On the surface, South Africa’s assumption of the presidency of the United Nations Security Council earlier this month has no relevance for the Zimbabwe electoral crisis.…

A couple of years ago a friend of mine from law school accosted me at a breakfast table in a Harare hotel. I introduced him to my breakfast meeting companion, the director of a…

The crackdown of March 11 has been dubbed Zimbabwe’s "3/11" — as if to imply that it marks a tipping point in the country’s history. Whether this turns out to be true will depend…

Five years into the crisis, it is evident that Pretoria and Africa’s position on Zimbabwe cannot be called quiet diplomacy. And so the question should not be what African leaders…