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Ibbo Mandaza permitted a panelist to peddle fabricated rhetoric

Two days ago, on Thursday, 16 October 2025, the SAPES Trust, led by Ibbo Mandaza, hosted a SAPES Policy Dialogue titled "Another Imploding Succession Battle in ZANU-PF in the Midst of Unprecedented Corruption Scandals in and Around the Sta…

Published: 18 Oct 2025 at 17:49hrs | | by Prof Jonathan Moyo

A dangerous fantasy for Zimbabwe called NTA

The call for a National Transitional Authority (NTA) in Zimbabwe is neither new nor radical, but it is profoundly misguided and alarmingly dangerous. Every few years, a chorus of defeated opposition politicians and sympathetic academics re…

Published: 17 Aug 2025 at 10:06hrs | | by Frank Talk

Footprints in the chains: The life story of Job Sikhala

The book, Footprints in Chains: The Life Story of Job Sikhala, is less biographical than an indelible account of human rights abuses, the excesses of a securocratic state that is Zimbabwe under the current regime.All the same, the biograph…

Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 18:07hrs | | by Author: Munyaradzi Savanhu, Reviewed by: Ibbo Mandaza

Zimbabwe's crisis will not be solved by another election

For over four decades since our hard-won independence, Zimbabwe has been trapped in cycles of political contestation, economic decline, and social fragmentation.As someone who has lived through our nation's highest peaks and deepest valley…

Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 14:04hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza

WATCH: Prof Ibbo Mandaza did not proffer any new data to support his unorthodox call

Herewith is a link to the OR Tambo School of Leadership Public Lecture given today by Prof Ibbo Mandaza on "The State of Democracy in the Sadc Region: a Reflection on the National Elections of Zimbabwe".Predictably, the eagerly awaited lec…

Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 07:19hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo

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 military coups and counter-coups, mostly in West Afric…

Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 06:29hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza

Delusions of Zimbabwe intellectuals

JUST like the media, intellectualism is often overrated as both a source of truth and of accurate information - more so in the field of socio-political commentary.Blatantly partial academic political activists sometimes find themselves in …

Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

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, and the creation of a government with …

Published: 04 May 2018 at 07:25hrs | | 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 possibly anywhere else in the world post…

Published: 09 Sep 2017 at 08:40hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza

Mugabe succession battles becoming uglier

Political Scientist and Sapes director, Ibbo Mandaza (IM) says President Robert Mugabe has thwarted an "attempted coup" within his party. Mandaza spoke to Violet Gonda (VG) on her Hot Seat programme where he spoke about attempts to oust Za…

Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 13:19hrs | | by Violet Gonda

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