Vol 49 No 12 | ZIMBABWE Mawere against Mugabe 6th June 2008 One of Zimbabwe’s most strident businessmen, Mutumwa Mawere, is winning his long battle for compensation with President Robert Mugabe’s regime over the ownership of his company Africa Resources...
Vol 49 No 10 | ZIMBABWE Dealing with a wounded tiger 9th May 2008 Led by its Legal Affairs Secretary Emmerson Mnangagwa, hardliners in the governing Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) cling to power in the face of internal dissent and the government's defeat at the 29 March polls. They insist that President Robert Mugabe will fight a presidential runoff vote against the Movement for Democratic Change's (MDC) Morgan Tsvangirai, probably in June or July, and will win by all means necessary. After almost a week of political paralysis in ZANU-PF following the 29 March elections, Emmerson Mnangagwa and his allies honed a fight-back strategy for the party that involves...
Vol 49 No 10 | ZIMBABWE Mnangagwa's return to form 9th May 2008 Legal Affairs Secretary and former Security Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa has led the charge for Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) since he organised the party congress's decision last...
Vol 49 No 10 | ZIMBABWE Good COPS, bad COPS 9th May 2008 'We will get it done,' Daniel H. Overmyer assured Africa Confidential, leaning in conspiratorially. Overmyer is the President of Castle, Overmyer, Poole & Schubert (COPS), a merchant bank...
Vol 49 No 9 | ZIMBABWE Can the opposition fight and can it rule? 25th April 2008 New questions are raised about the leadership opposition's leadership This week as the opposition Movement for Democratic Change’s diplomatic efforts appeared to be paying off with growing condemnation in Africa of President Robert Mugabe and the discredited...
Vol 49 No 9 | ZIMBABWE The opposition line-up 25th April 2008 The division of the opposition into three rival components hampers its response to the government’s crackdown and its ability to mobilise against electoral fraud. Activists believe the Central...
Vol 49 No 9 | ZIMBABWECHINAARMS Oceanic turnaround 25th April 2008 The thwarted voyage of the An Yue Jiang – a Chinese freighter with a cargo of ammunition, mortars, mines and artillery bound for President Robert Mugabe’s government –...
Vol 49 No 8 | ZIMBABWE The ugly endgame 11th April 2008 President Mugabe has been wounded by his party's parliamentary defeat but his loyalists plan a final orgy of repression War veterans, 'green bombers' and other irregular armed military units are being despatched across Zimbabwe to crush the opposition Movement for Democratic Change following its win in the...
Vol 49 No 8 | ZIMBABWE Tsvangirai's transient victory 11th April 2008 The parliamentary victory of Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change - winning 99 seats in the House of Assembly to 97 for the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front...
Vol 49 No 8 | ZIMBABWE The hyperinflation club 11th April 2008 On the fringes of an opposition rally just before the election stood a solitary figure holding a placard, his jacket pasted with Z$10 million bearer cheques. With the...