Dear Readers When Mnangagwa was sworn in as Zimbabwe’s new leader following the November 2017 coup, he promised a return to constitutionalism and the rule of law. The people of Zimbabwe hoped for an immediate end to the impunity and systematic human rights abuses that had become institutionalised during the time of the late long time ruler, Robert Mugabe. However, barely a year later, and in sharp contrast to the promise of a peaceful, free and fair election that would ‘enhan

By Collen Chibango The 2018 harmonised elections came, observers came and observed, reports were published, and that was the end of the story. Such is the typical nature of elections in Zimbabwe, pitted as a process but in the end, just events. The 2023 elections are due in 17 months, and indeed, activity has begun to hype over the upcoming event. The hype will increase, tension will pick up and climax will come, and again, the end. This article seeks to show the same, but wi

By Nancy Njenge According to the Human Rights Watch World Report for 2021, Zimbabwe’s human rights record continued to decline under Emmerson Mnangagwa’s presidency. With the COVID-19 pandemic amongst us, several violations of rights and freedoms have been recorded since the ascendancy of President Mnangagwa through a military coup with the judiciary being the main weapon used by the state to silence activists and human rights defenders. In as much as we admit that COVID-19 i

By Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana That Zimbabwean political and economic problems are no longer a foreign issue to South Africa, but a domestic crisis, can no longer be questioned. Zimbabwean problems punish the South African economy and polity and are therefore South African problems, in veracity. The millions of Zimbabweans that, in their different problems and purposes populate South Africa formally and informally, legally and illegally, are a stubborn symptom of a deep