Zimbabwe’s July 30 Democracy & Legitimacy Test Forward to The Past CIZC Post 2018 Election Briefing paper, August 2018 KEY MESSAGE This briefing paper is a culmination of Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition observations and analysis in the run up to, during and immediately after the July 30 Elections. It uses political legitimacy as its analytics and is fed by a series of 2018 Election Fact sheets and statements that the Coalition put out during this period. The paper establishes th

For Immediate Release 09 August 2018 Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition unreservedly condemns the continued clampdown on opposition and civil society activists in the aftermath of the July 30 2018 elections whose results are largely contested. Following the announcement of the results, ordinary Zimbabweans took to the streets to protest against electoral fraud and the State responded by using brute force and about 7 people were shot by the military in the capital, Harare. After the