Mary Mundeya When Zimbabwe’s 2013 constitution introduced a gender quota to reserve 60 parliamentary seats for women through proportional representation, it was celebrated as a long-overdue victory. For a country where women’s voices were historically muffled in governance, the move felt revolutionary. But over a decade later, reality is much bleaker. As the 2023 elections…
On a sunny April afternoon, 41-year-old Tawanda Zvamaida sat with four friends at an outdoor bar. They were discussing recent antigovernment protests where police arrested about half of the 200 protesters. On March 31, protesters gathered following a call for demonstrations by a former member of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s party. Zvamaida lives in Chitungwiza,…
Regina Pasipanodya / Mary Mundeya Linda Masarira is one of the women in Zimbabwe, vocal on the country’s political landscape, leading the Labour, Economists and African Democrats (LEAD) party, but her desire to contest as a presidential candidate in the August 23 elections was shuttered just two months before the polls. Masarira could not file…
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