Columnist / Ibbo mandaza
News headlines over reform headways
Since Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, the concept of "reform" or "change" of institutions, political culture and the constitution to "widen and deepen individual, political, economic, social, cultura...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:30hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza
The political economy of corruption
As a cancer inherent in varying degrees of intensity across the globe, corruption is an integral part of the political economy of world capitalism.So, the capitals of the western world lie at ...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:24hrs | 3 | by Ibbo Mandaza
How the Khupe coup resonates with the import of Excelgate
Thi's time last year, Excelgate was about to be published, in the ex-pectation, inter alia, that the MDC Alliance, in particular, would capitalise on the revelations therein, to both fuel their legal ...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:11hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza
Towards the National Transitional Authority
IntroductionIn 2016, the Platform for Concerned Citizens (PCC) warned that the country was heading into deep trouble and a possible coup. This was the only possible outcome for the disintegrat...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:43hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza & Tony Reeler
Zimbabwe has become a lawless state?
Zimbabwe has been skirting a constitutional crisis since November 2017, and, despite the optimism of the international and regional community, in our view the government has finally plunged the countr...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 14:34hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza & Tony Reeler
Mnangagwa's false start
AS undergraduates in our day, one of the most cynical commentaries on post-independent Africa was French writer, Rene Dumont's book False Start in Africa (1966).Those were the years of militar...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Another GNU in the making?
The 2018 elections in Zimbabwe bear strong similarities to those of 1980: the promise of a new beginning after almost two decades of political strife, economic crisis and social decay; the numerical d...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 15:26hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza
July 30 election: Not free, fair or credible
As things stand at present, it is evident that these elections cannot be called free, fair or credible without some remarkable changes taking place.The fast approaching elections in Zimbabwe a...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 15:58hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza & Tony Reeler
What if Zimbabwe's 2018 elections are not free, fair and credible?
THIS is the question that few seem to be raising ahead of the polls in a few months' time. This is exceedingly curious in the aftermath of the November 2017 events, the ousting of a sitting president,...Published: 04 May 2018 at 08:25hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza & Tony Reeler
How to avoid flawed elections in Zimbabwe
Elections are now the obsession of all as the way forward in the aftermath of last November's military coup, but the very big question is what kind of elections.However, Zimbabwe has a very po...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 08:43hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza & Tony Reeler
Curing the Zimbabwe coup: Polls or transitional govt?
Since our last opinion piece, it is evident that there is growing complacency about both what has taken place and what is likely to take place in the aftermath of the coup last year.If history...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 07:48hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza & Tony Reeler
Caveat emptor on 'post-Mugabe' permutations
Let's all admit it: the "Zimbabwean question" has for the past two decades been subject of such plotting and planning; academicising and theorising; mapping and pontificating that have not been seen p...Published: 09 Sep 2017 at 09:40hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza
Arthur Mutambara pens new book on Zimbabwe politics
Sapes Books, to be launched in Harare on June 14 2017 is a most welcome addition to the Sapes Books' stable of illustratious autobiographies/biographies: Elijah Mudenda (Zambia: A Generation of Strugg...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 08:14hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza
Elections won't solve the Zimbabwe crisis
The deep crisis in the state was neatly expressed by Brian Kagoro at last week's Pan-Africa Lecture at Southern African Political Economy Series (Sapes). He posed the notion that Zimbabwe suffers from...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 09:11hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza & Tony Reeler, Academics
Enos Nkala: A controversial nationalist giant
ENOS Mzombi (actually Muzomubi in Ndebele) Nkala will be remembered most as one of the founders of the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu), as a break-away from the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (...Published: 30 Aug 2013 at 13:11hrs | 10 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Solomon Mujuru a leader who made, unmade history
Speculation about the possible political developments in Zimbabwe in the aftermath death of Solomon Mujuru (herein referred to as "Rex"), his legendary nom de guere this week, is understandable...Published: 24 Aug 2011 at 19:03hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza
Farewell Edgar '2Boy' Tekere
EDGAR "2Boy" Zivanai Tekere died on June 7, succumbing finally to an illness (prostate cancer) that had plagued him for the last five years.The last year in particular was a difficult one for...Published: 12 Jun 2011 at 10:33hrs | 1 | by Dr Ibbo Mandaza
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