Back to School Blues: Zimbabwe gets the Dunce’s Cap

By Andrew Field - Follow on Twitter Recently, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation published its extremely comprehensive rankings of African governance providing a pretty interesting insight. On their web site, the Foundation indicates that it compiles its measure of ‘effective delivery of public goods and services to citizens’ from no less that 86 indicators and from …

We are the Patriots, You are the Incorrigible Puppets

By Andrew Field - Follow on Twitter Recently in Zimbabwe, it seems to have become vogue to dangle the national flag from the rear view mirror in your car, ‘emergency’ taxi or truck. Of course, such patriotism is to be entirely commended, if not praised, it is the ultimate in belonging. What could a nation …

Pillage, Plunder and Patronage

By Andrew Field Zimbabwe’s ruling elite have certainly demonstrated their ability to ‘hoist with one's own petard’! The recent legislation concerning the ‘indigenisation’ of business in Zimbabwe is so much a case of ‘cutting off one’s nose’ that one can only marvel at the sanity of its originators. Africans most certainly bore the burden of …