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Zimbabwe Webinar
Good Governance Africa and the SAPES Trust hosted a public webinar, entitled “Facing reality: The impossibility of the reform agenda and need for a new international conference on Zimbabwe”.
This informative webinar, that took place on Tuesday, 30 March, engaged with a range of expert panellists to discuss a new strategy for the resolution of the crisis in Zimbabwe.
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