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Zimbabwe
Population: 13.4mn.
GNI, $ : n/a
Debt: 2.6bn.
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  • Vol 5 No 2
  •  December 2011

Essar takes control of Zisco

India’s Essar Group has at last won control of Zimbabwe’s iron and steel works, after months of infighting in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front threatened to derail the deal.

  • Vol 5 No 1
  •  November 2011

Harare in the sky with diamonds

The government is working on a diamond-backed deal to buy new aeroplanes as the Kimberley Process allows the country to export gems again

  • Vol 5 No 1
  •  November 2011

Protection makes a racket

South Korean companies had worried that they would not receive the same advantages as Chinese companies (AAC Vol 4 No 12, Faith, Grace and intervention). However, Indigenisation Minister Saviour Kasukuwere reassured a group of South Korean businessmen on ...

  • Vol 4 No 12
  •  October 2011

The wages of Xin

The award of the ZISCO deal to India’s Essar is only one sign that Chinese companies are losing traction in the government of national unity

  • Vol 4 No 12
  •  October 2011

Faith, Grace and intervention

WikiLeaks cables reveal that First Lady Grace Mugabe is an important facilitator for South Korean companies looking for business opportunities in Zimbabwe. Charles A. Ray, the United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe, reports that Oh Jae-hack, his South ...

  • Vol 4 No 11
  •  September 2011

Vanishing truckers

Key suspects in a fraud case linked to Grace Mugabe have disappeared, as have Buddhist monks behind a charity project on one of her properties

  • Vol 4 No 11
  •  September 2011

Zisco deal still kicking

Just as NewZim Steel, formerly known as the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Corporation (Zisco), is about to hold its first board meeting at the end of September, reports are emerging in the South African media of dissension among Zimbabwe African National Union-...

  • Vol 4 No 9
  •  July 2011

Polish to a shine

Beijing frets over the image of Chinese companies as the Zimbabwean opposition rails against more loans and Chinese diamond miners

  • Vol 4 No 9
  •  July 2011

Trucking trials

The trial of Jack Hsieh (Hsieh Ping-sung) and his four truckers, accused of defrauding powerful Zimbabwean interests, rumbles on. Hsieh, who is from Taiwan and has South African nationality, was charged some months ago with fraud over the purchase and del...

  • Vol 4 No 7
  •  May 2011

Trucks, triads and subs

Few believe the official explanation that 87-year-old President Robert Mugabe’s frequent visits to Singapore are to monitor his February cataract operation or that he is being the doting husband to his injured wife, Grace. Equally few believe that the sim...

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