards totalitarianism, with security agents now actively policing critics on social media while those in foreign lands are […]
By Thandekile Moyo Zanu-PF and the government of Emmerson Mnangagwa demonstrate that there are no lengths to which they will not go to humiliate and torture women who speak out against corruption. Today a Harare court will decide whether Joanah Mamombe’s trial should be separated from her comrades. South Africa […]
By Taona Denhere Legitimacy in political parlance simply means acceptability or justification of political power or authority and obligation. It explains a scenario wherein the government of the day derives an uncontested popular seal of approval, acceptance, and recognition from the general public. Accordingly, in realpolitik, legitimacy manifests itself in […]
By Takura Zhangazha Zimbabwe’s mainstream political opposition in its current divided formations, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance or MDC-Tsvangirai is evidently in crisis. The MDC-Alliance which brought other opposition parties, including its own splinter groups, together for the 2018 general/harmonized elections has found itself in a split that has sought […]
By Ibbo Mandaza This time last year, Excelgate was about to be published, in the expectation, inter alia, that the MDC Alliance in particular would capitalize on the revelations therein, to both fuel their legal challenge against the Constitutional Court’s ruling on the disputed 2018 presidential election; and mount a […]
By Alex Magaisa A grim chapter in one of the most dubious political stories ended this week when Thokozani Khupe and her band of allies were sworn in as members of Zimbabwe’s Parliament. For those who are unfamiliar with Zimbabwean politics, Khupe and her party lost dismally in the 2018 […]
By Tangai Chipangura The hullabaloo sparked by parliament bringing Thokozani Khupe and her MDC-T crew into the august House to represent people who rejected them in elections, has sounded the death knell to democracy in Zimbabwe. The effect of this brazen disregard of democratic tenets which dictate that political leaders […]
Oxford historian, Prof Miles Tendi says the late national hero dismissed Mnangagwa’s liberation struggle credentials as meagre University of Oxford professor of history and African politics, Prof Miles Tendi, has given four reasons why the late General Solomon Mujuru did not want President Emmerson Mnangagwa to succeed the late former […]
By Tony Reeler Zimbabwe is currently suffering from an outbreak of abductions, detailed recently in the cases of Takudzwa Ngadziore and Tawanda Muchehiwa. However, prior to these more recent cases, the abductions in May of the three young MDC women, Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Murova, caused an international […]