- Just a week of disengagement was enough to show the kind of terror that may confront Zimbabweans if they in any way disengage from the Inclusive Government that presently runs the country. A report by the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has revealed that there was a sharp upsurge in cases of deportations, arbitrary arrests, and abductions in the last week of October 2009, the week in which the Zimbabwean Prime Minister in the Inclusive Government announced that his party was partially pulling out from cabinet meetings and government business until outstanding issues agreed to in the Global Political Agreement (GPA)had been resolved. The GPA was signed by leaders of three major…

- The blessing of a multi currency system is fast fading away in Zimbabwe where service providers are cutting services to consumers who are finding it more and more difficult to pay off their monthly bills. Zimbabwe’s government officially introduced a multi-currency system in March of 2009 after the Inclusive government became effective. This meant that for the first time ever Zimbabwe’s providers of services like tele-communication, electricity, residential services and even commercial businesses could charge for their goods and services in other currencies like the United States Dollar (US$), the British Pound, South African Rand and the Botswana Pula. While this was mos…