By Blessing Vava (CiZC) Photos: Getty Images / Waldo Swiegers / Cynthia R Matonhodze / EPA-EFE/AARON UFUMELI We bring to you Volume 7, Issue 1 of the Zimbabwe Briefing, from the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition’s Johannesburg based Regional Information & Advocacy hub. In early February 2021, South Africa’s Maverick Citizen published an explosive report, Cartel Power Dynamics, which dug deeper into Zimbabwe’s web of looting, illicit cross-border financial transactions by cartels

By Margaret Chinowaita Kuda Tagwirei-Zimbabwe's Business tycoon Maverick Citizen, a prominent South African online publication, issued the screaming report of Zimbabwe’s endemic corruption that has a trail right up to the highest public office – the presidency. This is not a new story, nothing startling, except the depth of research and the timing of the publication under the so-called new dispensation that came via a coup that toppled long-serving President Robert Mugabe in

By Obert Masaraure Mthuli Ncube, Zimbabwe's Minister of Finance The recently published report: Cartel Power dynamics in Zimbabwe, a report on cartel activities in Zimbabwe by the Daily Maverick describes Zimbabwe state to be under the capture of cartels who are colluding with public officials to loot state resources. The report rightly points out that citizens are apathetic and the state has heightened repression. This, therefore calls for the progressives to make a deeper in

By Karen Mukwasi Somewhere in the dormitory town of Chitungwiza, on the wall of a derelict building that in better days should have been open for business, a fading red graffiti sign reads “Varombo Tamuka” the poor have risen. Just a few steps away from the building is a makeshift shed. On a small card box in the shed is a line of 250ml bottles containing an illicit drink that is becoming increasingly popular with youths. The young man peddling the drink advertises the costs