Global Analysis

Zimbabwe: Sophists for Sanctions
Tony Hawkins, a professor of economics at the University of Zimbabwe, thinks that Western sanctions on Zimbabwe should be maintained but that their effects "are minimal" and that "their continued existence really plays into the hands of some people in Zanu-PF...More

Tsvangirai must walk the sanctions talk
Editor — A decade ago, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in his capacity as leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, called for the imposition of sanctions on Zimbabwe as one of the methods he thought would assist him to occupy the highest office in the land...More

Media have duty to promote unity
FOR well over three hours last Thursday, President Mugabe spoke to editors of local media houses about the progress the inclusive Government has made in its first year...More

New constitution: Give women a bigger say
Zimbabwe is in the process of formulating a new constitution, following the signing of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) in September 2008, and the formation of the inclusive Government in February 2009...More

Sanctions: Move from denial mode
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai made a pronouncement that many Zimbabweans have been urging him to make even before the formation of the inclusive Government...more

KPCS must give complete checklist
ZIMBABWE wishes and needs to market its diamonds in conformity with the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme to obtain the best prices and to avoid other trade problems that arise from dealing in diamonds outside that process...More

Propaganda in quest to conquer history
IT is rather a surprise that each problem with the MDC-T is viewed by the party’s admirers as a corroboration of the shortcomings of the party’s political opponents, and we are told that the calcareous plague of corruption bedevilling the party now is all a creation of Zanu-PF...More

BBC film unAfrican and abuses Zimbabwean children
I HAVE just watched a so-called documentary on BBC4 by one South African Xoliswa Sithole. The well-fed presenter, attempting to speak English with some kind of American accent, tells the viewers that although she grew up in Zimbabwe, she is actually South African and says that during Apartheid years, her mother brought her to Zimbabwe for a better life and education...More

West must listen to Zim voices
WE hope the condescending Westerners were listening on Monday afternoon when Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai finally added his voice to the anti-sanctions lobby by calling on the West to remove all forms of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans...More

HIPC: Wrong prescription for Zim debt management
HIGHLY Indebted Poor Country status is not the answer to the Zimbabwe debt problem. Zimbabwe is not Haiti. The country does not suffer from inherent incapacity that would require outside management of its resources for it to get out of the debt, which was exogenously induced..More.

Why it pays to look East
AS the global economic balance of power shifts from West to East, it is becoming increasingly evident that we are living through the end of 500 years of Western ascendancy. Consequently, Zimbabwe must exercise long-term strategic vision, by perfecting the art of benefiting from China...More

Constitution-making and the moral compass
THIS is the first of a two-part series in which BISHOP TREVOR E. C. MANHANGA, presiding Bishop of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Zimbabwe, writing in his personal capacity, looks at the role of religion in the constitution-making process and why the exercise should be owned and controlled by Zimbabweans...More

EU a gang of criminals: SK Moyo
Freelance journalist Raymond Utsiwegota recently interviewed the Zanu PF National Chairman Simon Khaya Moyo on several issues including succession, elections and sanctions...More

Ostriches in our midst
IT is a common belief that when confronted with an uncomfortable situation, ostriches — which have the distinction of having eyes bigger than their brains — tend to bury their heads in the sand so that they do not see the approaching danger...More

Dilemmas of political analysis
READERS sometimes attack political writers and commentators for focusing criticism against the activities of certain groups; and for this writer, against the imperial West and those who offer the US-led Western alliance lap-dog support...More

No substitute for indigenisation
THE brave men and women who fought and died for Zimbabwe, did so not only to win us political independence, but also full economic independence...More

EU undermining GPA
SO the European Union has finally resolved to extend the illegal ruinous economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by another year?

US must do away with ZDERA
THE last time the US Congressional delegation led by Mr Gregory Meeks visited Zimbabwe they only made a whistle stop at State House to meet President Mugabe on their way to the airport.

Botswana, Black sheep of Southern Africa
OF all the countries in the region Botswana has decided to be the black sheep of the family by antagonizing its relations with Zimbabwe only to please the western imperialists who have an embedded regime change agenda...More

New farmers well on course
THE curtain went up on the tobacco auction floors on Tuesday, signalling the opening of the 2010 tobacco marketing season...More

Response to indigenisation regulations
CALEDONIA Mining Corporation ("Caledonia") (TSX:CAL)(OTCBB:CALVF)(AIM:CMCL) notes the recent gazetting of regulations pursuant to section 21 of the Indigenisation and Empowerment Act of 2008, in terms of which all companies are required to submit an indigenisation plan by April 15, 2010 explaining how their Zimbabwean operations will achieve the required minimum level of 51% ownership by indigenous Zimbabweans within five years across all business sectors...More

Some MPs turning into Missing Persons
In Parliament with Farirai Machivenyika
LAST week I talked about the various Parliamentary Committees that exist and the purposes they serve...More

When diamonds become pawns in a power game
AS the national economic empowerment agenda begins to take root in our country against the backdrop of continuing illegal sanctions whose main thrust was maliciously extended and expanded on Tuesday by the European Union to derail and sabotage the GPA under pressure from the British government with support from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC-T...More

Defamation of Zim persists
WHEN Prime Minister Tsvangirai parroted David Miliband’s "calibrated sanctions" as "staggered sanctions" in Davos, Switzerland, on January 31 2010; David Frost of Aljazeera asked the Prime Minister what he thought he could achieve by inviting investors to Zimbabwe while also asking for staggered or calibrated sanctions against the country..More

Zim diamonds: Foreign hand evident
The Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation states in its opinion piece placed in Zimbabwe’s national Sunday newspaper, The Sunday Mail, on December 20, 2009 that: "Diamond sales are expected to earn the country substantial revenue that will significantly bolster the national fiscus....More

Youth empowerment is vital
The world’s cognitive powers are witnessing how young, energetic, enthusiastic and talented life wastes away in immoral habit that is worsening the present plight...More

Is Devolution of Power an Option
With the Constitutional process currently underway this could be seen as a positive sign that the governing parties are committed to respecting their 2008 commitments as well as giving Zimbabwean people the opportunity to decide how they themselves wish to be governed...More

Reparations on Land Key to Reconciliation in Zimbabwe
The jostling by political parties over points to be considered and included in the new constitution is based on political ambitions and power struggles by political elites..More

Equating Criminality with Political Motivated Violence Iniquitous
The GPA has brought so much political, social and economic stability, a fact, which can not be disputed, the GPA which has been warmly embraced by all forward minded Zimbabweans has witnessed so much political tolerance which has seen a marked reduction in incidents of political violence ..More

Agriculture: The economic driver of Zimbabwe
The continent of Africa is well known for being dependant on agriculture. In spite of the fact that almost 65% of the continent’s population is engaged in farming, there is food deficit in Africa ...More