As Zimbabwe counts down to the 2023 elections, civil society is again fighting for its very existence. The parliament has, since November 2021, been working towards the amendment of the Private Voluntary Organisations...
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Turning a blind eye in Zimbabwe
The death of a 14-year-old girl, Anna Machaya, while giving birth in 2021, sparked national outrage and put the spotlight on the practice of child marriages within Zimbabwe’s Apostolic church, which also often rejects...
A bloody road to Zimbabwe’s 26 March by-elections
On 26 February, Zimbabwe’s vice-president, Constantino Chiwenga, warned the Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) and its leader, Nelson Chamisa, that Zanu-PF will crush the party like lice. AllAfrica reported that he...
Zimbabwean liberation war veterans mourn a dream deferred
Corruption, patronage and bad governance betray Zimbabwe’s liberation victory Like many Zimbabweans today, the late Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwe’s revolutionary giant, commonly referred to as “Father Zimbabwe” because of the...
Power dynamics in post-independence Zimbabwe
A nexus between power, politics and the military Literature is awash with research on the militarisation of the state, especially in West Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, where military involvement in...
Africa’s mass trauma
Why Africans still vote for toxic post-liberation tyrants Since the end of colonialism, apartheid and white-minority regimes, many African countries appear to have had disproportionally large numbers of psychopathic,...
