THE LOWLY NEWSPAPER MAN: Zimbabwe’s descent into dictatorship and the peril of African leaders’ apathy
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THE LOWLY NEWSPAPER MAN Zimbabwe’s descent into dictatorship and the peril of African leaders’ apathy The Southern African Development Community’s governments, with South Africa being the most powerful, have been watching Zimbabwe’s slide into a constitutionally entrenched dictatorship in silence. This has consequences, not just for the country whose democracy is being killed, but for its neighbours as well. On both occasions the newspapers, faced with the might of one of the country’s most formidable legal firms and representing the most powerful (and one with deep pockets), buckled.
- ▪THE LOWLY NEWSPAPER MAN Zimbabwe’s descent into dictatorship and the peril of African leaders’ apathy The Southern African Development Community’s governments, with South Africa being the most powerful, have been watching Zimbabwe’s slide i
- ▪This has consequences, not just for the country whose democracy is being killed, but for its neighbours as well.
- ▪On both occasions the newspapers, faced with the might of one of the country’s most formidable legal firms and representing the most powerful (and one with deep pockets), buckled.
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THE LOWLY NEWSPAPER MAN Zimbabwe’s descent into dictatorship and the peril of African leaders’ apathy The Southern African Development Community’s governments, with South Africa being the most powerful, have been watching Zimbabwe’s slide into a constitutionally entrenched dictatorship in silence. This has consequences, not just for the country whose democracy is being killed, but for its neighbours as well. By Mondli Makhanya 25 Jul 2026 Mondli Makhanya | Emmerson Mnangagwa at US-Africa Business Summit, 2023 (Illustrative image: Wikimedia Commons | Bernard Kotze using Figma | ChatGPTimage2) Dive Deeper Speed Read Summary Listen Dive Deeper Prominent Zimbabwean businessman and newspaper publisher Trevor Ncube penned a spine-chilling piece on Substack this week about how, in 2024 and 2025,…
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