Vol 39 No 24 | ZIMBABWE First the provinces, then the presidency 4th December 1998 Factionalism is alive and well in ZANU-PF ahead of its national conference in Gweru on 9-12 December. The internecine disputes played out in the provincial party elections...
Vol 39 No 21 | ZIMBABWE War winnings 23rd October 1998 Officials at Congo-Kinshasa’s state mining company Gécamines confirm that control of the Central Group of copper and cobalt mines around Likasi, (with associated facilities, including the super-profitable Shituru...
Vol 39 No 19 | ZIMBABWE In the badlands 25th September 1998 The government may have to choose between land reform or fighting in the Congo Donors were pleased, Zimbabwe’s voters may not be. Yet President Robert Mugabe is unlikely to be asking for their votes again. His government abandoned its hard line on...
Vol 39 No 16 | ZIMBABWE Questions of succession 7th August 1998 Replacing veteran Vice-President Joshua Nkomo has opened new political divisions Zimbabwe has two vice-presidents, Joshua Nkomo and Simon Muzenda, but people may have forgotten that Nkomo still exists. He does not appear in public; President Robert Mugabe continues...
Vol 39 No 15 | ZIMBABWE IMF insiders 24th July 1998 Business people cannot understand what the International Monetary Fund is up to. It keeps on lending to the Zimbabwe government which, on the published figures, is heading for...
Vol 39 No 12 | ZIMBABWE Mortgaged 12th June 1998 The land conference on 24-25 June could turn into a fiasco, some insiders predict. White commercial farmers, the biggest losers if the government confiscates their land without compensation,...
Vol 39 No 11 | ZIMBABWE Pain in the neck 29th May 1998 The Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Morgan Tsvangirai, has been a pain in the government's neck for the past six months.Two fresh victories should...
Vol 39 No 10 | ZIMBABWE Counting allies 15th May 1998 President Mugabe's toughest opponents are not politicians but they know about politics When January's riots followed December's peaceful demonstrations, Zimbabweans started to say that President Robert Mugabe was finished. He came through, not because anything had changed but because no...
Vol 39 No 7 | ZIMBABWE Freed-up funds 3rd April 1998 Zimbabwe and the International Monetary Fund want to kiss and make up. In 1995, the Fund cut Zimbabwe out of its books, for failing to keep the promises...
Vol 39 No 6 | ZIMBABWE Union is strength 20th March 1998 As President Mugabe's credibility fades, a union leader looks like the coming man The lifts at Chester House on Speke Avenue in Harare no longer run up to the tenth floor, where the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has its head...