Tag Archive: ZANU PF

History on Repeat: Is ZANU PF Facing Another Putsch?

The past few days have been quite interesting with the developments in Zimbabwe’s ruling party ZANU PF.  The unfolding events have been triggered by a...

SADC’s Newfound Radicalism: A False Assumption that the Future Reverts to Our Past

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has decided, probably by default, to become a little bit more assertive on the international global stage.  At...

Virtue and Sophistry: Economy As the Superstructure in Zimbabwe

There were a number of by-elections in Zimbabwe over the last month.  One for local government in my rural home district of Bikita East...

Only political action will remove ZANU PF from power

The leaked audio featuring a conversation between Mnangagwa’s wife Auxillia and an army commander named as Murombo has exposed the power struggles in the...

Zimbabwe @39: A Return to the Source and a Liberatory State

The number of years since our national independence may increase but its historic meaning is never lost.  And that is as it should be. ...

ED’s New Establishment Project: An Attempt at Elitist Permanence

When President Emmerson Mnangagwa made overtures for ‘national dialogue’ to his political rivals in the 2018 harmonised elections, it was understandably viewed as some...

Mnangagwa’s Deceptive Road to Armageddon

Zimbabwe’s quest for a new path under the auspices of the new dispensation and reengagement by Mnangagwa has vapoured into thin air faster than...

One Year After Mugabe: A Revolution Still not Televised

On 15 November 2017, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s longest serving ruler was confined to his private residence in the affluent suburb of Borrowdale in Harare,...

The Bulawayo Rally Explosion: Reflecting, Remaining True to a National Democratic Course

The tragic bomb blast in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe  on the weekend of 23 July 2018 at a Zanu Pf rally made one pause for deep reflection...

The Mnangagwa’s Unfinished Homework: The Need for a True Public Media

The media comedies of errors by the Mnangagwa’s from the events of the past weeks have been interesting in the so-called ‘new dispensation’.  Since...

Rethinking the Opposition and the Civil Society in Zimbabwe

The 15 November 2017 military coup in Zimbabwe marked the end of Mugabe’s 37-year stranglehold on power, as the balance of forces shifted in the ruling...

Zimbabwe’s unending wild goose chase: from the ‘people’s revolution’ to ‘Operation restore legacy’

Zimbabwe’s 93 year old despot Robert Mugabe’s 37 years hold on power has been checkmated and has reached its end after his resignation, which...