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...
Vol 39 No 5 | ZIMBABWE Wrong number 6th March 1998 President Robert Mugabe’s government has moved the goalposts again in the latest episode in the cellular telephone saga. For four and a half years Strive Masiyiwa has been...
Vol 39 No 3 | ZIMBABWE More than money 6th February 1998 ZANU fears the riots in Harare were about politics as much as economics Facing his 74th birthday on 21 February, President Robert Mugabe must be thinking hard about his future and his legacy. The food riots of 19-21 January were the...
Vol 38 No 24 | ZIMBABWE Buying the farm 5th December 1997 Land reform is a political imperative but it could wreck the economy if badly done The timing could hardly have been worse. As the currency came under attack (falling against the United States' dollar from Z$14 to Z$25 in mid-November) and with even...
Vol 38 No 23 | ZIMBABWE Forgotten fighters 21st November 1997 President Mugabe's government faces a budgetary crisis after conceding to the war veterans' demands for compensation War veterans are proving the most potent political and financial force in Zimbabwe this year. Their success, after one of the most strident political campaigns since Independence, in...
Vol 38 No 23 | ZIMBABWE Who is Hunzvi? 21st November 1997 The irresistible rise of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association's leader, Chenjerai 'Hitler' Hunzvi, to political stardom this year was achieved by his intelligent use of one...