Opinion

Tafi Mhaka - On each occasion that I happened to come across him a sense of fear consumed me. One day, in 1989, he visited our school. He looked so presidential and awfully detached behind his bodyguards. Then I saw him in 1995 at a dinner…
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Kennedy Kaitano - It was the United States authorities who said they are not lifting sanctions on Mnangagwa yet, and if Minister Moyo who confirms he has had a meeting with the United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe wants to know the position…
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Tinomudaishe Chinyoka - I mean, talk about bad timing. Talk about bad taste, hell, think of any cliche about putting your foot in it and you have it all in one ill advised trip and some unfortunate statements from friends and colleagues…
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Nelson Chamisa - "I saw and read a false message that this trip was about sanctions. Far from it, the trip has all to do with out take on free and fair elections in Zimbabwe and our post-election reconstruction plan. "This trip comes as…
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Stephanie Sullivan - "The change in government also offers an opportunity for reform that could allow the United States to re-engage in ways we have not recently been able to do. In support of the people, we will expect economic and…
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Peter Godwin - "If we reward Mnangagwa’s ‘same as it ever was’ ZanuPF for its internal coup, for example, by prematurely dropping individual sanctions, we would help cement the culture of impunity that already infects Zimbabwe, where the…
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Dewa Mavhinga - Thank you, Chairman Flake, Ranking Member Booker, and other members of this subcommittee for giving me the opportunity to testify on behalf of Human Rights Watch at this hearing on Zimbabwe. I would like to request that my…
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Obert Gutu - "As a patriotic and homegrown political party,the MDC doesn't call for the imposition of sanctions against the Republic of Zimbabwe. We would like to participate in the socio - economic regeneration of our beloved motherland…
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Tendai Biti - Let’s be clear: the events in Zimbabwe described above were an illegal and illegitimate transfer of power from one faction of the ruling party to another. However, this was not the first time that the military in Zimbabwe and…
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Tapson Muchena - A new era has dawned in Zimbabwe… or has it? In recent weeks, to popular acclamation and adulation, ZANU PF and the war veterans have used the military to depose the erstwhile President, install Emmerson Mnangagwa in…
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