ZIMBABWE TAKES STEPS TOWARDS FIGHTING COMMERCIAL CRIME – BUT HOW MUCH ACTION IS MERE POLITICAL SCORE SETTLING?
October 1st, 2018
THE POLITICAL career of Zimbabwe’s longtime President Robert Mugabe may have been consigned to history last November (2017), when he was forced from power, but the patronage system and corruption of his 38-year rule in Zimbabwe continues to be felt, both on the streets and in boardrooms. Kudzai Mashininga, reports from Harare.
WITH the newly elected Zanu-PF government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa consolidating its power after a contested election on July 30, it faces an uphill task to restore confidence that Zimbabwe’s public authorities are ...
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