Stories

Rhodesians never die is the title of a book by Peter Godwin and Ian Hancock.  According to its sales pitch: the book is a “story of how White Rhodesians, three-quarters…

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is an industry. A money spinning industry. A cash cow. If Mugabe Inc. were listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, it would probably be one…

Human trafficking is rife in Zimbabwe with women being lured to as far as China and Canada for prostitution while men are lured into exploitative labour to countries like Malaysia and Nigeria, the trafficking in persons report for 2011 released by the United States says.

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Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Sachin Siv was told by Brazilian officials seven years ago that engagement with countries like Zimbabwe, Libya, Sudan and Cuba and not…

United States assistant secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson asked Botswana vice-president Mompati Merafhe to use the Southern African Development Community to put pressure on Zimbabwean President Robert…

One of the leading United States diamond traders which has been at the forefront of encouraging its clients not to trade in Marange rough diamonds, the Rapaport Group, said in its newsletter yesterday it is doing so to comply with the US Patriot Act and the OFAC regulations raising questions as to whether the United States considers Zimbabwe a terrorist state.

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Four prominent Zimbabwean businessmen living in South Africa discussed with United States officials ways to ease President Robert Mugabe out of power and replace him with a “technocratic” Prime Minister…

One of the country's leading asset management companies says the government and the International Monetary Fund, which say the country's gross domestic product is $5 billion, have got it all…

More people believe Finance Minister Tendai Biti’s forecast that the Zimbabwean economy will grow by more than 9.3 percent this year than the International Monetary Fund’s prediction that the economy will slow down to 5.5 percent.

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Debate about Zimbabwe’s diamonds continues almost a week after the breakdown of Kimberley Process talks in Kinshasa.

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