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This past weekend’s referendum in Zimbabwe marks an important transition away from the 2009 Government of National Unity (GNU) formed in the aftermath of the violent 2008 elections.  The low-key referendum, where nearly 3 million people voted “Yes” for the

Read the rest of Zimbabwe: The end of power sharing, the return of brute power – By Timothy Scarnecchia »

The following originally appeared on the Zimbabwe Committee of the Peoples Charter blog on April 12, 2012. There are three papers in all, as the preface below states, to offer the views of a younger generation of Zimbabwean intellectuals on

Read the rest of Notes on 32 Years of Zimbabwe’s Independence Part 1 — by Takura Zhangazha »

[Editor's Note: This paper, by Busani Mpofu, a post-doctoral student at the University of Pretoria, originally appeared on the Solidarity Peace Trust's Zimbabwe Review on 16 September 2011. There have been a growing number of important pieces on poverty in

Read the rest of Zimbabwe: The Poverty Question examined — by Busani Mpofu »

The passage of time is a rarely considered element in our national political discourse. A year begins and a year ends and we are all afflicted by short memories. Momentous political events are not easily remembered even in the wake

Read the rest of Zimbabwe: 2011 in political retrospect — by Takura Zhangazha »

This blog is called ‘Rethinking Zimbabwe’. It seems that a lot of people in Zimbabwe want some rethinking about the operations of international NGOs and aid agencies here. This is, of course, not a new conversation: international NGOs and donor

Read the rest of Zimbabwe: International NGOs and aid agencies – Parasites of the Poor? – by Diana Jeater »