IN THE NEWS
Facing the Aid Freeze: What We Must Do Now and Tomorrow
Coming to Terms with the AID Freeze On 6 February 2025, at the invitation of the National Association for Non-Governmental (NANGO), I participated in the webinar on the impact of the United States President Donald Trump’s Executive Order on Re-evaluating and Realigning United States Foreign...
Dzikamai Bere,
February 7, 2025
14 min read
Solidarity Shapes the Human Struggle
In Solidarity with the People of Mozambique and Swaziland Last year on 26 November 2024, I moderated the 7th Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Awards hosted by Southern Defenders in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was a special moment for many reasons. One of them is...
Dzikamai Bere,
January 30, 2025
7 min read
The NGO Director of the Year Award: A Call to Lead Better for the Good
It is a good day to show gratitude to God, the Almighty, who allows us ordinary people to do the extraordinary. On 25 October 2024, NANGO Zimbabwe awarded me the NGO Director of the Year Award at an awards night held in Nyanga as part...
Dzikamai Bere,
December 29, 2024
3 min read
IN DEPTH
The Liberation Struggle on Trial: Was Ian Smith Better?
Is this the land we died for? This is a line from Winky D and Shingai’s masterpiece Dzimba Dzemabwe off the album Eureka. In this track, and many others, Winky D contributes to the enduring conversation on the value of the liberation legacy in a...
Dzikamai Bere,
December 30, 2024
10 min read
Strong Teams for Sustainable Organisational and Personal Growth and Impact
1.0 Introduction Teamwork makes the dream work. John C. Maxwell Many years ago, when I was still on the periphery of leadership, each time I heard the term “teambuilding”, what came into my mind was that annual trip that you take as a team to...
Dzikamai Bere,
October 25, 2024
19 min read
Africa University, Berghof Foundation Launch New Mediation Network in Zimbabwe
Africa University’s Institute of Peace Leadership and Governance (IPLG) successfully hosted a high-level symposium on September 20, which marked the official launch of a new innovative mediation programme, the Insider Mediators Network in Zimbabwe, with the support of the Berghof Foundation and the European Union....
Dzikamai Bere,
September 25, 2024
5 min read