Journalist Stanley Kwenda has fled to South Africa after alleging that he received a death threat by telephone  from a senior police officer, linked to a story he wrote in The Zimbabwean. The newspaper says that “‘impeccable sources” have supplied them with the name of a senior member of the police’s law and order section, a member [...]

Zimbabwe’s attorney general today claimed that the state would move to have its key witness in the terrorism trial of an ally of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai impeached for giving contradicting evidence.
The trial of Roy Bennett -who astonishingly faces a possible death sentence on charges of illegal possession of arms for purposes of committing terrorism, banditry [...]

When your government allows you barely the ease of mind to walk to your nearest intersection, not even the surplus for one to purchase produce or once-abundant maize, and as little faith in executive office as humanly possible, its almost laughable if not so sad to see the latest efforts emanating from Africa’s breadbasket to [...]

Writing currently from Canada, the following piece by Peter Worthington in the Toronto Sun caught my eye. It is truly rare that Canadian media takes a gander at the nation of Zimbabwe, and in this brief perspective, I feel Mr. Worthington is hitting a major point which needs to be further examined in order for Zimbabwe [...]

Rolling the geopolitical dice in the face of continued discombobulation is always a gamble, and when doing so to prop up Zimbabwe amidst a President who still believes he is a freedom fighter and a prime minister barely treading political water, the dice more than likely will fall on ’snake eyes’.
However, in an era of [...]

In a slightly more presidential manner, especially for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, while speaking at the UN World Food Summit on food security in Rome, Mr. Mugabe highlighted climate change as one of the main problems facing food security in Africa.
However, and to no one’s surprise, he later blames sanctions imposed by western powers for [...]

Corporate Foreign Policy has recently reported that Zimbabwe’s government has proposed that “indigenous Zimbabweans” take 51 percent ownership of all foreign companies, including mines and banks, according to a draft law. While the report later went on to quote an official at the Chamber of Mines, expressing surprise and concern at the proposed legislation, it must be [...]

“During the last few years Nestlé has witnessed the collapse of Zimbabwe’s dairy industry. Nestlé prefers to work within contractual agreements to ensure a constant supply of fresh milk, but at the end of 2008, the company found itself operating in a market where 8 of its 16 contractual suppliers had gone out of business.
In [...]

It may seem odd, but it appears the positive works of one man has positioned him unfortunately at the nucleus of the current political turmoil in Zimbabwe. Roy Bennett, one of the right-hand men of Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai – and an implacable opponent of President Mugabe – has been a major thorn in [...]

Zimbabwe has gone through the most dramatic decade in her existence under the rule of Robert Mugabe. What was a decade of degradation, what with operation ‘clean sweep’ and fraudulent remittances, of tumultuous elections with violence, disease and starvation abundant, seemed to be near an end with the signing of a unity government. The Zanu-PF [...]