Finance minister Tendai Biti receives bullet in mail »

From SW Radio Africa – By Tichaona Sibanda, 27 July 2009

Finance Minister Tendai Biti on Monday morning received a live bullet and a handwritten note enclosed in a khaki envelope, and addressed to him at his Harare home address.
Biti’s aide Nqobizitha Mlilo, confirmed that the 42 year-old secretary-general of the MDC and MP for Harare [...]

Proceeds from Marange diamonds not benefiting Zimbabweans »

From SW radio Africa – By Lance Guma, 13 July 2009
Several months ago it was reported that there were buckets of rough diamonds kept inside the vaults of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. These were sold on the black market and used to keep the ZANU PF regime afloat, when ordinary Zimbabweans were on their [...]

Mnangagwa Police docket disappears »

From ZimEye.org – 13 July 2009

HARARE (ZimEye)- A police docket implicating two ZANU PF stalwarts who include President Mugabe’s blue eye boy, Emmerson Mnangagwa along with ZANU PF longtime guru, Webster Shamu has vanished from Zimbabwe Attorney-general Johannes Tomana’s office.
As the MDC sought a probe into the matter, efforts to provide Tomana a copy [...]

We will not be cowed! »

From New Zimbabwe – By Luke Tamborinyoka, 6th May 2009

ON TUESDAY, the Zanu PF cabal that has shackled almost all government institutions shocked everyone when it re-detained 18 MDC and civic activists in what must rank as the most calculated and determined assault on the Global Political Agreement signed by the three major political parties [...]

From Riches to Rags: Inflation & Poverty in Zimbabwe »

From The New American – by Warren Mass, Thursday, 19 March 2009

Economists have long used 1920s Germany as the classic example of what can happen to a nation when monetary inflation gets out of control. So rapid was the inflation of the money supply that the exchange rate went from 60 marks per U.S. [...]

Diamond Proceeds Used for Abduction Pay-Outs? »

Confidential sources in the Zimbabwean government claim that Support Unit Constable Gambe led the abduction of Jestina Mukoko abducted on 3 December. Constable Gambe is known to have been involved in abductions and other illegal activities tracked and catalogued by Mukoko and the Zimbabwe Peace Project during the January-September 2008 period. Two other ZPP officials [...]