Zimbabwe Insider - Part 1720

  • Tobacco crop now estimated at 85m kgs

    This year’s tobacco has been revised slightly upwards at 85 million kgs. Though large-scale commercial farmers have reduced the hectarage under tobacco from 55 547...

  • Bob still in control

    Talk about Mugabe’s exit plan and how the deal went sour continues, but apparently, the President who turned 79 this month is still very much...

  • Chinos and ZFTU

    Though the pro-government media, especially the electronic media, has been pushing forward the Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Unions (ZFTU) as the representative of the workers...

  • Another paper

    News that Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe, publishers of the Daily News, are finally going to launch their Sunday paper has sent the media industry in...

  • Mugabe moves one notch up

    The departure of Daniel arap Moi in December after leading Kenya for 24-years has seen Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe move one notch up among the...

  • Where is the maize going?

    The figures do not add up. According to the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWSNet), an agency funded by the United States Agency for International...

  • Bleak prospects for investors

    Zimbabwean investors will be in a catch-22 situation this year. There are no more safe havens for their money. The equity market to which most...

  • France to the rescue?

    France has hit Britain below the belt. Already at odds with Britain over the war against Iraq, France has invited President Robert Mugabe to attend...

  • Delta thriving on increased spending

    Despite the high inflation, negative interest rates, severe foreign currency shortages, an unrealistic exchange rate and falling formal employment, consumer spending has been firm largely...