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Zimbabwe’s Mnangagwa piles on public debt in second-term bid

Zimbabwe mortgaged its natural resources such as mineral rights to the lenders in exchange for fresh debts. For a time,…

A film about Zimbabwe’s 2018 elections is worth watching

It was pleasurable to watch electoral commission bosses and judges trying not to squirm

Shaping the ambiance of Zimbabwe’s Constitutionalism

With the three branches of Zimbabwe’s political system, the executive, legislature and judiciary, striving to advance their roles as contemplated…

Shock as traditional chief orders that Mugabe be exhumed and reburied

A traditional court in Zimbabwe has ordered that the remains of former president Robert Mugabe should be exhumed and reburied…

President Mnangagwa claimed Zimbabwe was open for business. What’s gone wrong

Henning Melber, University of Pretoria and Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand In November 2017 Zimbabwe’s military replaced Robert Mugabe…

The insurgent threat in Mozambique could be godsend for Zimbabwe’s Mnangagwa

Mozamique is fighting Islamic insurgents in its northeastern province of Cabo Delgado – rich in natural resources such as oil,…

The challenges of democratic relevance in Zimbabwe

It should not have been this urgent for Zimbabweans to re-examine their thinking of what ‘local government’ is. But given…

Zimbabwe’s Emmerson Mnangagwa: Two years on, the beast is revealed

Last month marked President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s inauguration as the second directly-elected leader of Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. Mnangagwa came…