Black youth still struggle for economic equality
A large proportion of young black South Africans perceive the goal of economic liberation as being just as elusive under democratic rule as it was during apartheid, according to recent reports. (02 November 2005)
Economics rule over politics
JUSTICE was done last Friday when the International Monetary Fund saw reason to keep Zimbabwe in its stable, at least for the next six months. (15 September 2005)
Zim not alone in oil price crisis
THE shock induced by spiralling international oil prices has been felt in virtually all countries throughout the world. (14 September 2005)
World leaders meet to review MDGs
WORLD leaders meet in New York next week to review Millennium Development Goals agreed at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000. The MDGs include worthy aims such as halving abject poverty and achieving universal primary education by 2015. (08 September 2005)
US’ exploitative strategy rife in third world
A popular American evangelist, Pat Robertson, called on one of the American television networks for the assassination of the president of the sovereign Latin American country, Venezuela.(05 September 2005)
No to traditional IMF Esap
AS THE International Monetary Fund proceeds with its so-called consultations with the Zimbabwean government, it must be borne in mind that this is an organisation that has troubled Zimbabwe and many other countries in the developing world. Duncan Green describes the IMF in his book Silent Revolution: The Rise of Market Economics in Latin America thus, ““The acronyms of faceless international organisations do not usually start riots, but the three letters IMF (International Monetary Fund) provoke explosive reactions throughout Latin America”. (26 August 2005)
West jittery over Look East policy
WHEN United States (US) President George W. Bush roared, "either you are with us or against us," many may have thought that he was referring to the so-called coalition of the willing which helped him to overrun Baghdad in 2003. (25 August 2005)
US must destroy its nukes first
"WHEN an American President sneezes, the rest of the world is supposed to catch a cold," the late president of Tanzania, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere once said. (24 August 2005)
Dynamics of the SA rescue package
THE rescue package from South Africa to Zimbabwe has raised considerable interest in the last few weeks.(19 August 2005)
Brain drain bleeds Sadc region
THE Southern African Development Community (Sadc) is still battling to stem the flight of highly skilled professionals forcing governments to adopt a battery of preventive and recovery strategies to stem the tide.(15 August 2005)
Zimbabwe operation restore order
Zimbabwe’s clean-up operation, started in early June, has attracted harsh condemnation from Western capitals. The reporting in the Western media has scarcely acknowledged the government side of the story. We asked Zimbabwe’s secretary of information, George Charamba, to react. This is his response.(27 July 2005)
Zim, Africa’s struggle for economic emancipation
JUDGING from media reports, there are serious rural and urban struggles going on in Kenya. The rural struggles centre on the African majority’’s demand for land redistribution; while the urban conflicts reflect demands for a new constitution but only as the surface explanation for deep-seated economic, ethnic and class contradictions. (24 July 2005)
