Vol 5 (AAC) No 4 | ZIMBABWEINDIABRIEFING Diamonds are a rough business 10th February 2012 The two-day state visit of India’s Commerce Minister Anand Sharma in mid-January gave Indian investors the opportunity to complain about the restrictions and obstacles that – despite decades...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 2 | ZIMBABWEINDIABRIEFING Essar takes control of Zisco 13th December 2011 India’s Essar Group has at last won control of Zimbabwe’s iron and steel works, after months of infighting in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front threatened to derail...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 1 | ZIMBABWECHINA Harare in the sky with diamonds 10th November 2011 The government is working on a diamond-backed deal to buy new aeroplanes as the Kimberley Process allows the country to export gems again The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) government has tried to disguise its plan for China Sonangol to finance new airplanes for Air Zimbabwe. The joint venture between...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 1 | ZIMBABWECHINA Protection makes a racket 10th November 2011 South Korean companies had worried that they would not receive the same advantages as Chinese companies (AAC Vol 4 No 12, Faith, Grace and intervention). However, Indigenisation Minister...
Vol 52 No 25 | ZIMBABWE Pachyderms in the parlour 16th December 2011 The threat to the economy from the indigenisation policy is becoming a big issue but for Mugabe’s party it’s non-negotiable The Minister of Economic Planning and Investment Promotion laid it on the line: 'As long as the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act remains in its current form,' warned...
Vol 52 No 24 | ZIMBABWE ZANU's honey trap 2nd December 2011 The Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front’s tacticians once more showed their talent for wrong-footing Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai when he decided to cancel his wedding to a Harare...
Vol 52 No 23 | ZIMBABWE Polls, leaks and expropriations 18th November 2011 The coalition parties have agreed on holding elections next year and campaigning is already in full swing Rather than endure another year of the same political combat, both leaders of the main parties jointly announced on 10 November that they would press for early elections...
Vol 52 No 22 | ZIMBABWE Cyber attack 4th November 2011 Even Harare’s shell-shocked business community was rocked by the arrest, charging and weekend incarceration of Farai Rwodzi, nascent billionaire and one of its youngest and brightest stars, on...
Vol 52 No 21 | ZIMBABWE Devil take the hindermost 21st October 2011 After Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams met President Robert Mugabe on 10 October in Harare, he told journalists Mugabe had appeared shocked by the dossier of property seizures,...
Vol 52 No 19 | ZIMBABWEUNITED STATES US sources run for cover 23rd September 2011 The unredacted WikiLeaks release of US cables from Harare exposes senior politicians and soldiers to witch-hunts The Zimbabwean media gave blanket coverage to the WikiLeaks cables from the United States Embassy in Harare, released last month. Nearly 3,000 dispatches cover the last decade and...