Southern Africa: Zimbabwe Revolution By the People, for the People

The impending SADC summit which will be held in Zimbabwe on the 17th of August has generated a tense political environment in which there is suspicion by the government that the general population, democracy activists and opposition parties are planning to mount street protests to express their grievances against the disputed 2023 elections and the shrinking democratic space under Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Zimbabwe is indeed ripe for a popular revolution, however, launching and timing unguided street…