Vol 49 No 14 | ZIMBABWE Where the government gets its money 4th July 2008 Foreign mining investors still drop cash into Zimbabwe's empty bucket. Anglo American hit the spotlight in June with its US$400 million Unki platinum project, to be run by its Joha...
Vol 49 No 14 | ZIMBABWE Can the party hold together? 4th July 2008 With an eye to the succession, the top brass of Mugabe's party are squabbling and squirming Emmerson Mnangagwa was roped in by President Robert Mugabe to mastermind his bid for re-election, together with his close ally, Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa. Together, ...
Vol 49 No 14 | ZIMBABWE Keep an eye on Mnangagwa 4th July 2008 The force behind Robert Mugabe's re-election campaign was former intelligence chief Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Secretary for Legal Affairs of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patri...
Vol 49 No 14 | ZIMBABWEGERMANY Authoritarian notes 4th July 2008 Until Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel leant on them, Munich-based security printers Giesecke & Devrient GmbH had a lucrative contract to supply paper for Zimbabwe's consider...
Vol 49 No 13 | ZIMBABWE The khaki election 20th June 2008 The determination of the military to retain power at all costs makes the 27 June election deadly and pointless The last ditch efforts by the United Nations’ Haile Menkerios and South Africa’s Thabo Mbeki to broker a meeting between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvang...
Vol 49 No 13 | ZIMBABWE The praise singing club 20th June 2008 In Zimbabwe’s state-controlled media – the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (paradoxically modelled on the British Broadcasting Corporation but periodically purged), the Harare da...
Vol 49 No 13 | ZIMBABWE The neighbours start to turn 20th June 2008 It began with the refusal of Southern African governments to allow a shipment of Chinese arms to unload at their ports and cross their territory to landlocked Zimbabwe (AC Vol 49 N...
Vol 49 No 12 | ZIMBABWE Fighting democracy – Mugabe's last stand 6th June 2008 No matter how President Robert Mugabe does his sums, the odds are against him if there is a credible rerun of the presidential election on 27 June More than 50 opposition supporters have been killed and tens of thousands displaced since the first round. On 4 June, police briefly arrested the likely winner, Morgan Tsvangirai, ...
Vol 49 No 12 | ZIMBABWE Change in Chikomba 6th June 2008 About 150 kilometres south of Harare, Chikomba District has long been the home base of the ruling party’s power elite. These days, however, it shows the same political schisms seen...
Vol 49 No 12 | ZIMBABWE Sanctions and standards 6th June 2008 British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) officials are concerned whether the Zimbabwe operations of London-based Standard Chartered Bank violate European Union sanctions, acco...