Zimbabwe has recently announced it will sell licences to elephant hunters, in order to raise money to fund national parks. Botswana has also issued similar hunting licences, while Namibia is selling some of its excess elephants. As...
By Sharon Mupfure
The running mate clause is one of the provisions being dropped under the controversial Constitutional amendment Bill. It has been one of the issues featuring mostly in the debates around the...
By Takura Zhangazha
The Parliament of Zimbabwe is in the process of amending Zimbabwe’s national constitution, for the second time in as many years.
At the time of writing, the Constitutional...
It is the classic age-old battle of local communities versus a large agribusiness. A thousand families in Chilonga, one of the country's poorest areas, are about to lose their ancestral land to a project that officials say...
Common Law with Mike Murenzvi
“We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
By Takura Zhangazha
Linking Africa and African history to its contemporary placement in international relations is now rarely done, not least in Zimbabwe’s case with its peculiar pariah status globally.
This...
Africa cannot afford to continue with the despotic forms of governance that still proliferate across the continent.
Authoritarian and dictatorial governments are repressive, corrupt and inefficient. Their main interest is to retain power and...
By James Duddridge
Two years ago saw a dark period for Zimbabweans. Over a two-week period in January 2019, 81 people were treated for gunshot wounds, with 17 losing their lives.
By Miles Tendi
Major General Paradzai Willings Zimondi, who has died aged 73, had multiple identities.
There was the young Zimondi who in 1974 left his wife and seven month old...
By Marc Holtzman
There is no better time for the United States to reset relations with a foreign country than at the change of an administration.
While the new president, Joe...
