Category Archives: Articles
Habakkuk in Zimbabwe
Christianity Today By a Zimbabwean pastor-scholar Posted 7/24/2008 We’re hungry, angry, and depending on a sovereign God. How long, O Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save? Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong? […]
The Reign of Thuggery
New York Review of Books Volume 55, Number 11 • June 26, 2008 By Joshua Hammer 1. On a clear spring afternoon in Harare in mid-May, South Africa’s president, Thabo Mbeki, paid a call on Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s beleaguered dictator, six weeks after Zimbabwe’s tumultuous elections on March 29 in which opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai […]
What Happens If the Opposition Wins?
30 April 2008 By Dumisani O.Nkomo Dumisani Nkomo is the Chief Executive Officer of Habakkuk Trust which a Zimbabwean based information and Advocacy organization. The electoral impasse and political crisis that is currently dogging Zimbabwe could culminate in a number of scenarios, some being desirable, others undesirable but possible and yet others desirable and possible. […]
Mugabe’s Money Men
By Roger Bate of America Enterprise Institute Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 National Review Online A company with links to a U.S. government contractor is enabling Robert Mugabe despotic rule in Zimbabwe by printing bank notes. In the past month, these increasingly worthless notes have been used to bribe officials in the public sector, army, […]
Analysis of the election results so far
It is with considerable, but not unreserved, optimism that I write today because the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has finally completed the announcement of the House of Assembly results. The final tally is historic because for the first time in 28 years Zanu PF has lost control of the House of Assembly. Of the 210 […]
A Decade of Suffering in Zimbabwe: Economic Collapse and Political Repression under Robert Mugabe
Executive Summary On March 29, 2008, Zimbabwe will hold presidential and parliamentary elections. Few people believe that they will be free and fair or that Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union– Patriotic Front party will fail to return to office. That is a tragedy, because Mugabe and his cronies are chiefly responsible for […]
Cut off the dead hand of a tyrant
The Australian By David Coltart | March 04, 2008 THINK of Zimbabwe and you may have a vision of the majestic Victoria Falls, the breathtaking eastern highlands or the animals of the Hwange. But the more realistic image of Zimbabwe today is of dictator Robert Mugabe and the swollen, beaten faces of opposition leaders and […]
African oppositions’ greatest challenge
The Age, Australia David Coltart January 15, 2008 Oppositions should continue to use the rule of law in their struggles. KENYA’S opposition must challenge disputed election results in the courts if it wants to strengthen democracy, weaken autocracy and defuse violence. Even in Zimbabwe this has shown our citizens and the world that there is […]
Cemeteries in Zimbabwe Reflect Gravity of Crisis
By VOA News Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 22 October 2007 The cemeteries of Zimbabwe are filled these days with fresh graves, many of the smallest mounds covering some of what was the southern African nation’s future. An opposition leader says the acres of freshly dug graves are evidence of the ruin President Robert Mugabe has left Zimbabwe. […]
Zimbabwe Tourists Flood to Victoria Falls, Shun Other Sites
By VOA News Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe 20 October 2007 Blessed with natural beauty, Zimbabwe was once a destination for thousands of world travelers. Amid an economic and humanitarian crisis, tourism in the southern African nation is at an all time low — except at The Victoria Falls. There, the government shields tourists from the privation […]