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Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi’s visit to Zimbabwe today has raised eyebrows especially from the West which fears that if China brings the investment that has so far been reported about to Zimbabwe this could bolster President Robert Mugabe’s hold on power.

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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe may have been desperate when he adopted his "Look East" policy but he was definitely looking in the right direction.  The visit of Chinese Foreign Minister…

Three years ago, I was asked to present a paper on the State of the Media in Zimbabwe at the African Investigative Journalism Conference in Johannesburg.  When I read the…

Britain was so optimistic two days before a United Nations Security Council meeting in July 2008 that China and Russia would support a resolution to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe that Prime Minister Gordon Brown felt that his “nose had been bloodied” by the Russians when they vetoed the resolution.

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Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara says he is not quitting his post though he was replaced as party leader by secretary Welshman Ncube. He argues that he will not abdicate…

Mining companies operating in Africa are being granted too many tax subsidies and concessions; and there is a high incidence of tax avoidance by the mining companies which are protected…

Britain has been funding the Zimbabwe military, which has been accused of human rights violations and looting diamonds from Marange, over the past 12 months but the under-secretary for Defence Andrew Robathan refused to disclose how much the British government was paying to Zimbabwe and several other countries under its programme. 

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Calls for a Ndebele nation will continue to linger on for years to come because this is essentially a search for identity rather than for secession, so said a political…

Zimbabwe, under President Robert Mugabe, has descended from the intensive care unit into the morgue, according to the African Presidents Index compiled by the Nairobi-based East African Magazine which is part of the Nation Media Group. Mugabe was ranked 47 out of Africa’s 52 presidents and scored 22.62 out of 100. 

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Calls for a separate state continue to be raised in Matabeleland. Six years ago, ZAPU-FP leader Paul Siwela said President Robert Mugabe should not to brush off these calls because…