Zimbabwe Democracy Institute

HARARE - The Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) was officially launched in Harare on Tuesday at a function presided over by Zimbabwe’s leading human rights lawyer and long standing democratic icon Beatrice Mtetwa.
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HARARE - Zanu PF will not cruise to a landslide victory against the MDC-T in the forthcoming harmonized elections, as suggested by some analysts.
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HARARE - A rising tide of police harassment and the systematic crackdown on civic society and MDC supporters by State agents has, yet again, unmasked President Robert Mugabe as a master of double speak.
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The need for a new constitution in Zimbabwe arose from a crisis of state governance and legitimacy. When the NCA formed in 1997 to demand changes in the constitution, they were primarily concerned with the President’s excessive executive…
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FOR the past decade or so information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been widely used as crucial platforms and tools to bring about social change around the world, particularly in Africa, the Arab world and Eastern Europe.
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Chances of Zimbabwe having a credible, free and fair election remain slim because the secretariat of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) remains “problematic, partisan, and militarized.”
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The March 2008 harmonized national elections showed that Zimbabwe has the capacity to hold relatively democratic elections, yet the June 2008 presidential run-off election where Zanu PF deployed widespread violence and intimidation also…
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