Social media often re-inforces power, rather than challenging it

August 25, 2019

Despite utopian dreams of social media unending despotic regimes, political power is often re-inforced by control over these networks. In…

Trump and Mnangagwa have a lot in common

August 25, 2019

United States President Donald Trump and Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa may be worlds apart, even enemies on paper, but they…

Why are Biti and Chamisa so desperate to join Mnangagwa’s illegitimate government?

August 23, 2019

“Ten years ago, forming a unity government offered a political solution, albeit a temporary one, to the crisis of hyperinflation.…

Zimbabwe police arrest 10 union officials as clampdown deepens

August 23, 2019

Zimbabwe police arrested 10 union officials today as they tried to petition the Finance Minister over low pay for teachers,…

Has Zimbabwe inflation begun its slide?

August 22, 2019

Zimbabwe’s month-on-month inflation which stood 39.3 percent in June declined to 21 percent in July raising questions about whether the…

Tendai Biti on how to get Zimbabwe out of its crisis

August 22, 2019

In August 2008, I visited a hospital roughly 100 miles outside the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. Hundreds of patients lay in…

MDC national organiser arrested

August 22, 2019

Movement for Democratic Change national organising secretary Amos Chibaya has been arrested for failing to stop demonstrations which were organised…

MDC has made the cardinal error of underrating ZANU-PF

August 21, 2019

A writer who claims to have strongly believed that the opposition Movement for Democratic Change would be the answer to…

Mphoko appears in court, released on $1 000 bail

August 21, 2019

Former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, who was reported to be on the run, appeared in court today facing charges of…

Zimbabwe still has a lot to fix

August 21, 2019

Zimbabwe’s rulers are finding that two decades of economic mismanagement and brutal repression have led them into a trap from…