The role of politics in developing countries makes it ubiquitous in all major aspects of national development. In Zimbabwe, international and national politics broadly stands at the center of household vulnerability. There is therefore a huge nexus between development and resilience. A plethora of factors that have direct impact on the nature of resilience at the household level also exist. Key amongst them includes, national political ideologies, nature of institutions, political competition and political culture. The nature and trends of the aforementioned structural and ideological factors to a greater extent reduces national resilience at the household level. This chapter examines the role of politics against resilience building in Zimbabwe. Practically, the country is a politically contested territory and allegorically presents a game of chess in which the masses constitute the cannon fodder. Their resilience has been consciously or unconsciously expended for contestants’ survival. The Pressure and Release Model and in particular the Progression to Vulnerability Model is adopted in explaining the conundrum of politics and resilience in Zimbabwe. This chapter is a result of reviewed literature that was randomly selected. The literature provided data from academic journals, books, reports and studies from national and international institutions. It is concluded that politics in Zimbabwe is vastly reproducing vulnerability. Hence, possible solutions for reversing the trend are advanced.