The Zimbabwean landscape is defined by the ubiquitous presence of the cross and the collar, yet the moral authority that once emanated from the pulpit has drifted into a quiet, comfortable irrelevance.
On a humid Sunday afternoon in Midrand, the air inside the Gallagher Convention Centre hummed with the kind of nervous electricity usually reserved for national elections.
In the smoky beer halls of Bulawayo in the late 1970s, a young man with restless feet and a voice that seemed to rise from the red earth itself began to rewrite what it meant to sing in Ndebele.
What if Zimbabwe’s political story is not tragic because it went wrong, but because it went exactly as power demands? For decades, Zimbabweans have narrated their politics as a sequence of betrayals, missed opportunities and strongmen who refused to let go.
Few patterns are as consistent and as lethal as the fate of the kingmaker in the unforgiving theatre of Zimbabwean politics. Again and again, the men who build power end up buried beneath it.
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and his wife Mrs Miniyothabo Chiwenga are seen here arriving at Maphisa Stadium in Matobo District for the 46th Independence Day celebrations on 18 April 2026.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has officially lit the Independence Flame at Maphisa Stadium in Matobo District as Zimbabwe commemorates 46 years of independence.
Iran has reversed its earlier decision to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, reimposing restrictions on one of the world’s most critical oil shipping routes.
