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March 9, 2012

Zimbabwe: The Shadow of Elections — by Brian Raftopoulos

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This piece first appeared at Solidarity Peace Trust‘s Zimbabwe Update No. 4, 9 March 2012. A great tragedy of the Mugabe regime has been the deconstruction of national institutions, which some analysts have mistaken for a ‘radicalised state.’ In effect

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August 30, 2011

Two Deaths in Zimbabwe – by Timothy Scarnecchia

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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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August 12, 2011

The SADC season is upon us, again — by Takura Zhangazha

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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

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