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Zimbabwe at 46 cannot afford another hollow ritual of independence, where speeches echo liberation but institutions remain embalmed in permanence. Graphic: Supplied

Are they furniture? Zimbabwe at 46 and Africa’s curse of permanent officials

Our leaders are not furniture. Furniture does not loot diamonds, mismanage treasuries or unleash militias. Furniture does not cling to power with brazen arrogance. But in…

Tinashe Mushakavahu  (Delwyn Verasamy)

Threading 40 years of Zimbabwean writing

Kwanele Sosibo talks to Tinashe Mushakavanhu, the co-editor of Some Writers Can Give you Two Heartbeats, about the impetus behind the book

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)

Reform on the cards as Zanu-PF shifts hardline stance

Mnangagwa says Zanu-PF in particular and Zimbabwe in general must embrace the rule of law and constitutionalism

Nine lives: President Robert Mugabe spared Information
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Mugabe ousted by ‘military coup’ claims exiled Jonathan Moyo

Moyo also said that the new government under Mnangagwa was an "illegal regime" that had struggled to assert its legitimacy.

Critics of Numsa’s secretary general, Irvin Jim, allege the union is drifting from its worker base and risks being captured by its investment arm to become a vehicle for petty bourgeois accumulation. (Gallo)

What we know so far of the events of the military take-over in Zimbabwe

“The National Democratic Project” is in full swing but what does it mean?

Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is accused of fanning factionalism within the ruling Zanu-PF party.

Mugabes launch scathing attack on VP Mnangagwa

Mugabe called for unity within his fragmented party ahead of next year’s elections.

Editor’s arrest a ‘warning’ for Moyo

Information minister Jonathan Moyo was put under pressure to explain the appointment of ‘hostile’ journalist Edmund Kudzayi.

Nine lives: President Robert Mugabe spared Information

Zim: ‘Weevil’ Moyo walloped but wriggles free

Livid Zanu-PF officials say they will monitor the minister closely to ensure he toes the party line.

Power play: Vice-President Joice Mujuru

Zim: Moyo’s project backfires

Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Jonathan Moyo is accused of using the media hearings as a battlefield to curry public favour.

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Zim: Moyo survives the chop

The vice-president’s allies won Mugabe to their cause, and the information minister is down – but not yet out.

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe chides ‘divisive’ minister

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Saturday accused his on-again, off-again information minister of fomenting divisions within the ruling party.

Moyo orders audit, fires board of ZBC

The minister of information has initiated a purge at the Zimbabwe broadcaster but staff say he must also stop it from acting as a Zanu-PF mouthpiece.

Zim: No money for revival plan

Zimbabwe has a good plan for reviving the economy but how it will finance the massive spending is raising questions.

Can Moyo rescue the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation?

­Jonathan Moyo, the ZBC’s new information and publicity minister has sparked hope in employees that the station can be turned around.

End of the political line for Moyo

Two-timing Zanu-PF leader Jonathan Moyo has lost his constituency to an MDC candidate, putting himself at risk after Robert Mugabe’s warning.

Moyo pulls no punches on Zim indigenisation

Zanu-PF politician Jonathan Moyo says resource nationalism will continue to be a party platform after the election.

Mugabe ill health reports dismissed

Top Mugabe official raises ghost of tribal massacres

A top official has issued an unprecedented condemnation of the massacres of up to 20 000 civilians of Zimbabwe’s minority Ndebele people.

The return of Mugabe’s propagandist

The return of Mugabe’s propagandist

Former information minister Jonathan Moyo is back in Zanu-PF’s inner circle and causing uncertainty among its warring factions.

Zim is ‘ready’ to bury hatchet with UK

Zim is ‘ready’ to bury hatchet with UK

Robert Mugabe’s chief spin doctor has signalled that Zimbabwe is ready to bury decades of hostility towards Britain.

Deciphering Jonathan Moyo’s second coming

When Jonathan Moyo was relieved of his cabinet post and booted out of Zanu-PF in 2005, the news was greeted with a cacophony of mirth.