The Big Saturday Read 1: Strangling the baby at birth – ZANU PF’s plot to amend the Constitution
This weekend we have an unusual edition of The Big Saturday Read. There are two #BSRs instead of one. The first #BSR deals with the...
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The Big Saturday Read 2: What happens if President Mugabe vacates office?
This is the second of our 2 Big Saturday Reads this weekend. This article looks at the issue of succession should a vacancy arise in...
Big Saturday Read: The river at the base of the pyramid – young people & elections in Zimbabwe
“I’m 35 and I have never voted. I nearly registered in 2013 but they closed while I was in the queue. I haven’t decided what...
The Big Saturday Read: Social media – a critical analysis of the new big frontier of the democratic struggle in Zimbabwe
The response of the Zimbabwean government to recent social media activism has been frantic. It betrays a sense of panic in the corridors of power....
The Big Saturday Read: Understanding “The System” in Zimbabwean politics
/wp-content/uploads/restored/2016/08/BSR2.mp3 “You can only fight the system if you have the same weapons. The system has arms and prisons. What do you have yourself besides...
The Big Saturday Read: How the cost of electoral theft haunts the ZANU PF government
Storming Rotten RowThose of us who are avid students of history are familiar with the historical significance of July 14, a famous day which symbolises one...
The Big Saturday Read: The law and politics of the Diaspora Vote
A number of people have enquired about the issue of voting rights of Zimbabwean citizens currently living abroad, the Diaspora, as they are often referred to....
The Big Saturday Read: Citizens’ movement and the resurgence of the repressive state in Zimbabwe
A young man is dragged out of his room, his pair of trousers half done, without shoes. He tries desperately to pull up his trousers,...
The Big Saturday Read: Remembering 27 June − probably the darkest chapter in Zimbabwe’s electoral history
The burden of memoryIn the end, they only managed to identify him because of a distinctive ring that he kept. His skull was crushed. The...
The Big Saturday Read: Land and the complexities of the rule of law in Zimbabwe
In the last #BigSaturdayRead, I discussed the issue of land compensation in Zimbabwe. I presented the current legal reality and argued that, contrary to what...