Zimbabwe and the International Monetary Fund want to kiss and make up. In 1995, the Fund cut Zimbabwe out of its books, for failing to keep the promises...

Africa’s only constitutional ‘Christian Nation’ was shaken by the events of 25 December, when ex-President Kenneth Kaunda, once called the nation’s saviour, was arrested and detained. The shock...

The lifts at Chester House on Speke Avenue in Harare no longer run up to the tenth floor, where the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has its head...

For presentation, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s 11 March budget announcement got full marks. Focusing on the country’s critical demand for education and jobs, Manuel won praise from unlikely...

The prospect of gas, and of customers for it, has sparked a wave of exploration in Mozambique and helped boost two planned industrial corridors - from Beira along...

Overwhelmingly successful at the polls and certain to win next year’s national elections, and most of the provincial ones too, the African National Congress, however, has major problems....

The ANC’s top policy-making body, the National Working Committee (NWC), was elected by secret ballot at the NEC’s three- day session in late February. The voting figures on...

Jonas Savimbi is circling the wagons around the planalto heartland of his rebel União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola. In the last few weeks of February...

President Robert Mugabe’s government has moved the goalposts again in the latest episode in the cellular telephone saga. For four and a half years Strive Masiyiwa has been...

South Africa faces tough times. The African National Congress government hopes that foreign banks will help it through them, while the bankers are looking to make money from...