If Morgan Richard Tsvangirai were alive today, marking his 74th birthday, he would confront Zimbabwe with a conflicted gaze, one eye glimmering with pride, the other clouded with despair.
The March 2026 fuel increase, petrol now at US$1.71 per litre and diesel at US$1.77, a staggering 16.4% jump, in my view, is not an innocent adjustment to global oil markets, but a calculated strike against ordinary Zimbabweans.
Zimbabwe’s opposition democratic struggle today is defined less by institutions than by the illusion of opposition, a spectacle choreographed around the charisma of Nelson Chamisa.
President Samia Suluhu Hassan, the first woman to ascend to Tanzania’s highest office, has presided over the most devastating dismantling of democratic infrastructure since independence.
Across Africa, a dangerous fiction masquerades as strategy: that electoral legitimacy can be coerced into existence through handcuffs, censorship, and courtroom theatre. Regimes intoxicated by power deploy arbitrary arrests, treason charges, and media blackouts not as instruments of justice, but as desperate performances of control.
Resistance to plans to extend the term of office of President Emmerson Mnangagwa is intensifying after a group of retired generals and senior civil servants who are ex-combatants warned that any constitutional amendments must be decided by Zimbabweans through a referendum.
Chatunga Mugabe, the son of Zimbabwe’s late former president Robert Mugabe, first captured public attention when he was arrested following a shooting incident at his Hyde Park residence in Johannesburg last month.
The Labour Court has dismissed an appeal by Modus Media (Pvt) Ltd, a special business unit that publishes the Financial Gazette, and Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd, publisher of the Daily News, after the two media companies sought exemption from paying gazetted minimum wages in the printing, packaging and newspaper industry.
US federal authorities have warned that Iran could potentially respond to American military action by launching drone attacks targeting the US West Coast, according to a security alert reviewed by ABC News.
