Political dynasties emerge in Mugabe's Zanu-PF

A new political trend is emerging in Zanu PF since 2013 general elections. The party's control and leadership is steadily going into the hands of a few families, the top leadership, and they have not ...

Will Mutasa sink Mnangagwa?

When the Zanu-PF political earthquake at the December Congress seemed to have all but ended deposed secretary of administration Didymus Mutasa came out fighting and challenging the legality of the pro...

Zanu-PF victors consolidate power

The Zanu-PF December 2014 congress earthquake that toppled vice-president Joice Mujuru and secretary of administration Didymus Mutasa among many others may be over but the aftershocks are beginning as...

War vets ministry to keep ex-fighters in Mugabe's corner

President Robert Mugabe, in his political twilight, finally rewarded the liberation war veterans through creating a cabinet ministry specifically to look at their welfare despite the fact that surviv...

Will Tsvangirai be persuaded to join democratic forces?

Zimbabwe needs a strong and vibrant opposition political party to challenge or break the Zanu-PF hegemony particular after Robert Mugabe's resounding but disputed 2013 general elections two thirds maj...

How Mugabe has successfully manipulated Zanu-PF for 34 years

President Robert Mugabe is one-step away from his crowning moment as Zimbabwe's imperial leader after King Lobengula. His ambition to turning Zimbabwe into a kingdom where his word is the law is just ...

Image battered Tsvangirai faces the daunting task of reuniting the party

The MDC-T holds a divisive congress that can potentially weaken the party again less than seven months after it split for the second time in less than a decade. Leader Morgan Tsvangirai's trus...