Vol 51 No 8 | ZIMBABWE Spiriting away diamonds 16th April 2010 Backed by Police Commissioner General and junta member Augustine Chihuri, the Governor of Manicaland Chris Mushohwe has barred the parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and En...
Vol 51 No 8 | SOUTH AFRICAZIMBABWE The Malema effect 16th April 2010 The royal reception accorded to South Africa’s firebrand youth leader Julius Malema in Zimbabwe over the Easter weekend has proved counterproductive (AC Vol 51 No 7). As President ...
Vol 51 No 7 | ZIMBABWE The diamond mine drama 2nd April 2010 A politically charged dispute over ownership of diamond fields in Chiadzwa could turn into an international lawsuit Hot Springs, some 100 kilometres south of Mutare, once aspired to be a spa resort but the gouty planters in its colonial-style hotel have been replaced by Lebanese dealers from Wes...
Vol 51 No 7 | SOUTH AFRICAZIMBABWE Easter parade 2nd April 2010 After South African President Jacob Zuma's 16-18 March trip to Harare, the abrasive Chairman of the African National Congress Youth League, Julius Malema, is due to arrive in Zimba...
Vol 51 No 6 | ZIMBABWE Reluctantly to the election 19th March 2010 The political stalemate in the coalition is blocking reforms and economic recovery and may force a snap election – if South Africa can’t forge a deal President Jacob Zuma’s suggestion that fresh elections might offer a way out of the current impasse has sparked off a complex game of ‘call my bluff’ amongst the parties to the pow...
Vol 51 No 6 | ZIMBABWE The next revolution 19th March 2010 The crisis at Telecel Zimbabwe points to the political and economic problems with the new indigenisation laws, which many see as yet another form of patronage for the Zimbabwe Afri...
Vol 51 No 4 | BOTSWANAZIMBABWE A clash at the border 19th February 2010 A confrontation between Harare and Gaborone over a wandering pride of lions has escalated into a serious bilateral rift The formulation of foreign policy in Zimbabwe is the jealously guarded function of the President’s Office and, through it, the Central Intelligence Organisation. The Foreign Minist...
Vol 51 No 4 | ZIMBABWE Petrified Politburos 19th February 2010 The old ruling party’s new Politburo, announced on 11 February, is anything but new. The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s 49-member policy-making committee, announ...
Vol 51 No 3 | ZIMBABWE Economic clouds, platinum lining 5th February 2010 Foreign mining companies benefit more from the halting recovery as local political problems mount Hefty political obstacles block further economic progress in Zimbabwe after last year’s impressive turnaround. Mining operations, such as those involving gold and platinum, will gr...
Vol 51 No 3 | ZIMBABWE The President ends his holiday 5th February 2010 As the plotting and squabbles in the ZANU-PF break into the open, the military launches a new round of farm seizures The first anniversary of the power-sharing agreement was inauspicious, as all three parties in government argue over the pace of political reform and blame each other for holding u...