Political violence

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

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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

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The following is an excerpt from the Introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies on Zimbabwe edited by David Moore. The complete version of Moore’s introduction is available for free download at Taylor & Francis

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This review first appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books on November 23, 2011 .  Peter Godwin The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe Little, Brown and Co., March 2011. 384 pp. Catholic Commission for Justice and

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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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It is often very difficult to get a feeling for what Zimbabweans in various civil society organizations are currently thinking about the big questions they confront. Voice of America’s Studio 7′s May 14, 2011 Town Hall -Indaba meeting in Johannesburg

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