Posts by Charles Rukuni

Zimbabwe seems to have had a good start to 2011. It has received good publicity from an unlikely quarter, The New York Post. The Post , the 13th oldest newspaper in the United States but generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, on January 4 had a picture splash of Zimbabwe’s tourist attractions including the Victoria Falls, the Hwange National Park, the Victoria Falls bridge and the capital Harare.

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AfroBarometer which recently released its survey that showed that 70 percent of the Zimbabweans polled wanted elections this year but nearly half did not want to disclose the party they would vote for says its data should not be used to make any predictions about forthcoming elections.

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Zimbabwe’s political landscape has hardly changed over the past two years. The country still has the same three key political party players, though a fourth has entered into the fray. Within the political players the movers and shakers are largely still the same except for the Movement for Democratic Change-Mutambara faction where the vice-President Gibson Sibanda died. But Sibanda was no longer a major political player. He was only being accommodated to save face.

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Twists and turns continue in the Marange diamonds saga. Israel, which relinquished its chairmanship of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme at the end of December, is making a last ditch attempt to get the KPCS to allow Marange to legally sell its rough diamonds.

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