British
Prime Minister Gordon
Brown’s refusal to attend the European
Union summit in Lisbon, Portugal,
on 8-9 December alongside Zimbabwe’s
President Robert Mugabe
plays well with Britain’s conservative
newspapers.
Relations between Britain and South Africa, not helped by the
Springboks’ 15-6 defeat of England in the Rugby World Cup in
Paris on
20 October, have become poisonous again over Zimbabwe.
After a surprising political deal, reformers hope that at last the opposition’s talks with government are leading somewhere
Just when President Robert Mugabe thought it was safe to go back to the altar, another troublesome priest has lambasted him for running an oppressive and corrupt regime. This time the accuser is the Anglican Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, a Ugandan-bor...
Influence over the intelligence services has become a crucial front
in the African National Congress’s succession battle. The biggest
casualty so far has been the former Director of the National
Intelligence Agency, Billy Masetlha, who claims he was fi...
Mugabe's cunning but ruinous regime is smarter than its quarrelsome
critics
Soldiers and politicians may grumble but President Robert Mugabe
and his apparatchiks maintain a wrestler's grip on the Zimbabwe
African National Union-Patriotic Front's organisation in all ten
provinces. As in 2000 and 2002, Mugabe is backed by the 'w...
Zimbabwe's highly effective Central Intelligence
Organisation worked to ensure the Lusaka discussions on Zimbabwe
went its way. Four days before the 16-17 August Southern African
Development Community summit, the CIO circulated what it claimed
was a c...
The military is losing out in its power struggle with the intelligence services, and President Mugabe is the beneficiary
The market principle of ‘'buy when there’s blood on the streets’ has drawn new investors to Zimbabwe
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