Sibangilizwe Moyo

The metaphor of the “yapping dog syndrome” is not new in international relations. It describes a smaller, embattled actor whose loud provocations are less about immediate confrontation and more about drawing in larger, more powerful…
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There is an old proverb that says: a clever bird builds its nest with the feathers of other birds. It is a saying that captures both ingenuity and danger.
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There comes a time in the life of every political movement when it must pause before the mirror of history and ask itself whether it still resembles the cause it once embodied. For ZANU-PF, that moment has arrived — and the mirror does not…
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The recently concluded ZANU-PF National People’s Conference in Mutare has once again thrust Zimbabwe’s politics into a dangerous constitutional moment.
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The proposition by former independent legislator Temba Mliswa that ZANU-PF should adopt a transitional presidium has sparked significant debate within Zimbabwe’s political and intellectual circles.
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When Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga rose to address the ZANU-PF Annual Congress in Mutare this week, few expected the speech to ripple far beyond the conference tent. Yet what emerged was not the perfunctory rhetoric of loyalty.
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For all his protestations of independence, Temba Mliswa has never been entirely outside the gravitational pull of ZANU-PF. His political language, even in critique, remains tethered to the movement’s historical idioms — discipline, loyalty,…
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Recently, Temba Mliswa—once independent, now very much a voice within the ZANU-PF fold— unleashed what he calls “explosive allegations” against Vice President Constantino Chiwenga.
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Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s reported intervention at last week’s stormy politburo meeting — that ZANU-PF secretly holds a 45 per cent stake in Sakunda Holdings and that at least US$3.2 billion was channelled through that…
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The Constitutional Court of South Africa has just delivered a judgement that, on the face of it, looks like a small administrative tweak. Husbands may now legally adopt their wives’ surnames, a right previously denied under the Births and…
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