The African Development Bank has approved three more years of funded dialogue on Zimbabwe’s arrears. The roadmap said the arrears would be cleared by early 2026.
A phone call from a stranger, a board that took a risk on a 33 year old, and five filled notebooks. What twenty years in the civic space taught me, and the three lessons I am carrying to AFRODAD.
African governments are restricting mineral exports, and the measures are being read as a continental assertion of resource sovereignty. The design of those measures tells a more modest story about who they were built to protect.
Two negotiations now under way will shape African public finance for a generation. The UN tax convention is in line-by-line drafting and the Borrowers’ Platform is building a debtor caucus that has never existed. Both will be won or lost in clauses that read like housekeeping.
Last week in Bulawayo, alongside Mine Entra 2026, we sat down with communities living on top of Zimbabwe’s critical minerals. The sessions were coordinated by the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association with support from the Southern Africa Trust. The purpose was to ask the people closest
This month marks one year since I began my journey at the Southern Africa Trust. When I joined, I was both excited and anxious. I wondered how my “radical” ideas, my curiosity about new ways of working with social movements, and my appetite for risk
I read with interest the article “The End of the Age of NGOs?How Civil Society Lost Its Post–Cold War Power by Professors Sarah Bush and Jennifer Hadden and the critique by Florian Irminger’s provocation “End NGOs: Only Authoritarians Win”. The two write ups, incisive in
In Zimbabwe’s protracted crisis, exhaustion has emerged as a powerful tool of authoritarian control. This analysis explores how systemic fatigue undermines civil society’s effectiveness through a personal lens, examining the intersection of political economy, human rights, and mental health in human rights defense work. The
I recently participated in the G20 Civil Society Kickoff meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, on October 15-16, 2024. This gathering marked the inception of civil society engagement for South Africa’s upcoming G20 presidency in 2025. The event was a significant opportunity to analyse the complex
On the 16th of March, the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (ZIMCODD) launched the #TakeActionZW Campaign as the sequel to the impactful and much recognized #HowFar campaign it started in 2021. I have been privileged to be leading ZIMCODD and learning in leaps and