South Africa parrots Zanu-PF’s fiction that all Zimbabwe’s ills can be blamed on the West, while doing its northern counterpart a favour by absorbing desperately poor refugees from across the Limpopo. By Peter Fabricius Zanu-PF has outsourced the responsibility of looking after its people to South Africa. That is both […]
By Patrick Guramatunhu “What we know is victory is certain, it’s only a matter of time. Every struggle has its own unique characteristics. We know exactly what we are doing – please do not panic,” Nelson Chamisa told his audience over the weekend. If MDC knew what it was doing […]
Prospects of job creation and economic growth in the post-Mugabe era continue to remain bleak. Having lost his job as a sales assistant in an electrical consumables shop, Amos Chivedede at first believed Emmerson Mnangagwa, the man who succeeded Zimbabwe’s longtime President Robert Mugabe in a military coup three years […]
The SA president must be aware that the adverse effects Zimbabwe’s implosion has had on SA will escalate By Sarah Hudleston SA has much to answer for the sorry state Zimbabwe is in. Back in 2002, so much was riding on the Movement for Democratic Change( MDC) led by the […]
Authors including Kazuo Ishiguro, Carol Ann Duffy and Philippe Sands have called for charges against the Booker prize-shortlisted writer Tsitsi Dangarembga to be dropped ahead of her latest appearance in a Zimbabwe court this week, saying that any other conclusion would be “an outrage”. The Zimbabwean novelist was arrested during anti-corruption protests […]
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance has denied reports that it is smuggling guns into the country in preparation to violently overthrow President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime. State Security minister Owen Ncube on Monday claimed that MDC Alliance youths had undergone banditry training outside the country in order to topple Mnangagwa’s government. […]
The Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga almost didn’t get published at all. But even though her debut novel – when it finally came out – attracted international acclaim, publishing the next two still wasn’t easy. Now, while the third part of her trilogy has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Ms […]
EFF leader Julius Malema says the ANC must pay for using a government jet to travel to Zimbabwe. The Red Berets says the Secretary of Defence must invoice Luthuli House. Malema supports the ANC mission to Zimbabwe though, saying it’s urgent and necessary to resolve the political and economic challenges […]
Zimbabwean human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has lodged a court challenge against the magistrate presiding over investigative journalist Hopewell Chin’ono’s case, which is due back in court on Monday. By Fazila Mahomed “I’m going to challenge this decision in the higher courts,” said Beatrice Mtetwa soon after being barred by magistrate […]
“Democracy is and should remain disciplined rule requiring compliance with the law and social rules. Our Independence must thus not be construed as an instrument vesting individuals or groups with the right to harass and intimidate others into acting against their will. It is not the right to negate the […]