Sanctions

Recently, the ‘Friends of Zimbabwe’ group of western donors met in London, together with representatives of all of Zimbabwe’s main political parties. The ‘Friends’ group – formerly known as the ‘Fishmongers’ after an expensive restaurant in Harare – is a

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The International Crisis Group issued on 6 May a very helpful report entitled Zimbabwe: Elections Scenarios. Prepared by Piers Pigou, the ICG’s Southern Africa projects director and his team, this report should be required reading for those outside of Zimbabwe

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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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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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  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 following editorial was first published as Solidarity Peace Trust: Zimbabwe Update No.1.  March 2011. The effects of the events in North Africa on Zimbabwean Politics. Given the economic and political convulsions that have marked Zimbabwean politics for the last

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