By admin on Nov 25, 2009 in Featured | 0 Comments
From Foreign Policy – By Laura Wells, 23rd November 2009
The white archnemesis of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe speaks out about the terrorism charges against him, the country’s flailing power-sharing government, Mugabe’s misdeeds, and why he may well have to die for his cause.
(Pictured: Senior Zimbabwean MDC opposition official Roy Bennett, right and Prime Minister Morgan [...]
By admin on Nov 9, 2009 in Featured | 0 Comments
From The Telegraph – By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. 8th November 2009
For brave investors, Zimbabwe could be the ultimate turnaround story When the Movement for Democratic Change took over Zimbabwe’s economy earlier this year, there was not much left to run. Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF regime had carried out the most comprehensive destruction of a productive system [...]
By admin on Sep 25, 2009 in Featured | 0 Comments
Written by The Zimbabwean – 23rd September 2009
In a remote corner of Zimbabwe, the true worth of a vast new diamond field emerges. Robert Mugabe’s response? To allow his mutinous military to enslave villagers as miners and seize the profits – and destroy fragile protocols against blood diamonds. (Pictured: A miner shows some low quality [...]
By admin on Aug 24, 2009 in Featured | 0 Comments
From The Zimbabwe Standard – By Ndamu Sandu, 22nd August 2009
FINANCE Minister Tendai Biti says as long as he is in charge of the treasury, the Zimbabwean dollar will not bounce back.
The Finance Minister made the pronouncement last week after Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono started publicly advocating for the return of the discredited [...]
By admin on Aug 21, 2009 in Featured | 0 Comments
From MineWeb – 20th August 2009
A proposal to reintroduce the Zimbabwean dollar backed by local tangible assets such as gold seems totally unrealistic to part of the government and to external observers.
The Zimbabwean Reserve Bank and Finance ministry are definitely not marching to the same tune, although this is hardly surprising.
In Thursday’s edition of state-run [...]
By admin on Aug 20, 2009 in Featured | 0 Comments
From Nehanda Radio – By Denford Magora, 20th August 2009
I have previously told you about buckets of loose diamonds stored in the vaults of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe but what we did not know was just how this is affecting the “outstanding issue” of Gideon Gono at the Reserve Bank.
The American government recently put [...]