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Zimbabwe Country Report
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Found 257 articles.
- Vol 49 No 9
- 25/04/2008
Can the opposition fight and can it rule?
New questions are raised about the leadership opposition's leadership
- Vol 49 No 9
- 25/04/2008
The opposition line-up
The division of the opposition into three rival components hampers its response to the government’s crackdown and its ability to mobilise against electoral fraud. Activists believe the Central Intelligence Organisation is working to exacerbate the divisio...
- Vol 49 No 9
- 25/04/2008
Oceanic turnaround
The thwarted voyage of the An Yue Jiang – a Chinese freighter with a cargo of ammunition, mortars, mines and artillery bound for President Robert Mugabe’s government – marks a turning point for Zimbabwe’s regional relations. It also shows how trades union...
- Vol 49 No 8
- 11/04/2008
The ugly endgame
President Mugabe has been wounded by his party's parliamentary defeat but his loyalists plan a final orgy of repression
- Vol 49 No 8
- 11/04/2008
Tsvangirai's transient victory
The parliamentary victory of Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change - winning 99 seats in the House of Assembly to 97 for the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front - seemed for a moment to change Zimbabwe's political landscape. W...
- Vol 49 No 8
- 11/04/2008
The hyperinflation club
On the fringes of an opposition rally just before the election stood a solitary figure holding a placard, his jacket pasted with Z$10 million bearer cheques. With the gallows humour now popular in Zimbabwe, the placard read 'Please help! I am a destitu...
- Vol 49 No 7
- 28/03/2008
The sick man of the south
President Mugabe's disastrous stewardship is dragging the region's economy downwards but the leaders are divided on the remedy
- Vol 49 No 7
- 28/03/2008
Harare eyes the Kenyan model
When Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga referred to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe as 'a dinosaur' last year, his party received an angry phonecall from Futungo de Belas in Luanda warning that gratuitous insults against Comrade Mugabe would me...
- Vol 49 No 7
- 28/03/2008
Marking ballots, selling shares
Companies are watching the elections with a particular focus - the implementation of the Indigenisation and Empowerment Act. Announced by President Robert Mugabe on 7 March, the Act compels all foreign-owned companies (and many locally-owned ones) to ...
- Vol 49 No 6
- 14/03/2008
Elections within elections
The presidential contest attracts most attention but the battle for Parliament may decide the outcome
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