Mhangura makes a $78m loss

Nothing seems to be going on well for the troubled Mhangura Copper Mines. It's results for the 12 months ending June 1998, were seven months late and they were a…

Zimbabwe: a hard sell

South Africa's Business Day of October 19, 1998 provided an interesting scenario of how difficult it must be to sell Zimbabwe to investors. On the front page was a story…

Mugabe in desperate moves!

The last 12 months have been a nightmare for President Robert Mugabe. Faced with probably the stiffest challenge to his leadership in the 18 years he has been at the…

Mutasa shoots his mouth again

ZANU-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa and now confirmed Manicaland boss after his faction swept all the seats in the provincial elections held recently is once again shooting off his…

Chiyangwa and indigenisation

When the Affirmative Action Group was formed in 1994, there was a lot of acrimony about the new organisation. Several questions were raised about why it had been formed when…

Indigenous Farmers Duped

For the past two months, peasant farmers, disgruntled with the slow pace of resettlement and empty promises over the past 18 years, have been invading commercial farms and settling themselves.…