Nkomo’s shoes too big for Dabengwa
Msika and Nkomo have largely depended on Mugabe for their political survival. Mugabe uses them to do a tribal balancing act in terms of representation in both the government and the Zanu PF political party. They are ‘Unity Accord’ window dressing for his political appointments.
Unity government faces obstacles
AS the unity government in Zimbabwe grapples with the mammoth task of mending the country’s tattered economy and social services, thugs aligned to President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF continue to disrupt farm operations with impunity, jeorpadising the country’s chances of improving its erratic food supplies.
Special Feature- Remembering Count Folke Bernadotte
The Killing of Count Folke Bernadotte By STANLEY HELLER September is a month of memorials. Back in 1982 from September 15th to 18th Lebanese fascists militia supported by Israel massacred at least 1,300 people in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Chatilla. The 28th of September in 2000 saw the start of the al-Aksa [...]
Oil to impact global energy, food prices
SPECULATION over the exhaustion of oil supplies, also referred to as ‘Peak Oil’, has raised concerns over the sustainability of the oil dominated energy sector and affiliated farming and manufacturing industries as oil production figures indicate that global oil production is past its peak.
Nuclear option prolongs Namibia’s power crisis
Written by Tawanda KanhemaThursday, 06 March 2008GOVERNMENT’S move towards the exploitation of nuclear energy for electricity generation has dimmed hopes for a timely response to the looming energy crisis, with experts predicting that Namibia’s first nuclear reactor will not run anytime before 2018.Energy experts say investment in Beneficiated Uranium Product (BUP) powered electricity will divert [...]
PROFILE: Botswana, A Cut Above The Rest
PICKING diamonds in the dirt has become a pipedream for many African nations, but Botswana, a landlocked nation mainly made up of the Kalahari desert, has continued to pick diamonds in the fray of socio-economical and political chanllenges facing other African countries today.
Who Feeds Africa’s Dogs of War?
Investigations into the aborted Equatorial Guinea coup d etat have begun to unveil the hand feeding Africa’s “dogs of war”, with recent revelations sucking high profile British figures and global security companies into the controversy.
The plot, which has since emerged to have been conceived by a coterie of global oil magnates, sought to oust President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo overnight and replace him with exiled opposition leader Mr Severo Moto in almost customary coup style.
Doctors For Dollars, The New Migration Economy
The flight of skilled manpower from southern African economies to the global market has reached critical levels, as Zimbabwe, South Africa and other countries in the region contemplate novel strategies to plug the brain drain and retain their best brains or at least maximise earnings from remittances.
In the wake of Europe’s growing demand for skilled manpower, driven by its declining birth rates and an aging workforce, southern African countries are redrafting their immigration laws to mitigate the impact of human capital loses and facilitate the influx of remittances from their established diasporas.
US warned against attacking Iran
A group of nuclear physicists, military experts and diplomats has warned the United States and its military allies against launching an Iraq-style pre-emptive war on Iran to cripple its purported nuclear arms programme, saying such an attack would escalate the global risk of a nuclear holocaust.