Posts by Charles Rukuni

Zimbabwe has enormous potential but it will not be able to exploit this until and unless there is a clearer political roadmap and the brain drain of Zimbabweans to all parts of the world is reversed, a British peer, Lord St John Bletso, said during a debate on Zimbabwe in the House of Lords last week.

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William Gumede’s book: Thabo Mbeki and the battle for the soul of the ANC has some interesting comparisons of Mbeki and his predecessor Nelson Mandela. It also has an interesting quote from Mohandas Ghandi who Gumede says Mandela admired greatly.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti has described his job as the worst in the world but at the same time he said Zimbabwe is misunderstood. He said a lot of investors did not know what they were dealing with because there is a lot of negativity that is being churned out on the internet and in newspapers.

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Another British peer has said that though he supports sanctions on Zimbabwe, Britain’s sanctions policy “has singularly been ineffective” and has been used as a weapon by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to bolster support against the West for the country’s poor economic performance.

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Vice President Joyce Mujuru, who was catapulted to power in 2004 in a move that nearly split the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front, is now the favourite to take over from President Robert Mugabe should he die in office, according to a British peer.

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