Zimbabwe Archives

3Aug

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Africa

Zimbabwe Incumbent President, ZANU-PF Re-elected in Historic Poll

NOVANEWS Opposition forces reject outcome seeking to continue western sanctions and attempted isolation By Abayomi Azikiwe Note to readers: please click the share buttons above Featured image: Zimbabwe MDC-A instigated violence on August 1, 2018 in Harare National harmonized parliamentary and presidential elections in the Southern African state of Zimbabwe were held on July 30. Over 70 percent of the electorate participated in the voting where some 23 presidential candidates and dozens of political parties were on the ballot. This is the first election since the resignation of former President Robert Mugabe during late November 2017. His predecessor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has attempted to set the stage for improving the national economy through reforms aimed at lifting...

1Jul

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Africa

“Soft as wool”: Crocodile Mnangagwa’s political conversion?

NOVANEWS The Zimbabwe Mail Odomaro Mubangizi The recent grenade attack in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe has been described by close allies of the president, as an assassination attempt against President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Whether that is true or not remains to be seen. What is a fact is that the president might have politically benefited from that unfortunate event. Introduction Wonders never cease! It is just a few days (23 June 2018 to be exact) that, President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe escaped an assassination attempt during a rally in Bulawayo. Then during the famous British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)’s Focus on Africa programme on 27 June 2018, an interviewer puts a question to President Mnangagwa (nicknamed crocodile) challenging him in his pa...

22Feb

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Zimbabwe

A “corrective measure”?: Zimbabwe, Black power, and Western imperialism

NOVANEWS From an article in The Herald titled “No Military Takeover in Zimbabwe” The article adds the following caption about this photo: “free movement of people in the Capital city as the Army calls for peace and calmness.” Recently the bourgeois media has been up in arms over Zimbabwe. But what is it all about? What is going on? After one user asked what was going on, writing that “there is a decided lack of information, but things don’t look very good. Robert Mugabe has made significant efforts to keep Zimbabwe free of domination by Western imperialism and Western capitalism. Further information would be appreciated,” some comrades on /r/communism (obviously tarred as a “rush to defend Mugabe” by anti-communist subreddits like /r/enoughcommiespam and /r/Zimbabwe) responded by saying...

21Feb

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China, Zimbabwe

“It is homeland or death”: Breaking the neo-colonial chains in Zimbabwe

NOVANEWS Flag of the independent Republic of Zimbabwe currently. In 1996, the neo-colonial chains, of the post-independence period, began to be broken. In the presidential election that year, Mugabe was elected with over 92% of the vote, while Abel Muzorewa of the United Parties, the moderate opposition party, gained 4.8% of the vote. It was this year, the same year that Mugabe became the chair of the defense arm of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), that the Zanu-PF government began to back away from ESAP, as they realized its disastrous results. The following year, in 1997, the chains holding Zimbabwe to Britain were completely snapped. The government began to seize land owned by a “handful of white farmers” which some called a “steadily increasing autocracy,” not rea...

22Nov

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Africa, Zimbabwe

Military is complicit in Mugabe misrule

NOVANEWS Statement of the Global Pan African Movement on the intervention in Zimbabwe AFP Julia Lynne Walker The Global Pan African Movement condemns the military intervention in Zimbabwe in no uncertain terms. The generals of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces have been part of the repressive government. The huge problems of Zimbabwe cannot be resolved by the same soldiers who have been partners with Mugabe in the past 37 years. On November 14, the military of Zimbabwe seized the radio and television operations of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, ZBC. By the morning of November 15 the world woke up to the news that the top officers of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces (ZDF) had intervened to place Mr. Robert Mugabe in custody. In the typical fashion ...

22Nov

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Africa, Zimbabwe

Opportunity for a new political culture in Zimbabwe

NOVANEWS Daily Maverick Esau J. Mavindidze The political crisis offers citizens an opportunity to examine the path Zimbabwe has traveled since independence. Zimbabwe needs to build a new democracy. Citizens must ask themselves whether they want to join the rat race towards self-enrichment of a few or work towards solutions that benefit all. That requires a new leadership that is totally accountable and dedicated to the people. The events of the past 48 hours have been more than dramatic and have kept most of us on edge. Now that we are no longer speculating and a clearer picture has emerged, we need to start thinking about what brought us here, and more importantly, where we are going from here as a nation. Given where we have been, perhaps this moment was in...

19Nov

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Africa, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe: President Robert Mugabe told to resign from office in 24 hours after being stripped of party leadership

NOVANEWS The ruling ZANU-PF party stripped Mugabe of his party powers while issuing him an ultimatum to vacate the office of President within 24 hours. by: ADAM GARRIE Embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been formally removed from his leadership of the ZANU-PF party which before its merger with rival Zimbabwe African People’s Union in 1987, he helped to lead during the period of UDI Rhodesia, as the Zimbabwe African National Union. Later, he was told by ZANU-PF that if he did not relinquish the Presidency in 24 hours, his safety could not be guaranteed. This represents a seismic blow to Mugabe whose leadership of ZANU-PF was seen as all but permanent in the eyes of many Zimbabweans and international observers. Additionally, Mugabe’s wife Grace has been expelled from t...

18Nov

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Africa, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe: Domestic Rivalries, US-China Competition Underlie Political Crisis

NOVANEWS The political turmoil in Zimbabwe is a product of both domestic factional rivalries and broader international political intrigue. Don’t let the corporate media impose its usual superficial narrative on the events in Zimbabwe; as with all things Africa, there’s so much more than meets the eye. by Eric Draitser NEW YORK (Analysis) — On November 14, 2017 military forces in Zimbabwe took control of the streets, sequestered President Robert Mugabe in his residence, and publicly announced that the kinda sorta but not really coup was merely a clean-up operation intended to “target criminals.” While the claim does have some merit – Zimbabwe’s government, like those of nearly all nations in Africa and the Global South, grapples with endemic corruption – it remains difficult to ...

16Nov

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Africa, Zimbabwe

Civil society organizations ask Mugabe to step down

NOVANEWS Zimbabwe CSOs joint statement on the military take over Zimbabwe CSOs More than a hundred civil society organizations have urged Robert Mugabe to resign as president of Zimbabwe following military intervention in the country’s politics. The organizations have also asked the military to ensure restoration of the constitutional order and an inclusive process to resolve Zimbabwe’s political and socio-economic problems. We the undersigned civil society organisations guided by the Constitution express our concern over the political developments in Zimbabwe, today Wednesday 15 November 2017. We call for the peaceful and constitutional resolution of the situation and the immediate return of Constitutional order and democracy in Zimbabwe. As civil society we rei...

16Nov

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Zimbabwe

Britain urges no violence in Zimbabwe

NOVANEWS Britain on Wednesday expressed cautious optimism after the military took control of Zimbabwe, but warned against any transition "from one unelected tyrant to the next". "The situation is still fluid, and we would urge restraint on all sides because we want to see and we would call for an avoidance of violence," Prime Minister Theresa May told MPs. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson urged caution in predicting the future of President Robert Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since its independence from Britain in 1980. "Hopes have been disappointed so many times. But there is hope, there is a real chance now that things will change in Zimbabwe," he said. "But it's by no means a foregone conclusion. Everybody will have to work hard together to achieve that. "Nobody wants ...