History Matters

  13 October 2010  By James Muzondidya, Research Manager – Zimbabwe Institute  This essay is part of a new initiative by the Trust that aims to open up the intellectual debates on current politics in the country, and to provide more extended discussions around key issues of central concern to the Trust, such as the [...]

What to make of the war of words that has erupted between Jonathan Jansen and Jessie Duarte? Briefly, ANC spokesperson Duarte is demanding that recently installed University of the Free State Rector Jonathan Jansen apologise for calling Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga a “lazy and incompetent minister, if one takes into account her record as [...]

Sokwanele – Enough is Enough – Zimbabwe PROMOTING NON-VIOLENT PRINCIPLES TO ACHIEVE DEMOCRACY Zimbabwe Inclusive Government Watch (ZIG Watch) is tracking articles and reports which provide examples of violations of the agreement between Zanu PF and the two Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Formations signed in Harare on 15 September 2008. This report reflects a [...]

Human Rights Watch has just released a new report on Zimbabwe documenting the problems of law enforcement, human rights abuses, political interference in the rule of law that has besieged the country for the last eight years and beyond. Recommendations are also included for future Zimbabwean governments, the SADC community and international donors. This promises [...]

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The terrorist’s attacks on civilians and government forces by armed militants in Mumbai have once again spread mayhem and fear in the Indian sub continent. It is an attack that replicates the hundreds of conflicts across the world which continues to underline the fact how a small group of [...]

People Against Suffering, Suppression, Oppression and Poverty (PASSOP) is a community based NGO that has been working closely with refugees in the Cape Town area. PASSOP is chaired by Braam Hannekom, a Zimbabwean who has been living in South Africa for some time, but is fuelled by a small team and many volunteers. The work [...]

Zimbabwe’s parties are close to breaking a deadlock over a power-sharing deal and “history is being made” at talks between President Robert Mugabe and rival Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition MDC said on Wednesday. MDC chief negotiator Tendai Biti, asked by reporters when talks would be concluded, said: “If you pray hard, tomorrow. History is being [...]

States in Transition Observatory, an ongoing project of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), together with Amnesty International is currently hosting a photographic exhibition at Constitutional Hill exhibiting pictures of victims of torture carried out between the 29 March election and the 27 June presidential election run-off in Zimbabwe 2008. IDASA has made [...]

Imraan Baccus – The Mugabe regime did not, as some will argue, start off well and slowly descend into authoritarianism. It was always ruthlessly and violently intolerant of opposition ….