Zimbabwe’s long standing dictator Robert Mugabe dies

Leonard Chiwoniso Mhute is a member of CWI Zimbabwe. Yesterday, supporters and African leaders attended the funeral of Zimbabwe’s long standing dictator Robert Mugabe who has died at the age of 95. He leaves behind his family and cronies filthy rich and a trail of miseries under the brutal authoritarian Zanu-PF regime for the masses […]

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Zimbabwe’s Crisis Deepens: Mass protests and brutal repression

Leonard Chiwoniso Mhute and Sodindwa Malandelilanga are members of CWI Zimbabwe. On 16 August, the regime in Zimbabwe brutally attacked street demonstrations against the country’s seemingly endless economic and political crisis. The ruling elite fears a protest revolt such as in Sudan, having clearly seen the strength of the masses in action in the three […]

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Zimbabwe: Mugabe has gone – but his regime remains in power

Weizmann Hamilton and Tinovimbanashe Gwenyaya are members of the Workers’ and Socialist Party (CWI in South Africa).   The takeover of power by the Zimbabwe defence force is a military coup in all but name. It represents a turning point in post-independence Zimbabwe and the almost certain end of Mugabe’s reign. The military take-over was […]

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