We bring to you here Vol 6, Issue 3 of our flagship publication, the Zimbabwe Briefing, from the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition’s Johannesburg based Regional Information & Advocacy hub. This is...

This year celebrations to mark Africa Day and Africa Week have been dampened by the dark cloud of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic. This may explain the fact that unlike past events, the 2020...

The rapid spread of Covid-19 has heightened our consciousness to the value of life and of its fragility.  For most people, the current environment has evoked a desire to live in harmony. It is...

Historically Africa is known as the cradle of humankind, a continent that bore the first existence of man. The continent holds varied cultures and traditions that are carried in the hearts of...

Justice Henaku discusses the political, historical, and cultural importance of African Liberation Day for the people on the African continent, of the African diaspora and across the world.

May...

Discerning Zimbabweans are fast realising that the same political conditions that forced some Zimbabweans in the 1970s to go to the bush and pick up arms against Rhodesian settlers are now ful...

The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) takes this opportunity to honour the memory of all the martyrs of our liberation struggle, whose commitment, bravery and self-sacrifice won for us the i...

One of my earliest recollection of General Solomon Mujuru, the mystified hero, was when we played ‘fake’ guerrillas with my cousins around the yard in rural Zimbabwe, and blissfully singing th...

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry

Like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore –

And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over –

Like a syrup sweet

Maybe it just...

Introduction and Background

At Independence Day in 1980, the late Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania made the famous remarks to the late founding leader of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, "you have...