Inside Zimbabwean tycoon Billy Rautenbach's offshore family trust

Records from a massive offshore data leak have provided the most detailed account yet of buccaneering mining and fuel magnate Billy Rautenbach's family empire.It started with a marriage settle...

COVID-19 vaccine: Africa must work with China

THERE is a global race to procure COVID-19 vaccines, and right now South Africa is not doing well. Currently, the race leaders are Israel who have already vaccinated more than 9% of their population a...

SA finance minister confirms short-term Zimbabwe bail out plan

SOUTH Africa is planning to extend short-term credit to Zimbabwe and also to help it write off its US$7.4-billion external debt, to prevent its neighbour spiralling out of control. Critics say this wi...

Zimbabweans tell of hopelessness ahead of elections

Seven months into the new presidency, and just a month before elections - the first without Robert Mugabe since independence - Zimbabweans are telling a story of lost hope."What difference doe...

Mugabe pursued his objectives with ruthless violence

The ruthless violence with which Mugabe pursued his objectives after Zimbabwe's independence in 1980 has prompted biographers, analysts and critics to search for indications of this propensity in earl...

Tsvangirai delights in Mugabe's woes

MORGAN Tsvangirai lives in a very nice house.It's a grey, two-storey mansion in the heart of one of Harare's most exclusive suburbs, complete with imposing pillars, sweeping driveway, and a pu...

British ambassador's Zimbabwe blues

LONDON - At any question-and-answer session, there's always someone who asks something inappropriate.In Harare on Wednesday night, at a panel discussion on Zimbabwe's post-Mugabe future, t...

Mugabe's ego bruised, but power very much intact

On Wednesday, a very old man tripped down some stairs, and the world laughed and laughed and laughed.The tumble made headlines everywhere - The Washington Post, The Daily Mail, the New York Ti...