Zanu-PF’s anti-American rhetoric is not only deployed to win friends abroad. As elections approach, it is also a prominent campaign tactic at home.
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Articles on Emmerson Mnangagwa
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In his music, he positions himself within the people’s struggles and identifies with them.
Playing out in an animal kingdom, Glory is a devastating political commentary on Zimbabwe today.
Informal sector organisations in Zimbabwe have the potential to influence politics at a personal and societal level.
The award-winning documentary - now on in South Africa - follows opposition leader Nelson Chamisa. But it spends too much time in meetings instead of giving insight into the bigger picture.
The more President Mnangagwa’s government fails to engage democratically with its own citizens, the more it will negate any prospect of re-engagement with the West.
A forensic archaeologist and former Zimbabwe police officer uses his investigative skills to find the missing and the dead in his homeland.
The time is long past that Pretoria’s admonitions of bad behaviour by Zimbabwe’s leaders are backed by a credible threat of sanction and punishment.
Zimbabwe wants to issue a sovereign bond to raise $3.5 billion it has agreed to pay as compensation to white farmers, but the economic and political conditions aren’t conducive to such an issuance.
Artists are filling the state’s silence by revisiting history so that it can be discussed.
Sexist slandering has been used not just to describe Grace Mugabe, but to denigrate any women who aspire to political positions.
The current lockdown in Zimbabwe is going to provide a stern test for its informal economy, which is the country’s dominant economy and employs 90% of people.
It remains to be seen how much longer the ‘old men syndrome’ will persist in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa, despite growing frustration among the politically powerless.
Robert Mugabe’s years of playing one group off against the other to favour himself finally wore too thin in 2017.
It’s time for a new approach as it becomes increasingly clear that protests won’t topple the Zanu-PF government.
As Zimbabwe’s financial situation worsens, the government pins its hopes on borrowing more money.
The Mnangagwa regime’s coercive acts are a continuation of the violence and brutality of the Mugabe era, while he seeks global re-engagement and selective national dialogue.
Nelson Chamisa has the opportunity to foster peace, tolerance and democracy within Zimbabwe’s main opposition party.
The debate on sanctions on Zimbabwe has been lost in the southern African region and on the continent.
Mugabe is gone, but chaos reigns.
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Research Associate, Dept of Anthropology & Development Studies and Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Associate Professor of Sociology & Director of the Centre for Data Ethics at the Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Johannesburg
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Research Fellow, International Studies Group, University of the Free State
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Founding Director of Program on Intrastate Conflict, Harvard Kennedy School
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Post-doctoral Scholar, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University
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Frank and Bethine Church Chair of Public Affairs & Associate Professor, School of Public Service; Nonresident Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Boise State University
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Research Fellow under South African Research Chair: Cities, Law and Environmental Sustainability (CLES) Faculty of Law, North-West University
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Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, and Visiting Professor of International Relations, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, University of Pretoria
