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No secret deportations

South Africa's Home Affairs department today denied that it was engaged in secret deportation of illegal Zimbabwean immigrants. Immigrant rights advocacy groups have accused the department of secretly deporting Zimbabweans.…
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Econet in the clear

Econet’s local chief executive Douglas Mboweni had to assure United States embassy officials in Harare that the country’s biggest mobile phone network was not going to lose its licence after the state media had indicated that the network owned by Strive Masiyiwa, who also owned of the Daily News, could lose its licence.

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Daily News group sues Jonathan Moyo for $58 million

“We have a classic case here in which the prey has become the predator.” This is the opening sentence of a cable from the United States embassy in which officials were reporting about the lawsuit filed by the Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe, publishers of the Daily News, against Information Minister Jonathan Moyo.

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Mugabe on Zimplats

President Robert Mugabe today said the government does not intend to take over Implats' Zimbabwe operations. "Mr Brown, go and tell your shareholders that we don't intend to take over…
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Zimbabwe suing EU

Attorney- general Johannes Tomana today said he planned to file suit against the European Union to challenge a travel ban affecting the country's president and senior officials. "We are finalizing…
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The cable that got the generals into trouble

Brigadier General Herbert Chingono, Inspector General for the Zimbabwe National Army, and Major General Fidelis Satuku, Director General for Policy and Personnel, Zimbabwe Defence Forces, took a huge risk when they talked to United States ambassador Charles Ray and the United States embassy defence attaché on 5 and 6 January last year.

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