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Zimbabwe Country Report
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Found 257 articles.
- Vol 51 No 16
- 06/08/2010
Bullfighting
The Politburo of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front has always regarded the award of hero status as within its sole gift, something hotly contested by the Movement for Democratic Change and one of the outstanding issues of 2008's Globa...
- Vol 51 No 15
- 23/07/2010
What mattered was the football
World Cup fever overshadowed both a spectacular political row and preparations for a new constitution
- Vol 51 No 15
- 23/07/2010
Restless spirits
The Ndebele can't agree on a living leader and many still take their inspiration from the late Joshua Nkomo
- Vol 51 No 13
- 25/06/2010
Diplomacy by other means
Harare’s foreign policy is splitting at the seams – and so is the awkward ZANU-PF-MDC coalition
- Vol 51 No 13
- 25/06/2010
Newsdays and the old days
The new Media Commission is finally operational and is issuing licences to publish newspapers. After a year’s foot-dragging, during which the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) tried every delaying tactic, the arrival of the News...
- Vol 51 No 12
- 11/06/2010
Abbey's all clear
The recommendation by Abbey Chikane, a monitor for the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme for diamonds, that Zimbabwe be allowed to resume exports from the much contested Marange fields may strip the last vestiges of credibility from the KPCS. Chikane...
- Vol 51 No 11
- 28/05/2010
Squashing the judges
The courts, despite everything, persist in doing justice sometimes and the President is not amused
- Vol 51 No 11
- 28/05/2010
Legal limits
The Harare legal profession is enjoying itself at the expense of fellow practitioner Jonathan Samkange, a favourite in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front who shuns the human rights lobby; he also represented British mercenary Simon Mann...
- Vol 51 No 10
- 14/05/2010
Diamond disputes
Quarrels over diamond concessions preoccupy politicians of all stripes and some adventurous foreign capitalists
- Vol 51 No 8
- 16/04/2010
Spiriting away diamonds
Backed by Police Commissioner General and junta member Augustine Chihuri, the Governor of Manicaland Chris Mushohwe has barred the parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy from visiting the controversial Marange Chiadzwa diamond fields (AC Vo...
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