Vol 5 (AAC) No 10 | ZIMBABWECHINABRIEFING Diamonds give you wings 31st July 2012 Anjin Investments is attracting even more attention from the authorities after a Global Witness report released in late June highlighted the company’s links to the security services and...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 9 | ZIMBABWECHINA Parting gifts 30th June 2012 As new national elections loom, both parties in Zimbabwe’s coalition government are building stronger ties with Beijing China’s new Ambassador Lin Lin takes up his post in Harare this month. Ambassador Lin follows the outgoing Xin Shunkang, who completed a highly successful two-and-a-half-year tour of...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 7 | ZIMBABWEINDIA Steel while the iron is hot 4th May 2012 Essar’s investment in the former ZISCO operations have slowed again as negotiations over access to mining rights delay development Essar’s deal for rehabilitating NewZim Steel (formerly the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company) is teetering on the brink of collapse.
Vol 5 (AAC) No 4 | ZIMBABWEINDIABRIEFING Diamonds are a rough business 10th February 2012 The two-day state visit of India’s Commerce Minister Anand Sharma in mid-January gave Indian investors the opportunity to complain about the restrictions and obstacles that – despite decades...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 2 | ZIMBABWEINDIABRIEFING Essar takes control of Zisco 13th December 2011 India’s Essar Group has at last won control of Zimbabwe’s iron and steel works, after months of infighting in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front threatened to derail...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 1 | ZIMBABWECHINA Harare in the sky with diamonds 10th November 2011 The government is working on a diamond-backed deal to buy new aeroplanes as the Kimberley Process allows the country to export gems again The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) government has tried to disguise its plan for China Sonangol to finance new airplanes for Air Zimbabwe. The joint venture between...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 1 | ZIMBABWECHINA Protection makes a racket 10th November 2011 South Korean companies had worried that they would not receive the same advantages as Chinese companies (AAC Vol 4 No 12, Faith, Grace and intervention). However, Indigenisation Minister...
Vol 52 No 25 | ZIMBABWE Pachyderms in the parlour 16th December 2011 The threat to the economy from the indigenisation policy is becoming a big issue but for Mugabe’s party it’s non-negotiable The Minister of Economic Planning and Investment Promotion laid it on the line: 'As long as the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act remains in its current form,' warned...
Vol 52 No 24 | ZIMBABWE ZANU's honey trap 2nd December 2011 The Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front’s tacticians once more showed their talent for wrong-footing Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai when he decided to cancel his wedding to a Harare...
Vol 52 No 23 | ZIMBABWE Polls, leaks and expropriations 18th November 2011 The coalition parties have agreed on holding elections next year and campaigning is already in full swing Rather than endure another year of the same political combat, both leaders of the main parties jointly announced on 10 November that they would press for early elections...