Wellington Muzengeza is a political risk analyst, independent journalist, and urban strategist focused on African governance, infrastructure policy, and post-liberation politics.
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.
Former CIO director-general Fulton Mangwanya was questioned by police in Harare over allegations that he threatened a businessman and his family while in office.
Suspended Ekurhuleni legal services head Kemi Behari has reportedly been arrested as investigators probe allegations that senior officials shielded Julius Mkhwanazi from disciplinary action.
President Bola Tinubu has ordered a corruption probe after a purported government agency allegedly secured a US$950,000 budget using forged official documents.
