Zimbabwe

This is not the old style political colonialism, but the one we call “commercial colonialism”: the control exercised by powerful foreign (mainly Western and Chinese) commercial and financial interests across Africa.

On 30 July 2018, Zimbabweans went for the much-awaited harmonised elections after the removal of Robert Mugabe from power by the 18 November 2017 revolution.

The 2018 elections will be remembered as the year where the opposition and the ruling party for the first time, behaved as Siamese twins in terms of presenting an equally neo-liberal economic outlook and for exhibiting similar problems with internal democracy as well as for calling for divine int

Over 70 percent of the electorate participated in the voting where some 23 presidential candidates and dozens of political parties were on the ballot.

Are Western governments the torchbearers of human rights and democracy, as they would want the world to believe – or are there some sinister motives behind their foreign policies?

Although, Zimbabwe is, by far, not new to blasphemy by politicians – having witnessed the shameful comparison of Mugabe to our Lord Jesus Christ, and baseless claims by shadowy prophets that he had been specifically anointed by God to lead the nation, and no one was supposed to challenge him – bu

Admittedly, ZANU-PF’s so-called “victories” at the polls, ever since Zimbabwe’s independence from the British colonial rule in 1980, have been nothing short of questionable – amidst widespread allegations of rigging, intimidation, unfair coverage of opposition parties in the state media, which ha

Introduction

On its website, Geiger International, describes itself as “a leading supplier of security products, vehicular equipment, textile and housing products” adding that it “has successfully been manufacturing, under license, military goods in its own factories in mainland China for over two decades”.

The global corporate powers are stampeding over each other to come and explore vast business opportunities, which Zimbabwe has. Zimbabwe is endowed with vast mineral resources and some of which have never been exploited yet.