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The Standard Sunday Opinion by Pius Wakatama 7th August 2016 Pastor Evan Mawarire, who started #ThisFlag movement which led to the shut-down of Zimbabwe on July 6, is stuck in South Africa where he had just gone, as he said, for a break. This was after being harassed, intimidated, arrested and detained in cells on […]

Daily Maverick By Dr Stuart Doran 13th June 2016 To the casual observer, nothing much seems to have happened in Zimbabwe in recent years: Robert Mugabe, the world’s oldest head of state, remains president and Zanu-PF is still the ruling party more than 35 years after it took power. But there has, in fact, been […]

Daily Maverick By Dr Stuart Doran 16 May 2016 Times are changing in Zimbabwe as Mugabe’s end nears, but would-be successors are facing uncomfortable questions and equally uneasy choices. The way they react to these dilemmas will shape the country’s future. Dr Stuart Doran is a historian and the author of a forthcoming book, Kingdom, […]

The Herald By Nathaniel Manheru 14 May 2016 I am conflicted. I would have wanted to deal with David Coltart’s book or, better still, deal with the whole debate around bond notes, both of them quite urgent and substantive. But I find myself having to deal with a matter that by now should have been […]

The Herald Political Commentary By Nathaniel Manheru: The Other Side 7 May 2016 As I sit down to write this piece, it is February 18, 1978, and David Coltart has just taken off for South Africa, to start his university studies at UCT, the University of Cape Town. He leaves behind Rhodesia, still burning, his […]

Sunday News By Richard Runyararo Mahomva 1 May 2016 Last week’s piece summarised how the element White liberalism intruded the idea of liberating Zimbabwe in pure nationalist and pan-Africanist terms. It was in that instalment where I highlighted the hidden agenda of what members of the colonial race present to us as generosity for what […]

Sunday News Comment 17 April 2016 By Richard Runyararo Mahomva It is with great shock that Zimbabwe is continuously losing her prolific thinkers. This past week I was shocked to receive the news about Alexander Kanengoni’s departure for eternal rest. “Gora” (His Norm De guerre) the veteran writer was no more. The late critical thinker […]

The Standard 3 April 2016 Former Education minister, David Coltart’s recently published book Struggle Continues: 50 Years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe has sparked heated debate on mainstream and social media platforms. Some of his critics argue the book gave ammunition to First Lady Grace Mugabe’s Zanu PF faction — G40 — in its war against […]

IOL 12 March 2016 By William Saunderson-Meyer William Saunderson-Meyer says South Africa’s democratic institutions don’t allow much lattitude for a dictatorship to take hold. Southern African politics is an often rambunctious affair, far removed from the predictable and safe parameters of the established Anglophone democracies. It’s a bit like being thrown into the spin dryer […]