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Zims’ 2018: A Year in Which Anger was Never Going to be Enough0
- Democracy, Development, Politics
- 31.12.2018.
At some point almost every adult Zimbabwean could easily be defined as being angry in the year 2018. And all for different reasons. A majority of us were apoplectic about the state of the national political economy as accompanied by the promises of Mnangagwa’s ‘new dispensation’. Not that expectations were that high. It was more
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Re-Reading Morgan Tsvangirai’s Bio, ‘At the Deep End’0
I recently re-read Zimbabwe’s late former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s biography or memoir, ‘At the Deep End.’ Written in collaboration with the late journalist William Bango, the book is essentially about Tsvangirai’s reflections on his own life. Both the personal and more significantly (for me at least) the political aspects of the same. And its
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Zimbabwe After the “Coup”: Hope, Freedom of Speech, Open for Business0
- Freedom of Expression, Media, Politics, Social Media, Zimbabwe
- 08.06.2018.
This is a tale from the recently concluded Africa Blogging 2018 workshop held in Harare, Zimbabwe. Landing in Harare, Zimbabwe´s capital was supposed to be a short 45 minutes flight. But in their usual fashion, Kenya Airways was again delayed. “We are sorry to announce that we will be shutting down the engines because one
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Rethinking the Opposition and the Civil Society in Zimbabwe0
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 ZANU PF party which was being hounded by a succession battle over the past two decades. The talk of succession was treacherous, ambition was sacred, it was taboo to express one’s
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Mnangagwa’s Downfall: The Proverbial Case of Giving the ‘Kiss of Life’ to a Dying Goblin0
- Democracy, Leadership, Politics, Zimbabwe
- 10.11.2017.
The battle for the soul of ZANU PF and succession of President Mugabe had been a tumultuous game that has in the past four decades claimed the scalps of veteran nationalists. From 1976, after the toppling of Ndabaningi Sithole, the leader of ZANU, Mugabe has out manoeuvred any potential or aspiring successors to remain the
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Zimbabwe, MDC Alliance: Nostalgia, Spoils and Last Chances0
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. It has decided to reach out to not only its one time members/leaders who left it in acrimonious circumstances but also other parties and begin a public process of setting up
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Zimbabwe, Thinking Beyond MDC-99: Some Notes on Designing Winning Coalitions0
The defeat of the opposition by ZANU PF in the 2013 plebiscite eroded the once vibrant power of the opposition. Since that heavy defeat of the MDC-T, the ruling party ZANU PF has been consolidating its support base to an extent that pundits have already predicted a landslide win for the liberation movement in 2018.
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Afrobarometer/MPOI Zimbabwe Survey: Extracting Political Meaning, Questioning Complex Reality0
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 of Democracy and Governance in Zimbabwe, 2016-2017’. The field work was done earlier this year. MPOI argues that its survey is quantitative and not qualitative. It therefore does not seek to
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This is not true and it is just a ploy to hollow out democracy - which, lest we forget is centred on consent, and rights - which are not the gift of the state. Order, when understood as something that relies primarily on compulsion rather than persuasion, is simply oppression. twitter.com/Eyenae/s…
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