South Africa Should Press Zimbabwe to End Repression

Click to expand Image Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa addresses the media at State House in Harare, Zimbabwe, March, 17, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi A high-level delegation from South Africa has been dispatched to Zimbabwe to try to find a solution to the country’s escalating economic and political crisis. The team, led by the head of South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) party Secretary-General Ace Magashule, will meet officials from Zimbabwe’s ruling African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party. Its priority should be calling on the…

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