Peter Roebuck has died leaving more question marks than the most enthusiastic YouTube commenter, and given the closed nature of South African policing, straight answers may never be forthcoming, writes freelancer Geoff Lemon.
Zimbabwe
Dictator Watch: Ethiopian despot hides behind snakes, dogs and guns
Behind the gates of this ‘luxury villa’ in Harare lives another member of the World’s Worst Dictator club — or so says our special Zimbabwe correspondent, who wasn’t mad enough to brave the snakes, dogs and guns and knock on the door to say G’day.
Violence, coercion not the only threats to Zimbabwe’s elections
Mugabe’s regime had already brought Zimbabwe to its knees, but it had now lost any political credibility as well, writes Rafiq Copeland, from northern Africa.
Letter from...: Zimbabwe: chance in a lifetime goes begging
All is not beautiful as spring arrives and our chance in a lifetime constitution making process has turned into a shambles, writes Cathy Buckle, from Zimbabwe.
Letter from...: Zimbabwe: ongoing illegal evictions of farmers
Farmers with legal rights to their land are being moved on at gunpoint, writes C.M. Jarrett, chairman of the South African Commercial Farmers Alliance, in Zimbabwe.
Krugman and Wells: This banking crisis feels strangely familiar…
Greece, sup-prime mortgages and Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation — the world’s latest spate of financial crisis are nothing new, write Robin Wells and Paul Krugman: they follow a well-worn script that countries have been re-enacting for centuries.
Zimbabwe’s diamonds: bloody as ever
Despite international outrage over deaths in Zimbabwe’s lucrative diamond trade in 2008, very little has changed: The Sunday Times has uncovered a smuggling ring that goes all the way to the top of the Mugabe government — with Chinese, Israeli and South African backing.
Letter from...: Zimbabwe
The one non-political word most likely to cause animated, angry outbursts in Zimbabwe is ZESA. Officially the acronym stands for Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority, more appropriately it is known as Zimbabwe Electricity Sometimes Available.
Nestlé suckles from the teat of Mugabe’s dirty dairy
Robert Mugabe has built a secret farming empire with land seized from white farmers. Their biggest customer? Swiss food giant Nestlé, which has been lapping up 1 million litres of Mugabe’s milk a year.
Power to the people: forgive the tyrants
Forgiveness of a dictator and ensuring an end to their actions is more crucial than prosecuting them for war crimes, writes Sholto Byrnes. Refusing to seek vengeance shows victims “to be better than their oppressors”.
Fiji no longer the ‘bula-bula-happy-clappy land’
Post Fiji’s 2006 military coup, the economy is collapsing, morale is low and leadership is a mess. “Fiji is on the same path that Burma and Zimbabwe and Nigeria went down”, writes discombobulated.
Uneasy truce in Zimbabwe continues
How is Zimbabwe’s marriage of convenience between Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe going? “We agree to differ” admits Tsvangirai, who says Mugabe will not change and laughs off critics who call him a tyrant.
Zimbabwe: two steps forward, one step back
Six months since Zimbabwe’s power sharing deal, times are still shaky in Harare. “The hope that…[Robert Mugabe] will go quietly appears wishful thinking”, writes David Smith.
Zimbabwe’s elderly whites cash in their ticket “home”
Hundreds of Zimbabwe’s elderly whites are being flown back to Britain by the same state that shipped them out to what was then Rhodesia in the 1950s.
Essay: Zimbabwe’s prisons are death traps
Zimbabwe's prisoners are suffering untold horrors in Zimbabwe's jails, writes the Sokwanele newletter from Harare.
Zimbabwe in crisis: A Crikey wrap
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has clearly lost the plot, denying there is a cholera epidemic unfolding as his country teeters on the verge of collapse.
Crisis in Zimbabwe: a Crikey wrap
As President Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe continues to collapse, we take a look at what the world is saying inside and outside of Africa.
Crikey Says: Crikey says
The news cycle grinds away. Today’s big issue, tomorrow’s forgotten cause. Remember Zimbabwe?
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
What can Crikey readers do to help Zimbabwe?
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
As everyone dithers over Zimbabwe, an email doing the rounds amongst Harare residents shows just how bad the crisis has become.
Zimbabwe gets Mugabe for another five years
After a sham election, Zimbabwe awakes this morning with Robert Mugabe freshly sworn in for another five years as president. By Thomas Hunter.
Notes on life in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, part 3: Election day
Election day has arrived and with feelings of confusion and dream among average Zimbabweans, writes blogger Bev Clark.
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Notes on life in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, part 2
Ahead of tomorrow’s one-candidate presidential run-off election in Zimbabwe, blogger Bev Clark describes the not-so-simple act of buying food while Mugabe remains in power.
Notes on life in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, part 1
Zimbabwen blogger Bev Clarke tells Crikey of her experience of Mugabe’s violence.
