After Cecil the lion , it’s the massacre of elephants in Zimbabwe
The elephant is a creature of majestic beauty and elegance, adored and respected by most people and, in many ways, a reminder of a remote...
Alex Magaisa
Alex T. Magaisa was a Zimbabwean legal scholar, political analyst and commentator. He lectured in law at Kent Law School, University of Kent, and was widely recognised for his incisive analysis of Zimbabwe's constitutional and governance landscape. His Big Saturday Read series became essential reading for anyone following Zimbabwean politics.
These bizarre & vexatious cases do you more harm, Mr President
If you graduated from the University of Zimbabwe after 1996, chances are that your academic transcript bears the signature of Ngaatendwe Takawira. She has been...
Robert Mugabe: The Odd Man Out in Delhi
There is an image from the recently concluded India-Africa Summit, held in New Delhi, which tells multiple narratives, one of which is the subject of...
Tsvangirai not Mugabe strangled student politics: A Response to Alex Magaisa
Editorial Note: This is an article submitted by a guest contributor, Malvern Mkudu, an independent researcher. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics and...
Why Grace Mugabe’s Donations of State Property are Unconstitutional
On Wednesday 21st October 2015, during a parliamentary debate, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa disclosed that the agricultural equipment distributed by the First Lady, Grace Mugabe,...
The trouble with Zimbabwe’s indigenisation policy
President Robert Mugabe likes to be seen as a great champion of the rights of African people and in return, many Africans across the continent...
Ubuntu: the spirit of humanity
Dear Subscriber, This is an unusual post, not so much a piece of legal and political analysis as a reflection on the state of society...
Succession Race and Contested War Narratives in Zimbabwean Politics
When Emmerson Mnangagwa was asked, in a recent interview, about his chances of succeeding President Robert Mugabe, he was rather nonchalant and dismissive in response. “You...
Grace Mugabe: A successor to her husband?
An old colleague in the political trenches used to share an anecdote from the time he used to work for the state media in the late eighties...
Imagining Zimbabwe’s future without Mugabe (Part 3)
In the last two articles, we observed how Mugabe manoeuvred his way to become the embodiment of Zanu PF, a feat that he also tried...