by Andrew Moran | Jun 1, 2023 | Business News, Lights, Camera, Action, Opinion, Swamponomics
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe recently announced that it will launch gold-backed digital currency after enduring hyperinflation for much of the 21st century. But while some have expressed doubt that this will succeed in the southern African country, Harare could pave...
by Andrew Moran | Aug 4, 2020 | Articles, International, Politics, Race, Social Issues
Since its declaration of independence, the Zimbabwe government has engaged in a crusade against its white minority. At first, it was a bureaucratic battle to confiscate land from white commercial farmers. Twenty years later, former President Robert Mugabe and his...
by Andrew Moran | Jul 20, 2020 | Articles, International, International, Politics, The Left
Good folks tell us that you should never take pleasure in a person’s death. But was Robert Mugabe a person? Historical opinion of the man is that he was a Marxist tyrant who ruled with an iron fist and forced everyone to live in destitution and misery while he...
by Andrew Moran | Nov 25, 2017 | International
Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, will see its first new leader in nearly 40 years this month. After three decades of seeing the world’s poorest billionaires carry around wheelbarrows of cash to buy a loaf of bread, the former Rhodesia will attempt to turn the...
by James Fite | Nov 21, 2017 | International
President Robert Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe since 1980, announced his resignation Tuesday. Parliament positions Mugabe’s move as voluntary, but it’s likely that the now-former president saw no other way out of a politically tense predicament. It’s still unclear what...