Roger Southall, a professor of sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, explains how and why Pretoria's diplomacy has so far failed to use Zimbabwe's dependency on South Africa to force the Mnangagwa regime to stop its ongoing persecution of opposition leaders, dissenters, rights defenders and journalists.
Tag: Human Rights
Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum condemns Mnangagwa government’s continuing crackdown on human rights defendersZimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum condemns Mnangagwa government’s continuing crackdown on human rights defenders
In this press release, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum condemns the Mnangagwa government's latest arrest of human rights defenders and criminalisation of human rights work in Zimbabwe in violation of fundamental rights and freedoms protected by the Constitution of Zimbabwe and international law.
Mnangagwa regime’s ongoing brutalities “betray promises to create a new Zimbabwe,” says U.S.Mnangagwa regime’s ongoing brutalities “betray promises to create a new Zimbabwe,” says U.S.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ongoing brutal crackdown on opposition supporters, rights defenders, labour leaders, and ordinary Zimbabweans, and recent Internet blockade, "betray promises to create a new Zimbabwe," said the U.S. State Department in a statement issued this week.
Fantasy that Mnangagwa would fix Zimbabwe now fully exposedFantasy that Mnangagwa would fix Zimbabwe now fully exposed
Zimbabwe security forces' extrajudicial killing of 12 people during recent protests against the government's hiking of fuel price by 150% has dashed Zimbabweans' hope for real democracy under President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Mnangagwa regime blocks Internet access to conceal Zimbabwe security forces’ extrajudicial killings, “systematic torture”Mnangagwa regime blocks Internet access to conceal Zimbabwe security forces’ extrajudicial killings, “systematic torture”
In yet another clear manifestation of Zimbabwe's burgeoning digital authoritarianism, the Mnangagwa regime imposed a total blockade on the Internet in a futile attempt to conceal security forces' "systematic torture" and extrajudicial killing of more than a dozen people during last week's protests against the president's hiking of fuel price