Situation Report: Zimbabwe`s Turmoil: Problems and Prospects

On 27 November 2002 the African Security Analysis Programme hosted a day-long seminar entitled “Zimbabwe in turmoil”. The principal idea was to tap into expertise from within that country itself, and a number of prominent Zimbabweans were kind enough to fly south to share their insights, hopes and fears. Since then, unfortunately, an already grave situation has deteriorated further, and expectations raised at the beginning of 2003 of the possibility of a managed or negotiated transition to a new and more tolerant political dispensation paving the way towards economic revival seem to have been over-optimistic.