Vol 51 No 1 | ZIMBABWE Three men in a boat 8th January 2010 Somehow the unlikely triumvirate sticks together – for fear of something worse – amid signs of a slowly recovering economy The uneasy coalition government will rumble on into 2010, making painful but discernible progress on economic reform. It is in none of the three main parties’ interest to ditch the...
Vol 51 No 1 | ZIMBABWE Elusive shoots of economic recovery 8th January 2010 The key issue for the power-sharing regime is reviving the economy. According to the 2010 budget, the government is aiming for 7% gross domestic product growth, underpinned by 10% ...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 12 | ZIMBABWECHINA Blood diamonds and old soldiers 21st October 2010 The Chiadzwa/Marange alluvial diamond fields remain off limits to Zimbabwe’s Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy. Amid growing reports of Chinese involvement, Min...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 11 | ZIMBABWE Downtown crackdown 22nd September 2010 The National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Board, whose mandate is to ensure that 51% of the economy is indigenised by 2015, is swinging into action. David Chapfika, the ...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 10 | ZIMBABWECHINA A Mugabe shakedown at the Shanghai Expo 17th August 2010 Seeking hard cash and a platform for his disavowals of the West, President Robert Mugabe flew to Shanghai's spectacular trade expo, where on 11 August he thanked Beijing for bein...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 8 | ZIMBABWE Morgan Tsvangirai 17th June 2010 Prime Minister, Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s 24-26 May visit to South Korea was intended to drum up much-needed business for Zimbabwe. An investment promotion and protection deal was agreed ...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 7 | ZIMBABWE Stan Mudenge 20th May 2010 Higher Education Minister, Zimbabwe Isaak Stanislaus Gorerazvo Mudenge’s role as Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s Secretary for External Affairs keeps him in the foreign policy loop and he took part ...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 2 | ZIMBABWECHINABRIEFING All that glitters is mine 15th December 2009 The details of the US$8 billion China Sonangol/China International Fund are becoming more apparent as subsidiary deals are signed. On 7 December, Zimbabwe's Transport and Mining ...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 1 | ZIMBABWECHINA China Sonangol targets Harare’s gold and oil 26th November 2009 The China International Fund and China Sonangol are being used to bail out troubled regimes when international pressure on them is at its highest. First, there was the China Intern...
Vol 50 No 24 | ZIMBABWE Faint heart never beat stout lady in the ruling party 4th December 2009 Joice Mujuru’s victory in ZANU-PF’s leadership election could encourage more pragmatism as pressure mounts for Mugabe’s exit Emmerson Mnangagwa is nicknamed 'the Crocodile' partly for his ability to snap after long periods of log-like but watchful inertia. In November's election for the Praesidium of the...