Vivid Gwede

Zanu PF is already preparing for a violent 2023 election campaign season as evidenced by utterances of its acting commissar Patrick Chinamasa, observers have warned.
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Having started the year engulfed with a myriad of problems — from fuel shortages, soaring prices of goods and services, shortages of drugs to labour disputes — the Daily News on Sunday’s Assistant Editor Maxwell Sibanda sought comments from…
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Vivid Gwede: "The work of any commission is as good as the evidence presented to it, because as the popular saying goes, “garbage-in garbage-out”. Unfortunately, a lot of garbage has already gone into the commission’s works. Hopefully, the…
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By Vivid Gwede Would you believe that your poverty is being created by your own government? I know it is hard to believe, but here is the story. Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson in their 2012 seminal book Why Nations Fail: The…
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By Vivid Gwede The European Union Observer Mission’s (EU OM) final report showed the ruling Zanu PF dominance in the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe was achieved, not by popular vote, but a cocktail of manipulation.
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The Gambia is a small river country, named after the river which cuts through its heart, the smallest country on mainland Africa, which is entirely surrounded by Senegal on one side and the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean on its western…
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Government’s move to impose a tougher 60-year jail term for rapists has been hailed across the political divide, though observers said more needs to be done in avoiding the crimes rather than censuring the perpetrators.
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The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is likely to use the discredited 2013 voter register in next year’s election, as the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) process will not be completed in time, analysts claim.
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By Vivid Gwede On Tuesday, May 31, 2016, a group of opposition parties announced a coalition pact which they code-named the Coalition of Democrats (CODE) with a view to presenting a united opposition front at the 2018 elections.…
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By Vivid Gwede The Zimbabwean government has a noticeable headache these days of not only whether a certain economic policy will work out or not, but whether the policy will get public buy-in. The authorities are wondering how this is…
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