Vol 41 No 6 | ZIMBABWE Who's next? 17th March 2000 The Zanu-PF hierarchy is encouraging President Mugabe to take a dignified retirement. But they can't agree who should take over Few serious politicians doubt that Zimbabwe is heading for its roughest elections since Independence and the end of the liberation war in 1980. The ruling Zimbabwe African National...
Vol 41 No 5 | ZIMBABWE Running on empty 3rd March 2000 The fuel crisis is deepening despite the government's recent deal with BP Amoco for shipments through the Beira pipeline. Ships delivering fuel to Beira were halted by the...
Vol 41 No 4 | ZIMBABWE Saying no to the yes-men 18th February 2000 ZANU's referendum defeat is a political watershed but it doesn't guarantee the opposition a victory in the April polls 'We've won this war, so we're all guerrillas now,' a young man shouted out at a crowded civic meeting in Harare, just hours after the Zimbabwean people had...
Vol 41 No 4 | ZIMBABWE Hawks or doves? 18th February 2000 Britain is maintaining an 'informal arms embargo' on Zimbabwe, defence sources told Africa Confidential in Harare this week. This is despite a cabinet meeting in Downing Street last...
Vol 41 No 1 | ZIMBABWE They're off - or not 7th January 2000 Confusion mounts over Zimbabwe's parliamentary elections. Last month Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, 53, announced their postponement from March to June so that the poll could be held under...
Vol 40 No 25 | SOUTH AFRICAZIMBABWE Busting Billy 17th December 1999 The South African police investigation into Zimbabwean entrepreneur Billy Rautenbach risks escalating into a diplomatic clash between Pretoria and Harare. Rautenbach is a close associate of Zimbabwe's Justice...
Vol 40 No 22 | CONGO-KINSHASAZIMBABWE Rhodies to the rescue 5th November 1999 Some of Ian Smith's old friends are helping to finance Robert Mugabe's Congo war effort Zimbabwe's war in the Congo gets costlier by the day. As the bill rises, the failure of President Robert Mugabe's government to budget accurately for its intervention has...
Vol 40 No 19 | ZIMBABWE Unmoved movers 24th September 1999 Although dominated by trades unionists, the Movement for Democratic Change, launched on 11 September, is a formidable coalition: lawyers, war veterans, students and activists from the women's movement...
Vol 40 No 18 | ZIMBABWE Chinja maitiro! 10th September 1999 Trades unions are mounting their toughest challenge to ZANU-PF since Independence Zimbabwe's trades unionists cannot expect the landslide that their colleagues in Zambia's Movement for Multi-Party Democracy scored against President Kenneth Kaunda in 1991. Although bad, conditions in Zimbabwe...
Vol 40 No 16 | ZIMBABWE U-turns, screw turns 6th August 1999 The ruling party dreams the IMF could help it win the next election The latest international plan for turning Zimbabwe's economy around looks sound, in narrow economic terms. In narrow political terms, though, it ignores reality, including next year's parliamentary...