Vol 44 No 14 | ZIMBABWE Get a move on 11th July 2003 'It's the clock. The time for me is up... it's time to move on'. Thus Charles Utete explained his retirement in April. President Robert Mugabe, who at 79...
Vol 44 No 12 | ZIMBABWE Both sides lose 13th June 2003 A week of strikes shows that the opposition lacks a plan and that President Robert Mugabe needs brute force to survive Let him take his medicine!' South Africa's Foreign Minister Nkosazana Zuma told fellow diplomats after learning that opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had been detained after a week of...
Vol 44 No 11 | ZIMBABWE What's next? 30th May 2003 A messy endgame looms unless government and opposition start serious negotiations Zimbabweans have been thronging the banks in Bulawayo and Harare this week desperate for cash to stock up on necessities before the opposition's planned general strike. That Morgan...
Vol 44 No 11 | ZIMBABWE Pius and power 30th May 2003 Archbishop Pius Ncube is emerging as the most important and convincing opponent of President Robert Mugabe's government. Ncube, the Roman Catholic prelate for Bulawayo, criticises corruption by the...
Vol 44 No 10 | ZIMBABWE Who's next? 16th May 2003 The endgame may have begun in Harare but Mugabe is playing it his way Three busy Presidents had a frustrating time when they visited their colleague Robert Mugabe in Harare on 5 May. Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria...
Vol 44 No 7 | ZIMBABWE Votes and gaols 4th April 2003 Barely noticed abroad because of the war on Iraq, on 31 March the Movement for Democratic Change regained some of the momentum it had lost with two by-election...
Vol 44 No 6 | ZIMBABWE Landing in trouble 21st March 2003 Claims in a government audit that President Robert Mugabe's sister Sabina, several high ranking government officials and company executives have grabbed farms and have been forcibly evicting landless...
Vol 44 No 4 | ZIMBABWE This land is our land 21st February 2003 A secret government report shows how officials are grabbing farms and violently evicting landless farmers A confidential government audit of Zimbabwe's land reform has found widespread evidence of corrupt allocations and the use of violence by senior politicians and military officers to evict...
Vol 44 No 4 | ZIMBABWE Succession for sale 21st February 2003 Business interests are trading favours, and newspapers, to buy political advantage Zimbabwe's power-brokers take the struggle to succeed President Robert Mugabe seriously and ingratiate themselves with whomever they think likely to win. Some stand by Mugabe, believing he can...
Vol 44 No 2 | ZIMBABWE Coming out of the closet 24th January 2003 The first plan may have failed but finding an exit route for Comrade Mugabe is now political centre stage The architects of the soft-landing plan for President Robert Gabriel Mugabe are frustrated (AC Vol 44 No 1). Their efforts have produced the opposite effect to that intended:...