Zimbabwe’s economy is almost reaching a boiling point. The country is facing a serious economic crisis that has brought headaches and no joy to Mnangagwa’s new dispensation. Since taking over from Mugabe after a military coup of November 2017, Mnangagwa has been struggling to change the fortunes of the troubled Southern African country. The worsening economic crisis, a hybrid of massive fuel shortages, electricity blackouts, low industrial capacity utilization, rising infla

False Uhuru In the week of the 14th of January 2019, Zimbabwe burst into flames as the general citizenry in urban areas protested at rising poverty and inequality. Interestingly, for Zimbabwe, high hopes had been sold to the citizenry and international community after the deposing of long time ruler Robert Mugabe in November 2017. Emmerson Mnangagwa, the new president, promised a new era and came up with the ‘open for business’ mantra. Pursuant, to this the rhetoric of govern

Extractive Taxation and the Grand Heist In a recent quarterly report of the country’s public finances, the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) openly bragged that revenue collection had gone up a whopping 41%. One cardinal pillar of our constitutional republic is that, we the citizens, must be very vigilant when this kind of increases are thrown around and we must look further to grasp why, if Zimbabwe’s political economy is melting down as it is, then when did this haul of m

When President Mnangagwa made overtures for ‘national dialogue’ to his political rivals in the 2018 harmonized elections, it was understandably viewed as some sort of political grandstanding. Not least because the mainstream MDC-Alliance opposition, has not participated in the same while holding out for its own terms to be accepted. Even though of late it has been making overtures of reconsidering its overall position as reported in the mainstream media. The opposition polit