Social media often re-inforces power, rather than challenging it
Despite utopian dreams of social media unending despotic regimes, political power is often re-inforced by control over these networks. In mid-July Chad lifted its 16-month...
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Trump and Mnangagwa have a lot in common
United States President Donald Trump and Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa may be worlds apart, even enemies on paper, but they have a lot in common....
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Why are Biti and Chamisa so desperate to join Mnangagwa’s illegitimate government?
“Ten years ago, forming a unity government offered a political solution, albeit a temporary one, to the crisis of hyperinflation. A solution to today’s economic...
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Zimbabwe police arrest 10 union officials as clampdown deepens
Zimbabwe police arrested 10 union officials today as they tried to petition the Finance Minister over low pay for teachers, witnesses said, extending a government...
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Has Zimbabwe inflation begun its slide?
Zimbabwe’s month-on-month inflation which stood 39.3 percent in June declined to 21 percent in July raising questions about whether the price spiral which began in...
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Tendai Biti on how to get Zimbabwe out of its crisis
In August 2008, I visited a hospital roughly 100 miles outside the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. Hundreds of patients lay in overcrowded wards and on makeshift...
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MDC national organiser arrested
Movement for Democratic Change national organising secretary Amos Chibaya has been arrested for failing to stop demonstrations which were organised by the party but were...
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MDC has made the cardinal error of underrating ZANU-PF
A writer who claims to have strongly believed that the opposition Movement for Democratic Change would be the answer to Zimbabwe’s problems if it came...
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Mphoko appears in court, released on $1 000 bail
Former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, who was reported to be on the run, appeared in court today facing charges of criminal abuse and was remanded...
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Zimbabwe still has a lot to fix
Zimbabwe’s rulers are finding that two decades of economic mismanagement and brutal repression have led them into a trap from which there’s little chance of...
