Mugabe catches analysts offside

David Plotz of the internet magazine Slate, described President Robert Mugabe in the run-up to the 2000 parliamentary elections as a "scheming survivor", a man who never ran out of…

Economic refugees

The International Organisation for Migration today said that millions of Zimbabweans who left home and settled in foreign countries are economic refugees.  Most have sought asylum claiming they fled the…

Zimbabwe gets positive coverage from an unlikely quarter

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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Mutambara out, Ncube in

Welshman Ncube was today elected president of the Movement for Democratic Change-Mutambara faction, taking over from Arthur Mutambara who decided not to contest the elections. It is not clear whether…

Zimbabwe- the evolving public mood

AfroBarometer has just released a survey entitled: Zimbabwe- the evolving public mood.  There are already several interpretations of this survey. Here is the full report so that you can make…