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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 51 No 25
  •  17th December 2010

One farm good, four farms better

The 2011 elections are billed as the fourth and final Chimurenga (revolutionary struggle) to consolidate the gains of the revolutionary process. Nowhere have the gains been more substantial than among senior military and security officers – and they are d...

  • Vol 51 No 24
  •  3rd December 2010

Cranswick and Marange

A key player in the Marange diamond fields dispute, businessman Andrew Cranswick, has been declared bankrupt in Australia after failing to pay a tax demand of Aus$1.1 million (US$1.07 mn.). Cranswick is the Chief Executive of African Consolidated Reso...

  • Vol 51 No 23
  •  19th November 2010

A multi-faceted business

Intrigue over the ownership and profits from the rich Marange diamond fields is causing dissension in State House

  • Vol 51 No 23
  •  19th November 2010

Old crocodile, younger croc

Grace Mugabe, widely known as the country’s First Shopper, has, like Marie-Antoinette, a penchant for diamonds and playing at milkmaids. Her model farm, Gushongo Dairy, is so named after husband Robert’s latest nickname ‘Gushongo’ – an obscure Shona totem...

  • Vol 51 No 22
  •  5th November 2010

Lying big, often

The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front approaches its annual congress in better shape than a year ago and owing much to Jonathan Moyo’s tactical thinking. He will probably be rewarded with a coveted seat in the Politburo. His readmission to Z...

  • Vol 51 No 22
  •  5th November 2010

Sanctions fraying fast

As Harare steps up pressure for the European Union to abandon its sanctions on Zimbabwe, it has emerged that a British-based bank has found a legal way to circumvent the ban on loans to President Robert Mugabe’s allies. According to the Reserve Bank of Zi...

  • Vol 51 No 21
  •  22nd October 2010

Everyone wants a vote

President Mugabe defies the agreement with the MDC while Morgan Tsvangirai ponders his declining power

  • Vol 51 No 20
  •  8th October 2010

The Quito question

Arms smuggling, drug trafficking and questionable clergymen all provide clues as to why President Robert Mugabe was planning a foray to Ecuador after his annual trip to the opening of the United Nations General Assembly in late September. But urgent busin...

  • Vol 51 No 20
  •  8th October 2010

Moving statues

The controversial statue honouring Joshua Nkomo on Main Street in Bulawayo could not wait to be officially unveiled by President Robert Mugabe (AC Vol 51 No 16). One night, the black shroud enveloping it slipped off, to reveal a distinctly unheroic figure...

  • Vol 51 No 19
  •  24th September 2010

The missing election fund

A chipper-looking President Robert Mugabe arrived in New York for the United Nations summit this week despite the strike by Air Zimbabwe’s pilots. Defying reports of his imminent (or in some cases, actual) demise, Mugabe, 86, insists on taking ostentatiou...

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