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 a special edition focusing on Africa Day, which we commemorated on Monday, the 25th of May. This edition comes at a time when the continent and world at large is grappling with the deadly, Covid-19 pandemic which has claimed thousands of lives. Africa has had its share of the pandemic, h

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 commemoration traverses two themes: “Silencing the guns: creating conducive conditions for Africa’s development to achieve the goal of a conflict-free Africa”. It would appear that the African Union (AU), the continental governing body decided to combine the themes of continental peace

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 thus apt that the importance of silencing the guns in Africa, in this year, should form an intrinsic part of the celebration of Africa Day on May 25. The outcry for peace is a challenge to the current war mongers, whose conduct mocks those who founded the Organisation of African Unity o

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 multilingual tribes and ethnic groups who have for years displayed great skill and intellect. From the Great Pyramids of Egypt to the Great Walls of stone (Great Zimbabwe) in Zimbabwe, the Mosaic Art of Morocco and the rich landscapes of natural resources, untamed wildlife and rich flora

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 25 is being marked across the world African Liberation Day. It marks the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity in 1963 in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Kambale Musavuli of the Pan-Africanism Today Secretariat talks to Justice Henaku of the Socialist Forum of Ghana on the significan

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 fully in place. It is becoming clear that a country can be independent of settler colonialists and remain dominated by native colonialists. The political independence of Zimbabwe in 1980 did not in any way lead the country to liberation but to another form of political domination that will