Tag Archive: ZANU PF

Samora Machel’s warning to Zimbabwe on Mugabe: Not yet Uhuru

The month of October casts a dark cloud over of our Mother continent Africa, as it swallowed great revolutionaries who greatly shaped the struggles...

Zimbabwe, MDC Alliance: Nostalgia, Spoils and Last Chances

Zimbabwe’s largest opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) has decided to take a big political risk for the forthcoming 2018 harmonised election. ...

Zimbabwe, Thinking Beyond MDC-99: Some Notes on Designing Winning Coalitions

The defeat of the opposition by ZANU PF in the 2013 plebiscite eroded the once vibrant power of the opposition. Since that heavy defeat...

Amending a Constitution Using a Constitution: Basic Politics’ Triumph Over Law in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s Parliament had to be divided to vote on constitutional amendment bill number 1 of 2017. And it was pretty much a foregone conclusion...

Zimbabwe ‘Big Business’ + 2018 Elections: Peddling Capital for Political Protection and Power?

It may sound odd to many but Zimbabwe has ‘big business’. That is big companies that make significant profits on a yearly basis. Even...

Afrobarometer/MPOI Zimbabwe Survey: Extracting Political Meaning, Questioning Complex Reality

Zimbabwe’s Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) in partnership with Afrobarometer has recently made public the findings of its round seven survey on the ‘Quality...

Zimbabwe’s successive drought …no lessons learnt?

In January this year Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe declared a state of disaster especially in the rural areas mainly caused by drought which already...