Zimbabwe Kills Black Empowerment Mining Ownership Limits In Pursuit Of Capital
Zimbabwe has insisted that platinum mines should have significant local ownership as part of a policy of black empowerment. The problem with this being...
Typically Authoritarian Government – Tanzania Cracks Down On Foreign Exchange Bureaux
The stated reason for Tanzania cracking down on foreign exchange bureaux is that some of them are fronts for money laundering, are operating without...
Call It What It Is, Censorship – Tanzania Closes The Citizen
Censorship is a little like that pornography that the Supreme Curt decided upon - I know it when I see it. So it is...
Aluminium Might Not Be The Right Export Industry For Ghana
It's entirely true that Ghana has substantial bauxite reserves and it's equally true that economic wealth is built by moving up the value chain,...
Battle Of Adwa – Not First Battle Victory of Blacks Over White Colonisers But...
Ethiopia has been celebrating the Battle of Adwa when Menelik II and his troops took apart an Italian army trying to invade the country....
Zimbabwe’s Econet Beats $100 Million Tax Evasion Rap
Given the thuggish manner the Zimbabwean economy was being run back in 2013 - by thugs, obviously - it's not a great surprise that...
My, Isn’t Tanzania Fighting Against Fake News – Censorship As The Citizen Closed
What we might call fake news - that Katie Price is about to marry the Duke of Edinburgh - and what the authorities call...
Ethiopia’s Ethio Telecom Privatisation – Capitalism And Getting The Money Now
The Prime Minister of Ethiopia has been known to say that the governing system in that country is now capitalism. Leaving aside that that's...
Weird Claims In Uganda – The Phone Company Was Wiretapping The Government
All things are possible of course but this one does sound more than a little odd. A mobile telecoms company in Uganda was wiretapping...
The New Zim $ Doesn’t Cut Worker’s Wages – It Recognises Past Cuts
It's terribly important to understand the difference between nominal and real prices changes - as here with Zimbabwe's new currency system. When expressed in...