Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Population: 12.6 mn.
GDP: 10.8 bn.
Debt: 5 bn.
Overview:

The new constitution should precede general elections in the second half of the year. The Movement for Democratic Change has been politically clumsy, unlike the ageing but acute President Robert Mugabe. GDP growth could fall to 4% amid investor fears over indigenisation and violence. Almost no progress has been made on security reform ahead of the elections.

 


Zimbabwe Country Report



news from Zimbabwe

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  • Vol 54 No 10
  •  10th May 2013

A June meddling

President Robert Mugabe is insisting on general elections by 29 June, when the present Parliament ends, despite the objections of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.

  • Vol 54 No 7
  •  29th March 2013

ZANU-PF wins the referendum

Tsvangirai’s MDC didn’t do enough to prevent the new basic law giving Mugabe’s party the right to decide who succeeds him

  • Vol 54 No 6
  •  15th March 2013

Vote now, pay later

All parties want the same result in the 16 March referendum but it holds dangers, especially concerning the presidential succession

  • Vol 54 No 5
  •  1st March 2013

Girding up for the vote

President Robert Mugabe has placed allies in key positions as the draft constitution finally heads for a referendum

  • Vol 54 No 3
  •  1st February 2013

I chose the deputy

A vice-presidency is again vacant, sharpening choices about the constitution and creating openings for those outside the two main parties

  • Vol 54 No 2
  •  18th January 2013

ZANU-PF's loss

Professor Reg Austin, one of the staunchest comrades of the Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), has resigned from the new Human Rights Commission. Austin had been nominated to head the new commission but fears that the Zimbabwe Huma...

  • Vol 54 No 1
  •  11th January 2013

A test for the constitutions

This year’s much delayed elections could well yield surprises but companies are nervous about election tactics such as ‘indigenisation’ decreees

  • Vol 53 No 24
  •  30th November 2012

Imports and exports

Food is short across the country and the rains are late. Zimbabwe used to be the regional breadbasket but now relies on Zambia, formerly a maize importer, whose welcome to Zimbabwe’s dispossessed white farmers has paid off handsomely.

  • Vol 53 No 23
  •  16th November 2012

ZANU-PF’s gem of a campaign

Everyone is asking where Mugabe’s party is finding the money for its fleet of new vehicles and its pre-election largesse

  • Vol 53 No 22
  •  2nd November 2012

Three men in a boat

The triumvirate of Mugabe, Tsvangirai and Mutambara officially holds the key to the constitutional referendum. It faces major challenges

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