The Global Freedom to Create Prize honors artists who champion the cause of human rights and encourage others to stand up for the freedom to create.  Orient Global, a private investment group based in Singapore, established the contest in 2008 with the belief that “creative freedom is powerful…prosperous societies are founded upon creativity…and societies that [...]

Today, Morgan Tsvangirai, opposition leader and prime minister of Zimbabwe, was given a copy of the Zimbabwe Papers, a collection of serious policy suggestions and studies that offer a way for Zimbabwe to rebuild and regain it’s place as a prosperous country once again.We’ve mentioned this report in the past.
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Nine African think tanks, concerned about conditions in Zimbabwe are the co-sponsors of the newly released report, Zimbabwe Papers: A Positive Agenda for Zimbabwean Renewal. The Zimbabwe Papers contain proposals for reform that, if implemented, would not only rapidly improve conditions for the long-suffering people of Zimbabwe, but also make them once again a thriving [...]

The economy in Zimbabwe has virtually collapsed, inflation is running at 1,700 percent and unemployment is currently at 70 percent. Zambian president, Levy Mwanawasa, described Zimbabwe as a “sinking Titanic” which millions were abandoning. This is the picture that George B.N. Ayittey paints of Zimbabwe in his recent article which calls for “an urgent resolution” [...]

Implemented in 2000, Zimbabwe’s “Fast Track Land Reform Programme” evicted some 4,000 white commercial farmers and their families from their lands. More than 1.3 million farm workers were subjected to 8 long years of political violence, intimidation and torture.
The Coalition for Liberal and Market Studies, a Harare-based free market policy-dialogue think tank, just launched a [...]

Are you frustrated by the growing humanitarian crisis and increasing human rights abuses in Zimbabwe? Make your voice heard. On Friday, December 19th, there will be a demonstration against this humanitarian crisis at the Zimbabwe Embassy in Washington, DC. The event will take place from 2-5pm at 1608 New Hampshire Ave NW. For more information, [...]

In 2007, Rejoice Ngwenya established COMALISO, a think tank that promotes free market ideas in Zimbabwe.

Rejoice Ngwenya of Harare-based Coalition for Liberal and Market Solutions (COMALISO) facilitated the development of a document that outlines why a free market economy must be a fundamental component of Zimbabwe’s national policy. COMALISO, the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and others have invited two hundred members of Parliament and thirty [...]

With inflation reaching 231,000,000%, unemployment soaringtoward 80% and power sharing agreements dissolving, it is easy to get discouraged about the future of Zimbabwe. The good news is that there is hope and Rejoice Ngwenya’s Coalition for Market & Liberal Solutions (COMALISO) is at the center of it.

Despite the recent power sharing agreement between Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvingirai, Jasson Urbach of the Free Market Foundation of Southern Africa says that the European Union and the United States are justified in remaining skeptical of any agreement that continues to put Mugabe at the helm of the country. Urbach reports that Zimbabwe under [...]