Rethinking Zimbabwe

Solidarity Peace Trust issued the following press release concerning their latest indepth Report on the situation in rural Matabeleland and Bulawayo. The full report is available to download at the link below: “Nationally, Zimbabwe is more food secure at the

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Zimbabwe’s political crisis continues with political parties’ internal divides exposed by Wikileaks revelations, the coalition government at loggerheads on fundamental issues and the prospect of a violent election period in the coming year. Yet with the stabilisation of the currency

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In traveling across the greater parts of Zimbabwe, one is struck by the ‘life goes on’ way of existence of many of the country’s citizens. From the small rural shopping center (Birchenough Bridge), to the still sleepy  iron ore mining

Read the rest of “Some of us must remain to be with the People”: The Inclusive Government’s Disconnect with the People — by Takura Zhangazha »

  In early August, Robert Mugabe hosted one of his more bizarre state functions when he bequeathed $50,000 USD to a white Zimbabwean whose nationality and character had been questioned by the state press only months earlier.  Wendall Parson, a

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The U.S. version of We Are All Zimbabweans Now, published by  Ohio University Press, will be released in September, 2011. In early 2003 I sat in a California prison cell reading various bits and pieces of news about Zimbabwe. With

Read the rest of Trying to Illuminate from the Darkness: History and Fiction in the Writing of We Are All Zimbabweans Now — by James Kilgore »

“Inamori Ethics Prize Ceremony and Recipient Lecture” Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday September 7, 2011, 5:30pm – 6:30pm Free and Open to the Public Severance Box Office Tickets: 216-231-1111; or Reserve & Self-Print Tickets Online: Severance Online Kiosk More information:

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Two deaths in Zimbabwe’s political landscape happened a week apart in August. First came the tragic news of the murder of MDC-T politician Maxwell Ncube, whose body, according to VOA Zimbabwe, “was found August 9 in a ditch a few

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A few days before the 31st Ordinary SADC Summit of heads of state and government in Luanda, Angola on 16 August 2011, Zimbabwe and its government leaders are preparing themselves for their almost quarterly slanging match in another country which

Read the rest of The SADC season is upon us, again — 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

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It is clear that Zimbabwe is moving into a post-Mugabe phase. The 87 year old leader, who has dominated his country since it achieved recognised independence in 1980, may still be president. But no one knows for how much longer.

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