After Mugabe

I am a veteran of the struggle for freedom and democracy in Zimbabwe. I seem to have been at it for a century, but I have...

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The situation in Zimbabwe is moving fast and I thought I would give you what my...

Wow – that was fast!

On the 9th of November (six days ago) I wrote that the Mugabe era was at its...

The End of an Era

In 1980, a man called Robert Gabriel Mugabe took over as the Prime Minister of what...

High Court humiliates Kasukuwere 

The decision this week by the High Court of Zimbabwe to nullify the suspension of the...

Who looted Marange diamonds?

This report by Global Witness is the first comprehensive analysis of just what has been going...

The Power of Ideas

Five centuries ago a little-known Monk in a German Monastery nailed a short statement onto the...

Surprised by SADCOPAC

Never heard of it? I am not surprised, neither had I until I was nominated to...

Life is not Fair

Somehow life always manages to disappoint. When I was younger, I was ambitious and aggressive and...

Are our Tribal Roots still relevant?

Over a 1000 years ago three of my distant relatives who were tribal leaders on the...

When the Lunatics take over the Asylum

I took a call from an overseas friend who asked what was happening. I remarked that...

Counting our Blessings

As I drove into our property in Bulawayo I heard the sound of a veld fire...

The Devil in the Detail

In all the years that I worked as an economist in what was then Rhodesia and...

The reverberations from Kenya

Is Africa suddenly changing? At the recent SADC Summit in Johannesburg, a new group of regional...

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