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Zimbabwe Country Report
news from Zimbabwe
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Found 256 articles.
- Vol 50 No 9
- 01/05/2009
No rally for the MDC
The Zimbabwe Republic Police, under Commissioner Augustine Chihuri, celebrated Independence Day on 18 April by withdrawing permission for a rally by the Movement for Democratic Change on the spurious grounds that officials from the Zimbabwe African Na...
- Vol 50 No 8
- 17/04/2009
From retreat to turnaround
Foreign investors but not their governments are beginning to take Harare's new order more seriously
- Vol 50 No 8
- 17/04/2009
Good-bye to Zimbabwe's dollar
'There will be no immediate plans to [re]introduce the money because there is nothing to support and hold its value,' said Economic Planning and Development Minister Elton Mangoma. In reality, the Zimbabwe dollar ceased to be a currency months ago, as...
- Vol 50 No 8
- 17/04/2009
Tendai Biti has a plan
Finance Minister Tendai Biti has emerged as the key figure in Zimbabwe's economic recovery, walking the uneasy path between securing external finance from sceptical outsiders and dealing with his crafty colleagues from President Robert Mugabe's Zimbab...
- Vol 50 No 7
- 03/04/2009
Sanctions and finance
South Africa's Trevor Manuel and the AfDB's Donald Kaberuka call for a substantial finance package to support Harare's new government
- Vol 50 No 7
- 03/04/2009
Bredenkamp bites back
Some of the businessmen targeted for sanctions by the European Union and United States are fighting back. John Bredenkamp, named as a collaborator of President Robert Mugabe’s regime by the EU and the USA, has won an interim injunction in Johannesburg pre...
- Vol 50 No 6
- 20/03/2009
Ancestral spirits
The death in a freak car crash of Susan Tsvangirai, the wife of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, will have both political and religious consequences. Traditional Shona etiquette required that President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace attend the obsequie...
- Vol 50 No 5
- 06/03/2009
Caviar and cholera
Mugabe celebrated his 85th birthday as his allies obstructed Morgan Tsvangirai's team in the new government
- Vol 50 No 5
- 06/03/2009
Next, the mines
Mining companies, claims and assets offer hope of wealth to the Zimbabwe government's cronies
- Vol 50 No 5
- 06/03/2009
Worthless cash
South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is proud of the Southern African Development Community for its brokering in Zimbabwe. At a meeting of SADC finance ministers in Cape Town last week, she called for the lifting of United States' and Eu...
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