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Zimbabwe
Population: 12.6 mn.
GDP: 7.5 bn.
Debt: 6.2 bn.
Overview:

President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai want an election this year, but another violent debacle looms in the absence of a constitutional solution. Farm and mining output, particularly platinum and diamonds, will improve. 

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  • Vol 53 No 11
  •  25th May 2012

Muscling out Mugabe

Politics in general as well as the race to succeed Mugabe are deepening in complexity and rancour

  • Vol 53 No 11
  •  25th May 2012

Devil of a mess

‘I detect a Satanic hand at work,’ said the excommunicated Anglican Archbishop Nolbert Kunonga. The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front apologist was talking about the latest pirated draft of the new constitution.

  • Vol 53 No 9
  •  27th April 2012

Prophecies and fantasies

Religion and rumour dim the prospects for the presidential succession while the mining rows continue

  • Vol 53 No 9
  •  27th April 2012

From the Stasi to State House

The Independence Day theme was ‘Indigenisation and Empowerment’. The Movement for Democratic Change objects that this will probably be the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front slogan whenever elections are held (President Robert Mugabe wants th...

  • Vol 53 No 7
  •  30th March 2012

Where’s the indigenous cash?

Impala Platinum will let 51% of Zimplats go to public ownership but it looks as though the government has not got the cash

  • Vol 53 No 7
  •  30th March 2012

Power to the president

President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have failed to pay huge electricity bills over the last two years, according to documents from the state power company leaked to local media.

  • Vol 53 No 6
  •  16th March 2012

Constitutional reform blow

ZANU-PF opposes the reforms planned to precede the elections and knows how to scupper them

  • Vol 53 No 6
  •  16th March 2012

The rise of Tendai Biti

Tendai Biti has been the star both of the Movement for Democratic Change as its General Secretary and of the Government of National Unity as its Finance Minister. He was perhaps lucky, as his predecessors had so ruined the economy that some recovery was i...

  • Vol 53 No 4
  •  17th February 2012

Inquest blue

The inquest into the death of General Solomon Mujuru has closed on 6 February after hearing 39 witnesses. The evidence left after the raging inferno that killed him yielded no smoking gun or other positive signs of foul play (AC Vol 52 No 17, The kingmake...

  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

Positions pending

After his annual holiday in south-east Asia, Mugabe has to decide whether to reappoint many of his ageing securocrats

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