Vol 45 No 24 | ZIMBABWE Bye-bye, Moyo 3rd December 2004 A purge is coming, in preparation for the 2005 elections and, one day, the departure of President Robert Mugabe. The President's faction of his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patr...
Vol 45 No 23 | ZIMBABWE Gunning for Number 2 19th November 2004 Parliamentary Speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa stakes a claim to the succession Feared and unpopular he may be but Parliamentary Speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa has now revealed himself to be a serious contender for the vacant vice-presidency. What is most remarkab...
Vol 45 No 21 | ZIMBABWE Tsvangirai half free 22nd October 2004 Now the MDC must decide whether to fight next year's elections on Mugabe's terms Morgan Tsvangirai will be back in the High Court on 2 November to face more treason charges, this time for planning a mass action campaign against the government in 2003. Yet his a...
Vol 45 No 18 | ZIMBABWE Mistake in the Movement 10th September 2004 The MDC's election boycott is badly timed and sends the wrong signals Just as an independent poll showed a solid gain in popularity by President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, the leaders of the opposition Movement f...
Vol 45 No 18 | ZIMBABWE Don't criticise it, nationalise it! 10th September 2004 The Zimbabwe government has taken powers to nationalise the assets of people it regards as enemies of the state. It works like this. A statutory instrument (part of the anti-corrup...
Vol 45 No 15 | ZIMBABWE On and on and on 21st July 2004 Economic failure confronts Mugabe more sharply than opposition parties and foreign critics The African Union summit in Addis Ababa formally accepts a devastating critique of the government's human rights abuses. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation lambas...
Vol 45 No 15 | ZIMBABWE Gideon rising 21st July 2004 Considering the economic nightmares with which he has to contend daily, Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono is a relaxed man. He speaks gaily of economic challenges, never of difficu...
Vol 45 No 14 | ZIMBABWE Fears of famine 9th July 2004 President Mugabe has laughed off forecasts of another food crisis; now the UN presents the evidence United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation analysts predict chronic food shortages in a damning new report on Zimbabwe obtained by Africa Confidential. It says 'an estimated ...
Vol 45 No 11 | ZIMBABWE Fast buck, slow famine 28th May 2004 US companies help President Mugabe to finance secret food imports President Robert Mugabe is staking his people's future on false claims of a bumper harvest. His Information Minister, Jonathan Moyo, parrots the line but fails to convince Zimbabwe...
Vol 45 No 10 | ZIMBABWE Maize-meal for votes 14th May 2004 ZANU-PF strategists believe that a new plan to lock out foreign food aid and hold early elections will bring certain victory The government's order to a United Nations' crop assessment team to leave the country last weekend is part of its strategy to maintain tight political control over food supply and ...