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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 11:06hrs | 187 | 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 19:07hrs | 529 | by Author: Munyaradzi Savanhu, Reviewed by: Ibbo Mandaza

NTA, best solution for Zimbabwe! Geza group is saying Chunhu Chedu!

Master of Philosophies say the same thing: without the backing of intelligenzia, there can never be remarkable national development. A Geza revolution is not backed by intelligenzia but by pastors, Izangoma, and prophets equipped with bibl…

Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 09:01hrs | 708 | by Nomazulu Thata

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 15:04hrs | 1306 | by Ibbo Mandaza

Ibbo Mandaza Jnr acquitted

Ibbo Mandaza Jnr (33) was acquitted on Wednesday at the close of the State's case in a trial where he was facing charges of assaulting his former wife, Ms. Tyler Rubenstein (37), on Christmas Eve last year.Delivering the ruling, the magist…

Published: 06 Mar 2025 at 14:52hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter

Simba Makoni's death rumors denied by close friend

Reports circulating on social media claiming that former Finance Minister Simba Makoni has passed away are false, according to his close friend Dr. Ibbo Mandaza. The rumors had suggested that the 74-year-old Makoni died suddenly near Rusap…

Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 07:48hrs | 5026 | by Staff reporter

Ibbo Mandaza's son faces assault charges

The son of prominent academic and political commentator Professor Ibbo Mandaza appeared in court facing allegations of assaulting his ex-wife on Christmas Eve.Ibbo Mandaza Jr (33) was charged with physical abuse following an incident invol…

Published: 11 Jan 2025 at 08:17hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter

Ibbo Mandaza appointed acting SG of Global Pan-African Movement

Zimbabwean academic and publisher, Professor Ibbo Mandaza, has been appointed as the acting secretary-general of the Global Pan-African Movement (GPAM) following the passing of Professor Ikwaweba Bunting on October 3, 2024. The decision wa…

Published: 14 Oct 2024 at 11:50hrs | 1064 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa must come out clean, says Obbo Mandaza

Prominent academic and publisher Professor Ibbo Mandaza says Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa owes voters an explanation of what happened before, during and after last year's general elections followed by the implosion of h…

Published: 25 Jun 2024 at 12:48hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter

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 08:19hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Moyo

Ibbo Mandaza lecture to be held at ANC political school

AFTER a face-off with Fikile Mbalula over a seminar on Zimbabwe's presidential elections, leaders of the ANC's political school are forging ahead with the event. The seminar will be held on September 28.Wits University will again host the …

Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 09:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Poll observers embarrassed by what they saw in Zimbabwe

Veteran academic and political analyst Ibbo Mandaza says election observers, including those from Africa, were embarrassed by what they witnessed during Zimbabwe's disputed elections.Mandaza (IM), who is also the Sapes Trust convenor and a…

Published: 17 Sep 2023 at 07:59hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's election are the worst ever witnessed says Ibbo Mandaza

Renowned political analyst Ibbo Mandaza has disclosed that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan were highly critical of Zimbabwe's recent elections, describing them as the worst …

Published: 13 Sep 2023 at 19:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

'Zimbabwe's political landscape tilted in Zanu-PF's favour'

The constant subjugation of the opposition parties by Zanu-PF over the years has created an uneven political ground in the country, Dr Ibbo Mandaza has stated. The publisher and political analyst was speaking on This Morning on Asakhe a CI…

Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 21:06hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

'Wadyajena shockingly arrogant'

POLITICAL analyst Ibbo Mandaza has described Zanu-PF Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena as "arrogant" after he dared the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) to confiscate all his property.Wadyajena made the utteranc…

Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

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 | 9 | 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 07:52hrs | 5 | 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 08:25hrs | | 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 09:40hrs | | 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 14:19hrs | | by Violet Gonda

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