Expectations ahead of the start of PAP

With the opening of the Pan-African Parliament’s (PAP) third session tomorrow, there are many expectations of what will be on the agenda for PAP.
Zimbabwe: A pre-election Overview and Recovery Scenarios

This publication, from 2005, offers an overview of Zimbabwean politics, and recovery scenarios.
Role of WTO misunderstood

In the wake of the failed Cancun ministerial conference, World Trade Organisation (WTO) director-general Supachai Panitchpakdi called on members to do some ‘soul-searching’ to save the multilateral trading system from apparent impending doom.
Zimbabwe Poll Fallout

There’s ongoing disagreement about the role played by African countries in sanctioning ZANU-PF’s landslide in Zimbabwe’s parliamentary elections on 31 March.
Zimbabwe Elections 2005: Op-Eds

Herewith the most recent listing of news and media items relating to Zimbabwe’s Parliamentary Elections 2005.
Zanu-PF dink aan regverdige verslaggroepe vir verkiesing: Zim nooi ‘regte’ waarnemers

Kaapstad – Waarnemergroepe wat die Zimbabwiese verkiesing wil bywoon, sal ‘binne die volgende paar dae’ hul uitnodigings ontvang, het ‘n senior Zimbabwiese diplomaat gister gesê.
Latin America’s Parallel Path

Both Latin America and SA experienced positive economic growth last year, coupled with stable exchange rates, controlled inflation and a strong domestic consumer market.
The Africa Commission – Comment

CLASSICFM: People say the way to empower Africa is to increase trade by bringing down trade barriers. Trade with Africa has actually fallen – as a share of international trade – over the last few years – at a time when it should be increasing. Commentary from Peter Draper at the SA Institute of International Affairs.
Many paths to recovery, but Africa needs one map: African Diaspora

Following many attempts at political and economic integration, the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) appears to be the road map with which the continent will extricate itself from exploitation, poverty and global weakness.
Crown princess faces big challenges: Succession in Zimbabwe

It is curious how the South African public has only just awoken to the fact that Zimbabwe’s next president may be a woman from Zanu (PF).