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A Coup Within the Party: The Mnangagwa–Chiwenga Rift and the Future of Zimbabwe’s Power Structure

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has accused his deputy, Constantino Chiwenga, of incitement and treason in response to a corruption dossier Chiwenga reportedly presented to the...

Zimbabwe’s Intellectual Paralysis: The Crisis of Descriptive Analysis, Failure on Prescriptive, Predictive and Imperative of Imagination

Zimbabwe’s contemporary intellectual and policy landscape is haunted by a profound inertia—an epistemic paralysis rooted in its overreliance on descriptive rather than prescriptive or...

Full Text: Chinese Embassy Issues Investment Safety Advisory to Nationals in Zimbabwe

Important Notice to Chinese Nationals: A Reminder on Investment and Business Operations in Zimbabwe 1. Conduct Thorough Due Diligence and Risk Assessment Prior to committing capital,...

ZANU–PF as the Political Ecosystem: Beyond Party Politics into the Architecture of the Zimbabwean State

IN contemporary Zimbabwean political discourse, few assertions capture the country's evolving governance dynamics more sharply than social media political commentator Derick Goto’s recent claim...

Historical Context: Why ZANU PF government has soft spot for Israel

On September 20, 1966, David Ramin, then Israel’s representative at the UN, presented his country’s official position on Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, to the General Assembly. Israel,...

The Polite Letter That Proves We Learn Nothing From Atrocity

There's a letter from 1983 sitting in the British archives. It's typed on official 10 Downing Street letterhead, signed with an elegant flourish, and...

Chitepo’s Assassination: The Betrayal That Still Chains Zimbabwe

Herbert Wiltshire Chitepo was not killed by Rhodesians. That is the bitter truth Zimbabwe has for too long avoided. He was assassinated by his...

The Changing Zimbabwean Economy

I have often told foreign diplomats who are assigned to serve their countries in Zimbabwe and to visiting specialists, that we specialise in confusing...

Countering the IMF: Why Zimbabwe Must Define Its Own Path to De-dollarisation

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its recent review, urged Zimbabwe to provide greater clarity on its plan to end the use of the...

Zimbabwe and Southern Africa: The Unfinished Business of Imperialism

In September 1978, Mozambique’s first president, Samora Moisés Machel, delivered a speech in Maputo that dissected the mechanics of imperialist strategy in Southern Africa....

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