About 150 kilometres south of Harare, Chikomba District has long been the home base of the ruling party’s power elite. These days, however, it shows the same political schisms seen across the country. Firstly, there is the First Lady, Grace Mugabe née Mar...
British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) officials are concerned whether the Zimbabwe operations of London-based Standard Chartered Bank violate European Union sanctions, according to emails seen by Africa Confidential. Standard Chartered is among th...
One of Zimbabwe’s most strident businessmen, Mutumwa Mawere, is winning his long battle for compensation with President Robert Mugabe’s regime over the ownership of his company Africa Resources Limited (ARL). Until five years ago, Mawere was a staunch gov...
Led by its Legal Affairs Secretary Emmerson Mnangagwa, hardliners in the governing Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) cling to power in the face of internal dissent and the government's defeat at the 29 March polls. They insist that...
Legal Affairs Secretary and former Security Minister Emmerson
Mnangagwa has led the charge for Zimbabwe African National
Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) since he organised the party congress's
decision last December to re-select Robert Mugabe as its
p...
'We will get it done,' Daniel H. Overmyer assured Africa
Confidential, leaning in conspiratorially. Overmyer is the
President of Castle, Overmyer, Poole & Schubert (COPS), a
merchant bank based in Denver, United States. The octogenarian
entreprene...
New questions are raised about the leadership opposition's leadership
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...
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...
President Mugabe has been wounded by his party's parliamentary defeat but his loyalists plan a final orgy of repression
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