Oiriginally published at Law&Liberty. 

With the upcoming BIPPA government compensation drive happening in Zimbabwe, this article focuses on the issue of property rights in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean political timeline has been marred by sheer disrespect for property rights by both the colonialist and the post-colonial governments. In comparison with the systems that followed, it is necessary to understand that the precolonial political systems were more libertarian.

The encyclical Magnifica Humanitas by Pope Leo XIV is a remarkable text in many ways. It recognizes the dangers of technological concentration and the threat that large private platforms pose to human dignity.

Western philosophy begins not with a system, but with a question. When Thales of Miletus asked what underlying principle governed the cosmos, he inaugurated something far greater than a theory about nature. He introduced the conviction that reality possesses an intelligible order accessible to human reason.