Movement for Democratic Change treasurer Roy Bennett addressed an investor conference in Cape Town last month during which he lambasted mining companies for their complicity in “Mugabe’s blackmail”. Here is his full speech.
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A United States publication has named Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai as one of the biggest losers from the release of United States embassy cables by Wikileaks.
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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change yesterday announced that it would hold its congress in Bulawayo at the end of this month.
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The Southern African Development Community troika summit of the Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation which met in Livingstone, Zambia, yesterday called for an immediate end to violence, intimidation, hate speech, harassment, and any other form of action that contradicts the letter and spirit of Global Political Agreement in Zimbabwe.
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Zimbabwe’s private sector could receive a major boost if Britain’s conservative government fulfils one of its election promises, according to one of the cables released by Wikileaks.
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On a recent trip to Harare, I sat next to a South African businessman. He was into trucks. When I asked him if he expected any business in Zimbabwe because I thought a lot of people had bought trucks as a hedge against inflation prior to the formation of the inclusive government in 2009, he was quite frank. There was plenty of business because there was massive expansion in Zimbabwe especially in mining. “Everyone is coming in, the Russians, Europeans, Americans,” he churned out the countries coming back to Zimbabwe so fluently that you could have thought that he was reading from a script.
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The election of the Speaker of Parliament Lovemore Moyo who is national chairman of the Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai was nullified by the Supreme Court on 10 March. A new Speaker was supposed to be elected last week but the sitting was postponed by the Clerk of Parliament. Here is an analysis of the nullification and its consequences by Veritas.
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Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office elevated Zimbabwe to a stand-alone unit within the African Directorate two weeks after the signing of the Global Political Agreement which ushered in the inclusive government because it now merited increased attention- a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks says.
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The Insider has now set up one of the most comprehensive databases of the Wikileaks cables on Zimbabwe which enables readers to view all the cables so far published in just one click.
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