By Lucy Rumbidzai Chivasa Born on the 10th of August 1975 and died June 5, 2022, Alex Tawanda Magaisa was a Zimbabwean academic and law lecturer at Kent law School of the University of Kent, United Kingdom. He suffered a cardiac arrest at Margate Hospital in England on 5 June 2022. Doctor Magaisa was a lot of things to many people, and the nation cannot ignore the impact and global reach which his blog, The Big Saturday Read (BSR) has made. One of the greatest attributes that

By Vivid Gwede In theorising about leadership, Plato suggested that for justice to reign in the Republic, it must be ruled by philosopher kings, or either kings become philosophers or philosophers become kings. Yet in real life, often philosophers and rulers exist separately, the former to give counsel to the throne and the latter an ear to wise counsel. Like Alex Magaisa, who passed on, Sunday, June 5, philosophers today either exist in proximity to the court or away from it

By Dr. Pedzisai Ruhanya If the ruling class has lost its consensus, i.e., is no longer "leading" but only "dominant", exercising coercive force alone, this means precisely that the great masses have become detached from their traditional ideologies, and no longer believe, what they used to believe previously...The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear – Antonia Graa

The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition joins Zimbabwe, the broader region and indeed the world in mourning the very sad passing on of Dr. Alex Magaisa, a public intellectual giant, passionate, fearless human rights and democracy fighter and a prolific writer. Dr. Magaisa was truly a very close friend of the Coalition and we are humbled by the challenge of describing the fullness of his contribution and sacrifice on this dark day. As we lay him to rest today, we dedicate this public