by Talking Humanities | Aug 9, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics
Commonwealth expert, Dr Sue Onslow teases out the challenges created by Zimbabwe’s ‘harmonised’ elections and the awkward questions they pose for the organisation. The announcement of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s victory in the 2018 Zimbabwe elections – winning by a...
by Talking Humanities | May 31, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics, Human Rights, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Publications
‘The King is dead, long live the King!’, the traditional proclamation to announce the death of a monarch and herald the incoming replacement, could well have been used to announce the political demise of President Robert Mugabe on 21 November 2017, and the swift...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 16, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Publications
How did Zimbabwe get here? What is going on? What is likely to happen? The short answer is a combination of short-term factors, and long-term trends, economic structural pressures, political policy choices, and personal power agenda. Read this extract from Robert...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 3, 2015 | Graduate Study, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Training and Research
Abe Ncube has just completed the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights degree offered by SAS’s Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) for which he was awarded the Albie Sachs Prize for best dissertation. He explains how he used Zimbabwe as a case study to...
