Wicknell Chivayo and the presidents: Mystery of the man who moved in Africa’s highest political circles
By Gabriel Manyati
Wicknell Chivayo’s extraordinary life posed a question that his sudden death has sharpened rather than settled: how did a Zimbabwean businessman, known...
Inside the explosive Mnangagwa-Chiwenga power struggle that has plunged ZANU PF into crisis
By Gabriel Manyati
The ZANU PF Politburo meeting scheduled for 2pm on Friday 9 October 2026 never took place. Members had already begun assembling at...
How Zimbabwe’s government scuttled a proposed ZBC reform project
By Hopewell Chin’ono
Earlier this week, I met the former British ambassador to Zimbabwe, Catriona Laing, in London. It was wonderful to see her again...
The theatre of grief: Access, Ollah 7, and the spectacle of Chivayo’s funeral
By Gabriel Manyati
Open a mobile phone anywhere in Harare, Bulawayo, Mutare, or across the diaspora in Leicester, Luton, and Johannesburg, and you are immediately...
Mnangagwa’s high stakes gamble: Can he make America and China compete for Zimbabwe?
By Gabriel Manyati
America spent years looking at Zimbabwe through the lens of sanctions, elections, human rights and governance. Now Washington is looking increasingly at...
