Vol 51 No 18 | ZIMBABWE Malema loses a friend 10th September 2010 Robert Mugabe’s bid for Kwame Nkrumah’s pan-African kente cloth won mixed reviews at the African National Congress’s Youth Conference near Johannesburg. Tongai Kasukuwere, Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front...
Vol 51 No 18 | ZIMBABWE Indigens and expatriates 10th September 2010 The National Indigenisation and Empowerment Board is supposed to ensure that 51% of the economy is indigenised by 2015. However, its original target of a blanket 51% indigenous...
Vol 51 No 16 | ZIMBABWE Bullfighting 6th August 2010 The Politburo of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front has always regarded the award of hero status as within its sole gift, something hotly contested by the Movement...
Vol 51 No 15 | ZIMBABWE What mattered was the football 23rd July 2010 World Cup fever overshadowed both a spectacular political row and preparations for a new constitution Robert Mugabe has earned a reputation as one of the globe's leading gatecrashers but his poise, self-confidence and chutzpah have not rubbed off on his travelling entourage. Officially...
Vol 51 No 15 | ZIMBABWE Restless spirits 23rd July 2010 The Ndebele can't agree on a living leader and many still take their inspiration from the late Joshua Nkomo Sibangilizwe Nkomo, the sole surviving son of Joshua Nkomo (1917-99), is campaigning to exhume his father's remains from the 'foreign' soil of Heroes' Acre in Harare and transfer...
Vol 51 No 13 | ZIMBABWE Diplomacy by other means 25th June 2010 Harare’s foreign policy is splitting at the seams – and so is the awkward ZANU-PF-MDC coalition South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma is beginning to tire of the political impasse in Harare. We hear that Zuma’s office has just sent a stern note to the...
Vol 51 No 13 | ZIMBABWE Newsdays and the old days 25th June 2010 The new Media Commission is finally operational and is issuing licences to publish newspapers. After a year’s foot-dragging, during which the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) tried...
Vol 51 No 12 | ZIMBABWE Abbey's all clear 11th June 2010 The recommendation by Abbey Chikane, a monitor for the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme for diamonds, that Zimbabwe be allowed to resume exports from the much contested Marange fields...
Vol 51 No 11 | ZIMBABWE Squashing the judges 28th May 2010 The courts, despite everything, persist in doing justice sometimes and the President is not amused The acquittal of Roy Bennett, Deputy Minister-designate of Agriculture and Treasurer of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), on 10 May gave President Robert Mugabe the chance to...
Vol 51 No 11 | ZIMBABWE Legal limits 28th May 2010 The Harare legal profession is enjoying itself at the expense of fellow practitioner Jonathan Samkange, a favourite in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front who shuns the human...