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Hardly a week since the inauguration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the incumbent has stuck to his words and set up a commission on inquiry into the 1st of August events. With the UK Prime Minister Theresa May having affirmed Mnangagwa as the elected president in an interview on her recent trip to SA. The immediate appointment of the commissioners to look into the August 1 events is set to impress a number of prospective investors and the international community, much in line with the "Zimbabwe is open for business" mantra. Yet, like any political events in Zimbabwe, nothing always looks fine on the surface without an in-depth analysis. The commission is led by former SA President Kgalema Motlanthe and comprises of renowned British lawyer Richard Dixon, constitutional law expert Lovemore Madhuku (a losing presidential candidate), political science professor Charity Manyeruke, a known Zanu Pf sympathizer, former Commonwealth secretary-general Emeka Anyaoku and former ...

It’s almost two weeks since ZEC announced the results for the Zimbabwean presidential elections. It seems there is very little fuss over the parliamentary results. The MDC Alliance has since lodged a court application against the presidential results, which has led to a delay in inaugurating a new president. The post-election period has been marred by violence with innocent lives lost. I was engaged in a number of social media debates over the post-election violence that took place in Harare. It’s no doubt that the violence was a regrettable occurrence, equally regrettable was the alleged incisive messages by the opposition, which later on refuted that the violence was instigated by their party supporters. The images of the army firing shots in the streets of Harare, took me back to the November "coup not coup" period. Zimbabweans marched, celebrated and took selfies with the military as the people celebrated the fall of Robert Mugabe. Ironically, no one would have t...