Nkomo’s shoes too big for Dabengwa
Msika and Nkomo have largely depended on Mugabe for their political survival. Mugabe uses them to do a tribal balancing act in terms of representation in both the government and the Zanu PF political party. They are ‘Unity Accord’ window dressing for his political appointments.
Government of National Unity: A Political Fraud
The so called government of national unity in Zimbabwe is neither a government nor national nor united…. it is a child of gross political fraud. Civil society was left out, and so were other key stakeholders including the party that came third in the elections. Without making itself more inclusive, this establishment will continue to [...]
Morgan Tsvangirai: A Life of Struggle
FOR Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, life has been particularly cruel. The road to power in Africa has never been an easy one, even when founding liberation movements ousted colonial governments.
Namibia: After the war, Its pay day!
Children of the fallen heroes of Namibia’s struggle for independence spent two months camping outside the Ministry of Veterans Affairs building in the capital Windhoek. They have demanded jobs and education as compensation for the role played by their fathers and mothers during the protracted armed struggle against the South African apartheid government. The Swapo-led [...]
Zimbabwe: An unshakable albatross
It is eight months after the election. Zimbabwe still has no government. Mbeki, for all his shortcomings and failure to deliver on his mandate as SADC Chairman, has been toppled by his party and has sunk gracefully into obscurity. The US, a nation at war, has since elected Obama as president, and his former opponent [...]
Investigative Report: Zimbabwe Torture Camps 2008
Zimbabwe Torture Camps And Election Fraud- 2008. This Investigative Africa story aired on ITN Channel 4 TV, UK on June 18, 2008.
DRC: A new war on the way?
Rebel leader General Laurent Nkunda this week announced plans to “liberate” the whole of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This time, the DRC is without the generous (and taxing) military support of SADC countries. Here’s an excerpt from an interview Tawanda Kanhema had with the DRC ambassador to Zimbabwe, His Excellency Mr Mawampanga Mwana Nanga in September 2007.
Why Mbeki wont quit Zimbabwe
Thabo Mbeki, the Zimbabwean Vice President, no, South African President, has flown into Harare for the umpteenth time this week to put one of his last bandages on the desperate political situation. Even more desperate is the South African premier himself, who not only sees the Zimbabwe crisis as the yardstick of his performance as [...]
The Zim Political Settlement- A Giant's Robes Upon a Dwarfish Thief
Put a giant’s robes upon a dwarfish thief, and you have a depiction of the Zimbabwe political settlement. Tsvangirai said from the beginning (and he has said this for many years) that he would not recognise the Mugabe government as legitimate. Considering the blatant electoral fraud that has kept Mugabe in power for so many [...]
More Violence Against Zimbabweans in South Africa- Another Classic Case of State Failure
Attacks on Zimbabwean immigrants in Johannesburg, South Africa. Someone needs to buy South African President Thabo Mbeki a basic dictionary of the English language, and a small English For Beginners text book. Mbeki has told us that “there is no crisis in Zimbabwe” while standing on the bodies of 24 victims of post-election violence. Lately, [...]