Zuma expected to unlock deadlock »

From The Zimbabwe Times – By Raymond Maingire, 27th August 2009
HARARE – South African President Jacob Zuma flew into Zimbabwe Thursday evening amid high expectations he would use his influence as current SADC chair to unlock a political deadlock that continues to haunt Zimbabwe’s six month old unity government.
Zuma touched down at the Harare International [...]

Panicking Gono is blackmailing his Zanu PF friends »

From Nehanda Radio – By Denford Magora, 21st April 2009
I can honestly say that I have never done an article on this blog that generated as much “live” feedback as the story, in which I told you all about Gono trying to take the fight to Tsvangirai and Biti by drawing in a large number [...]

Grace Mugabe off to Malaysia on holiday »

From The Zimbabwe Times – January 4, 2009
Grace Mugabe
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s First Family flies out of Harare en route to Malaysia early this week but without the head of family, President Robert Mugabe.
For what is probably the first time in many years he is spending his vacation at home amid reports he feels insecure, confronted [...]

Two Comical Alis for the price of one »

From The Zimbabwe Times

December 14, 2008, By James Makuvise
President Robert Mugabe’s press secretary, George Charamba, scrambled with feigned anger last week to undo the damage his boss had caused by declaring in public that cholera had been contained.
In his mind, President Mugabe probably did believe that cholera had indeed been contained and that it was [...]

Zimbabwe pumps Z$80 trln into economy to ease cash crunch »

From Reuters
Thu 4 Dec 2008

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s central bank on Thursday injected 80 trillion Zimbabwe dollars in new bank notes into the economy in a bid to end cash shortages that have seen hordes besieging banks amid a deepening economic crisis.
Zimbabwe has the highest inflation rate in the world, officially above 231 million [...]

Drumsticks at $88 000 000 is clearly obscene »

From ZimbabweJournalists.com By Chenjerai Chitsaru
LAST WEEK, I bought two drumsticks at a take-away place in the central business district of Harare for Z$88million.
This is obscene, I said to the assistant who served me. “Oh? What is not obscene in this God-forsaken country today?” she hit back.
It turned out to be one of those rare occasions [...]