19 August 2020

The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CIZC) notes the disturbing developments in Mali following the arrest and detention of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Prime Minister Boubou...

WE, the Civil society organizations in Zimbabwe, under the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CIZC), a coalition of more than 300 organisations drawn from the church, labour, women, youth, students...

 We bring to you here Vol 6, Issue 5 of our flagship publication, the Zimbabwe Briefing, focusing on Heroes Day.

As we commemorate Zimbabwe’s National Heroes Day, today, a day set aside to hono...

Times are dark when collective dreams of freedom and happiness are turned into nightmares of torture, rape and murder. Zimbabwe is back in a genocidal moment where people are not safe from tho...

The honour of the national hero status to the late Zimbabwean music superstar Oliver Mtukudzi sparked a long-standing debate on who deserves the national hero status. Mtukudzi was one of the m...

Introduction 

The attainment of Zimbabwe’s independence on 18 April 1980 was a momentous occasion which gave birth to a new state which had been born out of a protracted armed struggle. It was...

We bring to you here Vol 6, Issue 4 of our flagship publication, the Zimbabwe Briefing, from the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition’s Johannesburg based Regional Information & Advocacy hub. 

This edi...

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on May 21, 2020 announced that the Covid-19 lockdown is now indefinite, in many ways maintaining a ban on any public gathering. However, two weeks later, the gover...

The ruling ZANU-PF party seeks to cancel, through amendments, key concessions made during the negotiated 2013 constitutional reform process. The proposals to empower the President in the appoi...

Introduction

The announcement by the government of plans to amend the Constitution towards the end of 2019 was disappointing but not surprising. After ZANU PF won a super-majority (two-thirds o...