The golden leaf: boom time in Zimbabwe — by Ian Scoones
Zimbabwe’s tobacco industry is booming once again. From the low point in 2008, at the peak of hyperinflation, when only 48m kg was sold, optimistic estimates for 2012 suggest that around 150m kg will...
View ArticleNotes on 32 Years of Zimbabwe’s Independence Part 1 — by Takura Zhangazha
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...
View Article“It’s our time to define our own destiny” Notes on Zimbabwean Independence...
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...
View ArticleZimbabwe at 32 – Tracing the Fading Democratic Value of National Leadership:...
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...
View ArticleA media glasnost for Zimbabwe coverage? — by Ian Scoones
The international media has had an appalling record of balanced reporting on Zimbabwe over the last 12 years. A single narrative, repeating the myths we attempted to demolish in our book is endlessly...
View ArticleSouthern African Implications of The Marikana Lonmin Mineworkers Shooting...
The tragic and fatal shooting of 34 mineworkers in South Africa has sadly brought back memories of the violence of the apartheid years. And because memories of apartheid are not only limited to South...
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Simba Makoni: no regrets about splitting anti-Mugabe vote in 2008 – By Magnus...
Simba Makoni - intends to run again for Zimbabwean presidency.Simba Makoni is the bespectacled former Executive Secretary of SADC turned Zimbabwean Finance Minister (2000 – 2002), turned Presidential...
View ArticleZimbabwe’s Save Valley Conservancy, Indigenisation and ‘The Lie of the Land’—...
On the surface of it, it would appear that the political dispute over the Save Valley Conservancy in South Eastern Zimbabwe is yet another story of ‘illegal land-grabs’. It must however be said at the...
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Mugabe Pushing Zimbabweans to the Brink? – By Marko Phiri
(Photo credit, Solidarity Peace Trust) Munyaradzi Gwisai, a prominent lawyer and former MDC legislator, arrested last year and charged with treason after organising a public meeting where participants...
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Class and rural differentiation after land reform in Zimbabwe and Two New...
A new paper in the Journal of Agrarian Change by the team that wrote the Zimbabwe’s Land Reform book examines the processes of rural differentiation that have occurred following land reform in 2000,...
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Morgan Tsvangirai : A Critical View – By Simukai Tinhu
Morgan Tsvangirai has done much to stand up to ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe, but the MDC must not prevent democracy from penetrating its own internal workings.The tendency of international statesmen to praise...
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Ethnic politics on the Zimbabwean campaign trail: do voters really care? – By...
Since independence in 1980, there appears to have been an ingrained political psyche peculiar to Zimbabwe’s Matebeleland region, where the political landscape has been painted in ethnic colours....
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Zimbabwe: The end of power sharing, the return of brute power – By Timothy...
Attorney Beatrice Mtetwa entering court in Harare for her unsuccessful bail hearing on March 20. Source: ReutersThis past weekend’s referendum in Zimbabwe marks an important transition away from the...
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Zimbabwe: heading towards elections without political reforms – By Simukai Tinhu
Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF has a history of using violence for political ends, there is no reasonto suggest the next election will be any different.On the 16th March, the new constitution of Zimbabwe was...
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Zimbabwe has a new Constitution, but disputes over the land provisions...
On March 16th, Zimbabweans voted on a new Constitution in a national referendum. The voting was largely peaceful, and the turnout higher than expected, with over 3 million people voting. With all...
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When is research ‘really authoritative’? A response to Martin Plaut (and...
Reviews of our book keep piling in; this time prompted by the recent publication of Zimbabwe Takes Back its Land, a more popular summary of the main studies of Zimbabwe’s land reform.The latest is by...
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Why has support for the MDC plummeted so much? – By Simukai Tinhu
It looks increasingly unlikely that Morgan Tsvangirai will lead the MDC to the promised land.Fourteen years ago, Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) launched...
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Tendai Biti: Zimbabwe must stage “a legitimate and credible election” for...
Back in 2009 when he took the job as Zimbabwe’s Minister of Finance, Tendai Biti had one of the most challenging jobs in African politics. The country had just experienced a traumatic and almost...
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Zimbabwe Elections Scenarios: New ICG Report Cuts Through the Political...
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...
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Making friends in London: is a new rapprochement on Zimbabwe occurring? – By...
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...
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