Vol 48 No 7 | ZIMBABWE How to put it together again - as the Mugabe regime totters 30th March 2007 When the reign of President Mugabe and his henchmen comes to an end, Zimbabwe will have much to do to recover from the damage to its economy – and to its people Change is in the air and people are starting to think hard about how Zimbabwe can recover its wasted political and economic impetus. If the transition after President Robert Mugabe...
Vol 48 No 6 | ZIMBABWE Beware the Ides of March 16th March 2007 Some of President Robert Mugabe's oldest allies want him to leave – but who will play Brutus? By overreacting to an opposition demonstration and savagely beating its leader Morgan Tsvangirai, the police in Harare served their master badly. President Robert Mugabe was alread...
Vol 48 No 6 | ZIMBABWE Cash and blood on the streets 16th March 2007 The lack of serious diplomatic pressure for change in Zimbabwe goes together with an almost total lack of planning for the aftermath of President Robert Mugabe's exit from power. B...
Vol 48 No 4 | ZIMBABWE Shuffling the deckchairs 16th February 2007 Ministers may change but economic policy still defies reality, as the currency crashes A 'fusion of new and old blood' to reinvigorate the economy was President Robert Mugabe's hopeful description of his cabinet reshuffle on 6 February. His real economy chief, Reserv...
Vol 48 No 2 | ZIMBABWE Bailing out President Mugabe 19th January 2007 Despite its cold war with Whitehall, Harare's biggest financiers are London-based banks and insurance companies British and South African banks have provided a more than US$400 million financial lifeline to President Robert Mugabe's government over the last two years, much of it targeted at ...
Vol 47 No 25 | ZIMBABWE An economic fairy tale 15th December 2006 Goverment data on the economy reads like fiction Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa's 4.3 trillion Zimbabwe dollar (officially US$17.2 million) budget for 2007 passed through Parliament on 7 December with no debate about its untena...
Vol 47 No 25 | ZIMBABWE Annual Conference 15th December 2006 Special reports from the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front's annual conference, 14-17 December 2006. This article is free to all users in Special Reports.
Vol 47 No 25 | ZIMBABWE Law wars 15th December 2006 The ruling party's barons are getting ready for the national conference this week - by suing each other. The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front's National Chairman Joh...
Vol 47 No 24 | ZIMBABWE Grafters' gridlock 1st December 2006 Rival factions are ramping up corruption claims against each other in the run-up to the annual conference on 14-17 December of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic ...
Vol 47 No 23 | ZIMBABWE Surreal succession 17th November 2006 Party factions jostle for power, fearing that Mugabe's departure will be worse than his presidency Robert Mugabe's government has presided for the past five years over the world's fastest shrinking economy - and achieved the world's worst mortality rates. Yet the main argument a...