Editor’s Choice

On the evening of December 17, 2025, Zimbabwe did what it has become remarkably good at doing. It paused. Not for a power cut or a breaking policy announcement, but for a family dispute playing out in real time on social media.
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On December 16, 2025, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation that did not merely expand the U.S. travel ban; it weaponised it. Sixteen additional countries were thrown onto America’s blacklist, the majority of them African.
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Patrice Motsepe’s persistent refusal to be drawn into the African National Congress (ANC) succession drama is not an act of coyness or political modesty. It is a mirror held up to a party that no longer recognises itself.
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In the hush that follows the strum of the last guitar chord and the final trembling note of a saxophone, a great giant of Zimbabwean music has fallen silent.
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s recent appointment of new commanders of the Defence Forces is not the routine choreography of state administration; it is a calculated consolidation of power, executed with the precision of a ruler who…
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Political analysis is not fortune-telling. Analysts are not seers gazing into crystal balls; we work more like cartographers, drawing maps from traces of the past and the present to help societies anticipate what lies beyond the next bend.
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There is something profoundly disturbing—almost grotesque—about a head of state proudly handing out expensive vehicles while the nation’s hospitals resemble hospices for the forgotten, and schools look like relics abandoned by time.
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Nelson Mandela, the saccharine saint of global liberalism, is worshipped as the architect of South Africa's so-called rainbow miracle. His 1990 prison release and 1994 presidency are peddled as epic victories of saintly grace over barbaric…
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When Jah Prayzah and Winky D share a lineup, the atmosphere changes. The air thickens. The city hums with anticipation. People speak of it the way they speak of rare cosmic events. Something you do not miss because it might never happen…
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I have previously conversed with Brighton Mutebuka over taking back sellouts, giving them leadership positions or rewarding them AHEAD of cadres who held fort and steered the struggle.
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