Reports of Zanu-PF defeat in 2023 polls are tad premature

SEVERAL Zimbabwe commentators have interpreted recent by-elections as raising the possibility that Zanu-PF's 42-year-long grip on power is loosening and, come the 2023 general elections, opposition le...

Zimbabwe slides into new authoritarianism

The assessment of Zimbabwe's "Second Republic" under President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been overshadowed by the violence of August 1 2018 and mid-January 2019. On both occasions, Zimbabwe's military in...

Chamisa and the cost of election propaganda

An opinion poll conducted just a month before the election by Afro Barometer gave Mnangagwa a slim lead. This evidence was brushed aside. The response of Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the ...

MDC-T does succession the Zanu-PF way

MORGAN Tsvangirai inspired many in the fight for democracy in Zimbabwe. Sadly, the most immediate legacy of the late MDC-T leader is a predictable and unseemly succession battle from which the youthfu...

Chamisa does succession the Mugabe way

Morgan Tsvangirai inspired many in the fight for democracy in Zimbabwe. Sadly, the most immediate legacy of the late Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai (MDC-T) leader is a predictable and unsee...

Mnangagwa's permanent friend

THERE may be good reason for the new president's praise for Zimbabwe's former leader.It is not usual for a person who has seized power through a military coup to heap praise upon his deposed p...

Zimbabwe's shady police roadblocks reflect its failing governance

First published by ISS TodayIn Harare, it is sometimes said, nothing is what it appears to be. This is certainly the case with the city's omnipresent police roadblocks, which give the impressi...