He is an emblematic, historical figure. He is a giant, whose boot steps inaugurated a revolutionary era in the early years - boots that, sadly, became too heavy for him, and too painful for the ordinary people for whose liberation he had fought. (...)
Le Zimbabwe connaît, depuis 2015, une importante recrudescence des contestations, portant essentiellement sur les questions socio-économiques et les conditions de vie. Des opportunités se présentent aux mouvements mobilisés en faveur d’un changement (...)
En dépit de plus d’une décennie de mobilisations à intensité variable, la ZANU-PF du président Mugabe est parvenue à assurer sa survie politique. Si la dégradation du consensus nationaliste s’est manifesté dès le milieu des années 1990 par une (...)
Au cours de ces dernières semaines, Pambazuka News a publié deux articles sur le Zimbabwe qui ont entraîné cette réaction fort polémiste mais très argumentée de la part d’Horace Campbell. Ce dernier réagit à l’appel lancé par des chercheurs du CODESRIA (...)
« I was raped by four Zanu PF militias at night, just outside their base, during the elections. They took turns to rape me, accusing me of supporting the opposition, MDC [Movement for Democratic Change] », said Pauline Moyana from Mutasa, a (...)
In the past, Zimbabweans have looked to African heads of state to support their struggle for democracy. But in the face of their refusal to act, civil society organisations are considering more direct kinds of action. Mary Ndlovu writes from (...)
The world’s attention has been riveted in 2008 by election crises in Africa, first Kenya, and now Zimbabwe. In both cases, challenges remain in converting electoral victory to political power. Can a victorious opposition come to power in the face (...)
La pseudo élection de Robert Mugabe à la présidence du Zimbabwe va certainement perpétuer la grave crise qui sévit dans ce pays d’Afrique australe. Il ne fait aucun doute que cette élection n’est qu’un simulacre de démocratie dans un contexte où le pays (...)
Would it not be easier In that case for the government To dissolve the people And elect another ? [Bertolt Brecht.1953] In March 2008 Zimbabweans voted in the most peaceful election since independence, resulting in an unambiguous victory for (...)
The character and content of the past and ongoing political, economic, social/humanitarian and (progressive) organisational crisis in Zimbabwe has received huge amounts of analytical and empirical attention from the broad left in Southern Africa (...)