Knives out as ZANU PF turn on Gideon Gono »

From SW Radio Africa – By Tichaona Sibanda, 22nd March 2010
Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono’s enemies in ZANU PF have moved swiftly to denounce him for his scathing attack against the controversial indigenization bill and want him removed from his job.
Gono’s enemies within the powerful ZANU PF politburo are now using his unusually strong criticism [...]

FP Interview: Roy Bennett »

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 [...]

Gideon Gono Must go: Sadc »

From The Zimbabwe Standard – By Sandra Mandizvidza, 14th November 2009
“He is not going to be put anywhere near finance, actually he must not even be seen in a tuckshop,”
A SOUTHERN African Development Community (Sadc) ministerial team that assessed the implementation of Zimbabwe’s troubled power-sharing arrangement recommended that Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono should be [...]

For brave investors, Zimbabwe could be the ultimate turnaround story »

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 [...]

Mugabe forced to accept SADC GNU Communique »

From The Zimbabwe Standard – 1st November 2009

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe was on Friday forced to accept the January SADC Summit Communiqué that eventually led to the formation of the coalition as a binding document, sources revealed yesterday.
The communiqué, which the veteran leader had all along refused to recognize arguing that it was not part of [...]

Sadc crisis talks as Mugabe, Tsvangirai fall out »

From Business Day – by Dumisani Muleya, 19th October 2009
THE Southern African Development Community (Sadc) will this week intervene in Zimbabwe’s crisis to avert a collapse of its shaky government of unity.
Diplomatic sources said yesterday that Sadc would task the chairman of its organ on politics, defence and security, Mozambican President Armando Guebuza, to hold [...]