This election has divided us again

Emmerson Mnangagwa, the leader of the ruling Zanu-PF party, has been declared the winner of Zimbabwe's presidential election.But his margin of victory - he garnered 50,8 percent of the votes -...

How intellectuals made history in Zimbabwe

The history of Zimbabwe has been revised in the service of the governing ZANU-PF party. A 'patriotic' version of history, disseminated by public intellectuals and state media, has distorted le...

David Cameroon must meet Mugabe

Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe will participate in the European Union-Africa summit in Brussels at the beginning of April, as the EU's travel ban does not prevent him for taking part in internatio...

Why Robert Mugabe scored landslide victory

THERE is a phenomenon in African politics called the preponderance of incumbency. Simply put, it maintains that it is difficult to defeat an incumbent president in an election because they control t...

Mugabe's many faces

WELSHMAN Ncube, the Minister of Commerce and Industry and leader of one of the factions of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), lost his grandfather in the 1980s Gukurahundi. The violent Guk...

Why Robert Mugabe may win 2013 elections

Zimbabwe's warring political leaders have finally agreed on a compromise constitution, starting a process that is expected to end in elections later this year. A referendum on the new constit...

Mugabe plans to outsmart Zuma ahead of 2013 election

As Zimbabwe gears up for elections later this year, Robert Mugabe's opponents are welcoming the re-election of South African president Jacob Zuma as leader of the ANC. Unlike his predecessor Thabo Mbe...

Sub-Saharan Africa is not Egypt, Hague

WILLIAM Hague, Britain's foreign secretary, declared this week that "we are only in the early stages of what is happening in north Africa and the Middle East"....