Vol 49 No 15 | ZIMBABWE ZANU-PF stashes the cash 18th July 2008 As they drag out negotiations with the opposition, the ruling party's acolytes are hiding millions of US dollars in offshore accounts Leading members of President Robert Mugabe's regime and their business allies are transferring tens of millions of US dollars out of Zimbabwe to safe havens to avoid the...
Vol 49 No 15 | ZIMBABWE Britain and the sanctions question 18th July 2008 China and Russia's dual veto of a draft sanctions resolution against Zimbabwe at the United Nations Security Council on 11 July took nostalgic diplomats back to the height...
Vol 49 No 14 | ZIMBABWE Deaths and deals 4th July 2008 The government sets tough terms for a power-sharing deal that might end the crisis The election on 27 June was Zimbabwe's worst. The opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, had formally withdrawn but his name was still on the ballot paper (AC Vol 49...
Vol 49 No 14 | ZIMBABWE Where the government gets its money 4th July 2008 Foreign mining investors still drop cash into Zimbabwe's empty bucket. Anglo American hit the spotlight in June with its US$400 million Unki platinum project, to be run by...
Vol 49 No 14 | ZIMBABWE Can the party hold together? 4th July 2008 With an eye to the succession, the top brass of Mugabe's party are squabbling and squirming Emmerson Mnangagwa was roped in by President Robert Mugabe to mastermind his bid for re-election, together with his close ally, Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa. Together, they persuaded...
Vol 49 No 14 | ZIMBABWE Keep an eye on Mnangagwa 4th July 2008 The force behind Robert Mugabe's re-election campaign was former intelligence chief Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Secretary for Legal Affairs of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, along with the...
Vol 49 No 14 | ZIMBABWEGERMANY Authoritarian notes 4th July 2008 Until Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel leant on them, Munich-based security printers Giesecke & Devrient GmbH had a lucrative contract to supply paper for Zimbabwe's considerable demand for new...
Vol 49 No 13 | ZIMBABWE The khaki election 20th June 2008 The determination of the military to retain power at all costs makes the 27 June election deadly and pointless The last ditch efforts by the United Nations’ Haile Menkerios and South Africa’s Thabo Mbeki to broker a meeting between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai...
Vol 49 No 13 | ZIMBABWE The praise singing club 20th June 2008 In Zimbabwe’s state-controlled media – the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (paradoxically modelled on the British Broadcasting Corporation but periodically purged), the Harare daily The Herald, and the Sunday Mail...
Vol 49 No 13 | ZIMBABWE The neighbours start to turn 20th June 2008 It began with the refusal of Southern African governments to allow a shipment of Chinese arms to unload at their ports and cross their territory to landlocked Zimbabwe...
