Mugabe's darkest secret: An £800bn blood diamond mine he's running with China's Red Army Andrew Malone, The Daily Mail 17 September 2010   Image: Dictator Robert Mugabe's regime claimed the diamond mines as their own, using brutal methods to make sure no-one tried to take the stones Across a remote tract of southern Africa, naturally ­fortified by mountains and patrolled by hundreds of ­soldiers with dogs trained to tear intruders apart,

Mugabe's poison Zimvigil, Zimvigil Co-ordinator 25 May 2015   President Mugabe has called on South Africans to direct their xenophobia at whites instead of blacks. 'I give poison not for you to swallow but to give to someone else' he told the applauding staff at SADC Headquarters in Botswana. Speaking as Chair of the African Union as well as of SADC, Mugabe said South Africa needed a second liberation which would transfer wealth to blacks marginalised

Ominous Warning Signs Resurface in Zimbabwe Ethnic hatreds, murky disappearances, and the purging of enemies are all on the rise in Robert Mugabe's dictatorship. Jeffrey Smith & Todd Moss, Foreign Policy 03 June 2015 (posted on Genocide Watch 04 June 2015)     The southern African nation of Zimbabwe has fallen off the international radar screen in recent years, but alarm bells should be ringing loud and clear. Over the course of the

As the House Burns, Whither the Zimbabwean Opposition? Nicole Beardsworth, African Arguments 23 April 2015   The Zimbabwean economy is going through structural regression, with rapid deindustrialisation, burgeoning external debt, an over 85% formal unemployment rate and nominal growth due to declining investment and a biting liquidity crunch. Between 2011 and 2015 over 4,610 companies closed their doors leaving over 55 000 workers redundant,

Xenophobia can easily mutate into genocide- Zimbabwe Minister of Information News 24 14 April 2015   Harare - Zimbabwe's outspoken information minister, Jonathan Moyo, hit out on Tuesday at xenophobic attacks in South Africa, warning that xenophobia could "easily mutate" into genocide. "King [Goodwill] Zwelithini must extinguish what he ignited. Xenophobia is a crime against humanity," Moyo tweeted in one of the first public reactions from

In Zimbabwe, the route to power is called Mugabe By MacDonald Dzirutwe, Reuters 2 December 2014 Ninety-year-old Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is - quite literally - paving the way for his wife's ascent to power. In another sign of the First Lady's growing clout, Harare residents awoke on Tuesday to a new street, Dr Grace Mugabe Way, leading to the conference center where Africa's oldest leader may this week anoint his chosen political successor.

South Africa's police must investigate Zimbabwe torture allegations by Max du Plessis & Anna Maunganidze 11/10/2014 Source: Institute for Security Studies Source Website: http://www.issafrica.org African Charter Article# 4: Everyone's life and integrity are inviolable. Summary & Comment: The landmark judgment which ordered the prosecuting and investigating authorities to investigate documented crimes against humanity, includi! ng acts of

Zimbabwe: Waiting for the Future By The International Crisis Group Full PDF report here Zimbabwe’s growing instability is exacerbated by dire economic decline, endemic governance failures, and tensions over ruling party succession; without major political and economic reforms, the country could slide into being a failed state. A year on since the election victory of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), Zimbabwe’s

Zimbabwe: Will China feed us? Vince Musewe 11 September 2014 Vince Musewe says the country is not going to see the purported economic revolution until land ownership is corrected and rationalised I find it incomprehensible that some of us are celebrating and boasting about the recent trip to China. The heap of papers that the President returned with, are not likely to convert into jobs for Zimbabweans in the short term, nor will they result in better

Zimbabwe: MDC-T UK Protests Against EU Harare Envoy By allAfrica.com, NewZimbabwe.com July 11, 2014  THE opposition MDC-T party's UK branch will hold protests this Saturday to call the "world's attention to the oppressive regime" in Zimbabwe as well as demand the recall of the European Union's Harare envoy. The branch, aligned to the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC, wants EU Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Aldo Dell'Ariccia, recalled for allegedly "misinforming"