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Fall from grace

Zimbabwe: the secrets behind Mugabe’s demise

From the rise of "Gucci Grace" to the fall of "Comrade Bob", to Emmerson Mnangagwa's incredible escape, the book ‘Secrets of history’ recounts ... the riveting story of the presidential couple’s last weeks in power.

blame game

Zimbabwe: corruption and patronage do more damage than sanctions

Zimbabwe’s government has declared 25 October a national holiday. The country will come to a standstill. Schools are to be closed and the government ... has ordered head teachers to bus students to specified venues to attend ceremonies for a day against sanctions.

mourning or mobilising

Mugabe’s death is an awakening for Zimbabwe’s diaspora youth

A liberation hero to some and a tyrant to others, in death as in life former president Robert Mugabe polarises discussion among Zimbabwean activists, ... workers, and politicians around the world. However, much less heard from during these conversations have been the thousands of young people across the Zimbabwean diaspora who are still affected by his legacy every day.

grey power

Mugabe is dead, but old men still run southern Africa

The death of Robert Gabriel Mugabe (95) saw another of the first-generation leaders of newly independent southern African states leave the world ... stage.

Chain reaction

Libra’s likely volatility may limit scope to raise financial inclusion

According to Professor Bitange Ndemo, chairman of Kenya’s Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence Taskforce, Kenyans will be among the fastest ... adopters of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency.

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False promise

Zimbabwe’s EcoCash woes show dangers of early reliance on mobile money

Mobile money is not showing up at the crisis facing Zimbabwe. ...

counter point

Robert Mugabe: The greatest trick the devil ever played

The fallacy of the hero-turned-villain narrative of Robert Mugabe is the greatest trick this devil ever played. ...

regime change

Robert Mugabe: vain, insecure, cocooned

The death of Robert Mugabe in Singapore on the 6th of September, 2019, comes hardly two years since he was ousted in the 15 November 2017 coup, ... led by the very persons – namely, Emmerson Mnangagwa and Constantino Chiwenga – in whom Mugabe had restored both his confidence and security.

a luta continua

Mugabe’s legacy: an elite astray, but a consolidated country

Zimbabweans woke up to the news that their Liberation president, Robert Mugabe, had died in a Singapore hospital bed. ...

crisis deepens

Zimbabwe: time for second government of national unity?

Zimbabwe is going through its worst socio-economic and political crisis in two decades. ...

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