Vol 48 No 19 | ZIMBABWE The banishing of Billy 21st September 2007 Influence over the intelligence services has become a crucial front in the African National Congress’s succession battle. The biggest casualty so far has been the former Director of...
Vol 48 No 18 | ZIMBABWE He keeps on winning 7th September 2007 Mugabe's cunning but ruinous regime is smarter than its quarrelsome critics Zimbabwe defies political gravity. Almost nobody in Harare or Tshwane takes seriously the South African-mediated negotiations between government and opposition. Next year's elections will be held using a...
Vol 48 No 18 | ZIMBABWE Mugabe's people in the provinces 7th September 2007 Soldiers and politicians may grumble but President Robert Mugabe and his apparatchiks maintain a wrestler's grip on the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front's organisation in all ten provinces....
Vol 48 No 17 | ZIMBABWE Neighbours undercover 24th August 2007 Zimbabwe's highly effective Central Intelligence Organisation worked to ensure the Lusaka discussions on Zimbabwe went its way. Four days before the 16-17 August Southern African Development Community summit,...
Vol 48 No 16 | ZIMBABWE Death of a general 3rd August 2007 The military is losing out in its power struggle with the intelligence services, and President Mugabe is the beneficiary More than 15 senior officers have been purged from the Zimbabwe Defence Force following investigations into plots to oust President Robert Mugabe, a group of military officers told...
Vol 48 No 16 | ZIMBABWE More blood, more cash 3rd August 2007 The market principle of ‘'buy when there’s blood on the streets’ has drawn new investors to Zimbabwe Africa Confidential reported early this year on highly lucrative British banking operations in Harare and the Botswana-based Imara Capital's recovery fund (AC Vol 48 Nos 2 & 6)....
Vol 48 No 14 | ZIMBABWE Good week, bad year 6th July 2007 While President Mugabe has been glad-handing his counterparts in Accra, political and security problems proliferate at home It's been a good week for President Robert Mugabe in Ghana at the African Union summit. Away from the economic and political meltdown back home, he played elder...
Vol 48 No 7 | ZIMBABWE Trouble in the neighbourhood 30th March 2007 Most countries in the region now want to see President Mugabe's early departure and will start to say so loudly The timing could hardly be better or the message clearer. Just as President Robert Mugabe touched down at Dar es Salaam airport for the Extraordinary Summit of...
Vol 48 No 7 | ZIMBABWE How to put it together again - as the Mugabe regime totters 30th March 2007 When the reign of President Mugabe and his henchmen comes to an end, Zimbabwe will have much to do to recover from the damage to its economy – and to its people Change is in the air and people are starting to think hard about how Zimbabwe can recover its wasted political and economic impetus. If the transition after President...
Vol 48 No 6 | ZIMBABWE Beware the Ides of March 16th March 2007 Some of President Robert Mugabe's oldest allies want him to leave – but who will play Brutus? By overreacting to an opposition demonstration and savagely beating its leader Morgan Tsvangirai, the police in Harare served their master badly. President Robert Mugabe was already under stiff...