Challenges to Education in Zimbabwe

When Robert Mugabe became the president of the independent nation of Zimbabwe in 1980, he pledged to make education his top priority and the new majority-led government introduced an education for all policy. By 2004, the literacy rate in Zimbabwe had jumped (from 77 percent in 1982) to 90 percent, a figure that placed the [...]

Money Flows Between Migrants in Africa

How does money flow to and within Africa? Information about money flows is unreliable, so SAMP did a study to find out more.  The study, called MARS (Migration and Remittances Survey), shows how money flows between countries.
With the exception of Zimbabwe, most of the migrant movements and subsequent remittances flows are intra-regional. In the Zimbabwean [...]

Developing a Transformation Agenda for Zimbabwe

New book by Shari Eppel and Brian Raftopoulos
This book, which emerged out of a series of roundtable discussions between shareholders in Zimbabwe and the broader South African region, analyses the political and economic constraints on Zimbabwe’s democratic transformation. It considers the case for a transitional justice or “truth commission” process in the country, the need [...]

Monthly Monitoring of GNU Watch – Zimbabwe, May 2009

As Zimbabwe extracts itself from years of turbulence, the Global Political Agreement (GPA) provides the map for the way forward. Thus, monitoring the implementation of the GPA provides some measure of understanding of progress in Zimbabwe.  Read this analysis from May 2009.

The Judiciary and Politics

By Shameela Seedat
When the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) meets later this year to consider who will replace four titans of the Constitutional Court when their terms expire this October, it will be one of the first real opportunities to assess where our courts stand since this year’s election.
The departing judges are Pius Langa, Yvonne Mokgoro, [...]

SA Needs Pragmatism and Reassurance – Pre-State of the Nation

A month has passed since the April 22 election. The South African economy has entered its first official recession since the early 1990s. With a contraction of 6.4 percent in gross domestic product (GDP) in the last quarter and zero percent growth forecast for the second quarter of this year, all indications are that the [...]