Vol 53 No 4 | ZIMBABWE Inquest blue 17th February 2012 The inquest into the death of General Solomon Mujuru has closed on 6 February after hearing 39 witnesses. The evidence left after the raging inferno that killed him yielded no smok...
Vol 53 No 2 | ZIMBABWE Positions pending 20th January 2012 After his annual holiday in south-east Asia, Mugabe has to decide whether to reappoint many of his ageing securocrats The security officers around President Robert Mugabe like to shroud his movements in mystery. During the congress of his Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) i...
Vol 53 No 2 | ZIMBABWE Mugabe breaks with the region 20th January 2012 By snubbing the African National Congress centenary celebrations and their host, South African President Jacob Zuma, President Robert Mugabe wanted to make some political points. H...
Vol 53 No 1 | ZIMBABWE A race against time 6th January 2012 The probability of President Mugabe scuppering constitutional reforms and calling a snap election is firming up Both President Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) want el...
Vol 53 No 1 | ZIMBABWE A pause in economic progress 6th January 2012 The early economic successes of the power-sharing government are sputtering (AC Vol 52 No 25). A decade after the land reform battles, agriculture will be the main source of growth...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 12 | ZIMBABWECHINA The takeovers will buy votes 2nd October 2012 Ahead of national elections in March 2013, Indigenisation Minister Kasukuwere targets Chinese companies to raise funds for ZANU-PF’s campaign team In papers submitted to the High Court for yet another extension on setting by-elections in late September, President Robert Mugabe gave an effective commitment to general elections...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 12 | ZIMBABWECHINA CIF starts work in Zimbabwe 2nd October 2012 State media proclaimed in mid-September that China International Fund was to begin building some of the infrastructure that it promised in late 2009 (AAC Vol 3 No 2). Since its arr...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 11 | ZIMBABWE Welshman Ncube 3rd September 2012 Minister of Industry and Commerce, Zimbabwe Industry and Commerce Minister Welshman Ncube appears to have cleared the hurdles blocking the rehabilitation of the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company. India's Essar Africa Holdings ...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 10 | ZIMBABWEINDIA Missing the sparklers 31st July 2012 Disappearing diamond revenue is slowing economic growth and enriching illicit networks at the interstices of India-Zimbabwe trade Disappointing diamond revenues and other factors forced Finance Minister Tendai Biti to slash predictions for Zimbabwe’s gross domestic product growth in 2012 from the expected 9.4...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 10 | ZIMBABWEINDIA No retail therapy here 31st July 2012 Since he was widowed in March 2009, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been involved in a series of romantic escapades that have drawn ribald commen...