Dr Moses Tofa reflects on 25 years of supporting Zimbabwe’s opposition and explains why he believes fragmentation, personality politics and lack of strategy will keep it out of power.
The appointment of retired General Philip Valerio Sibanda to the ZANU PF Politburo was delivered with the clinical precision of a military briefing, yet its reverberations are anything but routine.
The sight of health professionals at one of the biggest hospitals in the country twerking before a milk-nosed teenager who doles out US100 notes to the best dancers among them must have been the most shameful sight, even in a banana republic.
The recent public outrage sparked by Tinotenda Tungwarara, the teenage daughter of prominent Zimbabwean businessman and Presidential Investment Advisor Paul Tungwarara, has laid bare deep fault lines in Zimbabwean society.
Sally Mugabe is often remembered as the wife of former president Robert Mugabe, but her role in Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle extended far beyond symbolism. Teachers, activists and liberation figures who knew her described a disciplined organiser, strategist and diplomat who became one of the quiet pillars of the nationalist movement.
Zimbabwean social justice advocate Tendai Ruben Mbofana says the country’s liberation ideals have been undermined by corruption, political patronage and the rise of powerful tenderpreneurs closely linked to the ruling elite.
The photograph was a simple tableau of elite hospitality. At Precabe Farm in Kwekwe, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa stood with his host, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
A fiery address by opposition-aligned commentator Comrade Knox Chivero has laid bare deep-seated allegations of grand corruption at the heart of Zimbabwe’s ruling establishment
Zimbabwe has officially committed to returning 67 farms seized during the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) to their former owners - specifically those protected under Bilateral Investment Protection and Promotion Agreements (BIPPAs).
A press conference release statement by Vincent Magwenya, spokesperson for Cyril Ramaphosa, has triggered alarm about Zimbabwe’s state security systems and more specifically, the role of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO).
