Despite its cold war with Whitehall, Harare's biggest financiers are London-based banks and insurance companies
Goverment data on the economy reads like fiction
Special reports from the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front's annual conference, 14-17 December 2006. This article is free to all users in Special Reports.
The ruling party's barons are getting ready for the national
conference this week - by suing each other. The Zimbabwe African
National Union-Patriotic Front's National Chairman John Nkomo,
who is parliamentary Speaker, was the first to say he would sta...
Rival factions are ramping up corruption claims against each
other in the run-up to the annual conference on 14-17 December
of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. Police sources in Harare report that detectives are
investigating...
Party factions jostle for power, fearing that Mugabe's departure will be worse than his presidency
Solomon Mujuru remains a key party kingmaker and a leading
member of the 'inner cabinet' or Committee of 26. Its primacy
is resented, particularly in Matebeleland. Enos Nkala,
a former ZANU-PF Minister, last month called for Mugabe's immediate
departu...
Despite a chaotic currency change, its architect Gideon Gono remains
the President's close ally
Who wants tycoon John Arnold Bredenkamp out of the way?
On 21 July, Zimbabwean police arrested Bredenkamp on charges of
illegally using a foreign passport and remanded him until 8 August.
When Themba Ncube, leader of Bulawayo's 'war veterans',
was assaulted in his office on 30 May, the media wrongly reported
it as a battle for control of the local veterans' chapter. In
fact, Ncube was attacked by ex-colleagues from the Zimbabwe People's...
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