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/ 21 January 2008
Nationwide power failures shut down basic services across Zambia and Zimbabwe for hours over the weekend, and Eskom said it would suspend exports to neighbouring countries amid mounting anger over power cuts that have wreaked havoc in the continent’s economic hub.
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/ 20 January 2008
Nationwide power failures shut down basic services across Zambia and Zimbabwe for hours on Saturday and Sunday as anger mounted in South Africa over power cuts that have wreaked havoc in the continent’s economic hub. There was no immediate explanation for Saturday night’s blackout.
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/ 18 January 2008
South African President Thabo Mbeki met his Zimbabwean counterpart on Thursday after local media reports that he was stepping in to break a deadlock in talks aimed at ending Zimbabwe’s political and economic crises. Mbeki met with Robert Mugabe at a hotel for four hours and also met with members of the political opposition.
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/ 16 January 2008
Zimbabwe’s civil-protection unit issued new warnings of floods expected to further harm the stricken economy as fears grew in neighbouring Mozambique that floods there would be worse than in 2001, when 800 people died. Zimbabwe state radio said on Wednesday that flooding risks were on the increase.
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/ 10 January 2008
Impoverished Zimbabwean farmers have to show they are loyal members of the ruling party if they want free equipment that the government is offering, and opposition supporters have been threatened with dogs, independent democracy monitors said on Thursday.
Tusker is dead, shot by rangers after New Year’s revellers at a safari camp provoked the elephant into trampling several cars, conservationists said on Monday. Tusker, a towering 50-year-old bull, was shot on Sunday at the Charara camp on the shores of Lake Kariba, 370km north-west of Harare.
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/ 25 December 2007
Zimbabweans stood in long, chaotic lines outside banks on Monday, desperate to draw money before stores close for the holidays in a country crippled by economic and political crises. With cash itself in short supply, the central bank has supplied new high denomination notes, the largest worth Z 000.
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/ 5 December 2007
Zimbabwe’s former colonial master lost the stand-off over whether he or the British prime minister would attend an upcoming European-African summit, Robert Mugabe declared on Tuesday. Mugabe also said his nation, suffering chronic shortages of basic goods and worsening power and water outages, continued to defy predictions of economic collapse and social upheaval.
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/ 3 December 2007
The Zimbabwe state airline doubled its fares on Monday and the cost of a new passport went up thirty fold. Spiralling prices also saw restaurant and bar prices double over the weekend. A new spate of price increases in the crumbling economy dealt a further blow to official efforts to combat black-market dealing.
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/ 30 November 2007
Zimbabwe’s finance minister proposed cutting taxes for the growing number of poor, increasing taxes on some manufacturers and cracking down on the black market as cures for his nation’s economic crisis. Samuel Mumbengegwi’s budget speech on Thursday was televised — but unavailable to many because of power failures.