Category: Politics

  • Re-Explaining Zimbabwe’s Incrementalist/ Conservative Politics

    Re-Explaining Zimbabwe’s Incrementalist/ Conservative Politics

    What has brought contemporary  Zimbabwean politics to where it is today?  The easy answer is the Southern African Development Community (SADC) mediated Global Political Agreement (GPA) in 2008.  While we can talk about the legacy of Zanu Pf’s rule, the liberation struggle there is always a time when the past meets the present.  The past is never enough…

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  • SADC is Organically Historical. It is Not Going to Go Away

    SADC is Organically Historical. It is Not Going to Go Away

    There are many conversations I have had with many comrades about the importance of what we now know to be the Southern African Development Community (SADC).  And most times these conversations have bordered on the dismissively ahistorical.  Wherein colleagues view SADC as this anti-democratic organisation in the region that is preventing new/ nascent opposition political parties…

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  • A Changing African Global Political Placement

    A Changing African Global Political Placement

    I am from the Global South.  For many that do not quite understand this latter term, it is one that replaced what used to be referred to as the “Third World”. This was based on colonialism and assumptions of the superiority of the Western World as well as attendant simplistic perceptions of what was in the…

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  • Zimbabwe’s New Land Policy As Replacement Capitalism

    By Takura Zhangazha* Zimbabwe’s President Mnangagwa recently announced a change to land policy within the context of under what we now historically refer to as the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP).  This was done at a routine weekly cabinet briefing by his minister of information.  This new land policy essentially changes the tenure system…

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