Ibbo Mandaza

Ibbo Mandaza and Tony Reeler - Assuming that Mugabe is unable, for whatever reason, to be the candidate of their “choice”, who can Zanu PF put forward that could meet the double jeopardy of both winning a “popular vote” and being plausibly…
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By Andrew Kunambura A ruling ZANU-PF faction agitating for Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa to succeed President Robert Mugabe is understood to be frantically working to reclaim critical party organs from its rival, after its clear…
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The recent furore over the statue of Cecil John Rhodes at the University of Cape Town — and the subsequent debacle over colonial monuments (and graves) in the context of the quest for (political and economic) transformation in Southern…
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A number of emissaries, including academic Ibbo Mandaza, have been roped in to diffuse the political turmoil within the MDC-T, whose infighting has moved beyond sparring.
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Enos Mzombi (actually Muzomubi in Ndebele) Nkala will be remembered most as one of the founders of the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu), as a break-away from the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (Zapu) on August 8 1963.
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HARARE - President Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zanu PF are heading for defeat in the July 31 general election, according to political analysts. The 89-year-old Mugabe is looking to extend his 33-year rule in polls scheduled for next…
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HARARE - “It’s another year. Just another year.” That was the reaction of academic, publisher and raconteur Ibbo Mandaza answering a question about how he felt about Zimbabwe’s 33rd anniversary of independence on Thursday.
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The expectation ever since the inauguration of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) on September 15, 2008 and its Government of National Unity (GNU) on February 14, 2009 that harmonised elections would be held sooner rather than later, has…
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Some Zanu PF hardliners have reportedly roped in expelled South African ANC Youth League president Julius Malema into their mudslinging campaign designed to discredit South African President Jacob Zuma’s efforts to resolve the Zimbabwe…
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Three myths are increasingly pervading the political discourse in Zimbabwe and reflect the anxiety around the current transition in which neither Zanu PF nor MDC appear to have succeeded in emerging victorious writes Ibbo Mandaza
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