| | | | | | | HARARE – A strike by Zimbabwean public workers to demand more pay got off to a slow start yesterday with nearly all government departments open for business, while many schools | | |  Full Story | | | | | | | | | | OPINION: It might surprise many who know of my life in politics and international affairs, but in my heart I consider myself a farmer | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNEBSURG – A newly appointed Thai minister has refused to step down after the US government blacklisted her over alleged business dealings with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s family | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – South Africa last week expelled more than 600 illegal immigrants from Zimbabwe, a top official said at the weekend | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Union leaders yesterday vowed to shut down the entire civil service for the whole week next week as they intensified pressure on the government to hike salaries and improve working conditions | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – A second witness on Thursday told the inquest into the death of former Zimbabwe army commander Solomon Mujuru that she heard the sound of gunfire moments before she was alerted to a fire that destroyed a farmhouse in which | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwean civil servants go on strike tomorrow to press the country’s cash-strapped coalition government to hike salaries and | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE -- The inquest into the death of former army general Solomon Mujuru resumes today after it was temporarily called off yesterday to allow his widow, Vice President Joice Mujuru, time to study | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE -- A security guard has told an inquest into the death of former Zimbabwe army general Solomon Mujuru that he heard what sounded like gunfire shots before he was alerted to a fire that destroyed a house | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – United States sanctions against firms mining Zimbabwe’s Marange diamond deposits will hurt efforts to ensure transparency and end siphoning of revenue from the sale of gems from the controversial mines, Finance Minister Tendai Biti has said | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | Dear Readers -- The editor and the ZimOnline team wish to apologise to our readers that we have not been able to update your favourite news website with fresh news for some weeks now. This was due to a major technical fault with our content management systems that made it impossible for us to upload any new material on the website.
The fault has since been rectified and we have resumed publishing today, while measures have been put in place to ensure this problem does not recur and that we are able to continue to provide you with the news and on Zimbabwe that you need to know. EDITOR | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE -- War veterans at the weekend disrupted a press conference called by the country’s constitutional committee to brief journalists and civil society on progress in the drafting of a new charter for the country | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG -- United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has named Zimbabwean Raisedon Zenenga as his deputy special representative (political) in the world body’s mission in South Sudan | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – International trade watchdog Global Witness has pulled out of the Kimberley Process (KP) -- the international regulator organised to stop the trade in illicit diamonds -- as a result of the certification of the Marange diamonds | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE -- Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has dismissed calls for restructuring of the Zimbabwe’s security forces as part of a foreign agenda to destabilise the country | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – South Africa’s Nando’s fast food outlet on Thursday said it was withdrawing an advert mocking President Robert Mugabe as the last dictator standing following threats | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwean Prime Minister (PM) Morgan Tsvangirai has ended his controversial marriage to a Harare businesswoman that he said political opponents | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | Full statement by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai announcing his divorce from Harare businesswoman Lorcadia Tembo | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE –Youths from President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party have called for a boycott of fast food outlet Nandos in retaliation for an advert flighted on South African television poking fun at the veteran leader | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE -- South Africa’s ruling ANC party on Monday referred a report on nationalisation of mines back to drafters for more detail on | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE - The Roman Catholic church’s human rights arm on Sunday urged Zimbabwean authorities to declare chronic water shortages in the country a national disaster, amid rising cases of typhoid in the capital Harare | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE -- Finance Minister Tendai Biti on Thursday said Zimbabwe’s economy will grow by 9.4 percent next year, while inflation would remain in single digits as the country continues to recover from | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s broadcasting regulator has awarded free-to-air national broadcasting licences to state-owned Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers) and to AB Communications, a private firm that critics say also has links to the government | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – The world’s largest platinum producer, Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), on Wednesday said it will transfer 10 percent shareholding in its Unki mine | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | SHURUGWI – President Robert Mugabe has vowed to “punish severely” homosexuality that he said was un-Christian and un-African | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – The Development Bank of China will provide US$30 million to fund small and medium-scale enterprises in Zimbabwe as Beijing looks to strengthen ties with the resource rich African country | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – More than one million Zimbabweans face food shortages between now and the next harvests beginning around March next year, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has said | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s constitutional reforms could face further delays after a multi-party committee leading the drafting of the new governance charter said it was facing difficulties securing funds | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Two Zimbabwean journalists charged with defamation and theft of documents over a story involving a senior central bank official have been released on US$100 bail each | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE -- Zimbabwe’s annual inflation rate eased to 4.2 percent in October down from 4.3 percent recorded the previous month, the Zimbabwe National Statistical Agency (ZIMSTATS) has said | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwean church leaders say they have asked Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to publicly clarify his position on homosexuality following his calls in recent weeks for the country to uphold gay rights | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s political parties will be barred from showing their strength or popularity in a violent manner, while supporters will be banned from carrying weapons to | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – The wife of Zimbabwe’s top military commander, General Constantine Chiwenga, has accused him of regularly battering her, while threatening to shoot her dared report | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will today call on their followers to shun political violence that has resurfaced in many parts of the country ahead of elections expected next year | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE –Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hear an application for bail by seven MDC activists, saying they should have first sought permission from | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday thanked his Chinese allies for helping defend his rule against Western countries that he says want to topple him. | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s coalition partners yesterday agreed to meet next Friday to discuss ways to end political violence that has resurfaced in many parts of the country ahead of elections expected next year | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Hundreds of MDC supporters were injured when youths loyal to President Robert Mugabe stormed the venue of a political rally and beat up people gathered for the meeting, the party said on Sunday | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Anti-riot police yesterday raided the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) offices in central Harare, firing a volley of tear gas into the building and at pedestrians | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Global diamond regulator Kimberley Process (KP) has unanimously agreed to allow Zimbabwe to export diamonds from the controversial Marange fields | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has threatened to seize Swiss property in Zimbabwe after Berne refused visas to members of his delegation to travel to a UN summit in Geneva | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s constitutional committee said on Thursday it has finished compiling a report of views and ideas Zimbabweans want included in a new constitution, but remained mum on when exactly it expects to begin | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s economic empowerment programme should seek to attract investment and grow more wealth to benefit ordinary citizens rather than powerful elites, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Wednesday | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | Johannesburg -- South African finance minister Pravin Gordhan on Tuesday said calls to nationalise mines were hurting investor confidence in the key sector that he also said has under performed | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said rejecting a government draft constitution 11 years ago was a blunder that condemned Zimbabwe to a decade of political chaos | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – South African police were on Friday monitoring the situation at Itireleng informal settlement near Laudium, west of Pretoria, after an outbreak of xenophobic violence there | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE -- State-run newspaper conglomerate, Zimpapers, will today make an oral presentation to the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) as part of an application for a broadcasting licence | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe needs more than US$200 million to fund a constitutional referendum and elections expected next year, the country’s elections commission has said | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG -- Zimbabwe's indigenisation targets for the mining companies are too high and change in ownership into the hands of majority blacks will likely take years, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said yesterday | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) chief General Constantine Chiwenga says the army will not act against two senior commanders accused of divulging sensitive information to United States diplomats | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | SELOUS – Impala Platinum (Implats) yesterday said it had ceded 10 percent shareholding in Zimplats as pressure mounts on foreign firms to comply with a government empowerment drive but President Robert Mugabe said his administration did not want to seize foreign-owned mines | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – South Africa yesterday deported 261 undocumented immigrants from Zimbabwe, days after announcing it was ending a two-year moratorium on deportations of illegal immigrants from its northern neighbour | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has hinted that his ZANU-PF party could launch an investigation into damaging confidential documents released by whistleblower website Wikileaks showing that some of his closest allies | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams arrived in Harare on Sunday, in what has been billed as a pastoral visit to show solidarity with Zimbabwe’s Anglican church under siege from a renegade bishop | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s unity government should appoint a new neutral police leadership and consider establishing a constitutional court and an independent public prosecutor’s office | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – President Robert Mugabe said yesterday that he wanted elections held next year to end an uneasy coalition with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai but that he had no control of processes that would lead to the new elections | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Tendai Biti yesterday projected that economic growth would slow to between 7.8 – 9 percent while inflation would remain in single digits but politics was dragging full economic recovery | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Next week’s visit to Zimbabwe by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is meant to show solidarity with the southern African nation’s persecuted Anglicans, the local church said | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | KADOMA -- Zimbabwe’s government should give title to black villagers resettled on former white commercial farms newly to pave way for banks to lend to the new farmers against their properties | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HAMBURG – A leading international media rights watch dog has called on Zimbabwe’s coalition government to scrap tough press laws that continue to hinder journalists from carrying out their work | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Foreign mining companies in impoverished Zimbabwe have largely complied with today’s deadline to submit plans on how they would transfer majority shares to black investors | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Discord within Zimbabwe’s unity government over when to hold new elections and how to carry out black economic empowerment has become a major worry to investors | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwean authorities said on Tuesday they would soon probe foreign firms to find out those refusing to comply with an economic empowerment law requiring them to transfer majority stakes to local blacks | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | GWERU – Four ZANU-PF activists including the son of a top party leader were on Monday sentenced to a total of 72 years in prison for the murder of an opposition supporter two years ago | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwe will today decide what action to take against several foreign-owned companies that missed a deadline to submit proposals of how they plan to transfer majority stake to local blacks | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | MUREWA – Zimbabweans in the rural areas want soldiers to be removed from the countryside during elections, fearing that they could be intimidated into voting for President Robert Mugabe | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG -- Zimbabwe’s largest insurer and one of its biggest investors, Old Mutual, said on Wednesday that it had reached agreement with the government over its plans to transfer shares to local blacks | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party says it is ready to resume dialogue with European Union (EU) countries but said Brussels must first lift sanctions against its top leaders | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Justice Minister Patrick Chinamsa has amended the Human Rights Commission Bill to empower the ZHRC to defend the rights of all | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | In a country that needs foreign capital not to grow but to survive, Zimbabwe’s indigenisation law defies understanding | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – A joint South African government and European Union summit at the weekend urged Zimbabwe’s power-sharing government to quicken reforms | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s government said yesterday it would not cancel licences for mining companies which are under pressure to surrender majority shares to black investors | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – The Zimbabwean government and the country’s largest foreign investor, Zimplats, said on Tuesday they had reached an agreement giving the mining firm until November | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party says two of its members are in hospital in Harare after they were attacked by suspected supporters of President Robert Mugabe | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest foreign investor, Zimplats, has assured shareholders that its operating licence has not been canceled after differences emerged with government | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono was eyeing the finance minister position and a seat on Zanu (PF)’s powerful Politburo in 2008 but feared reprisals from hawks in the faction-ridden part | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Victims of political violence in Zimbabwe are deeply embittered by the government’s failure to deal with perpetrators | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday demanded foreign companies fully cooperate with his drive to force foreign-owned mining companies to sell at least 51 percent shares to blacks but then sought to reassure investors | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – The world’s second largest platinum producer Impala Platinum Holdings (Implats) and major shareholder in Zimbabwe Platinum Mines (Zimplats) said yesterday it was still in talks with the government over its plans to transfer majoroty shares to blacks | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – Botswana three years ago sought weapons from the United States (US) in readiness for war with Zimbabwe, its northern neighbour with whom it has had frosty relations for the past decade | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – The state owned Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) has turned down pleas to reduce a 31 percent tariff hike consumers say is too steep and unjustified given shoddy service | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Economic Planning Minister yesterday said the country’s indigenisation and economic empowerment law requiring foreign-owned mining firms to surrender at least 51 percent of their shares to blacks was flexible | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG -- President Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF party has been accused of running a parallel fiscus through which diamond revenues are being fleeced for the benefit of the well connected | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | CAPE TOWN -- Black South Africans have resold farms bought for them by the government to further slow down a land redistribution programme that was already terribly behind schedule because of | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – The World Bank said yesterday Zimbabwe needed $13 billion to rebuild its collapsing energy sector | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Human Rights Watch says security guards from private firms working at Marange diamond field have joined police in shooting, beating up and setting dogs on illegal miners | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe has kicked out Libya’s ambassador and embassy staff for defecting to the National Transitional Council, which has ousted longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe should enact a law to criminalise political violence associated with elections and reform the security sector to ensure service chiefs remain impartial as part of efforts to | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – President Robert Mugabe at the weekend said Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector was on the rebound after a decade of decline blamed on the veteran leader’s chaotic | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwe’s controversial drive to force foreign-owned firms to sell controlling stake to local blacks will derail efforts to woo investors says Impala | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – The Harare Anglican Church diocese has appealed against a Supreme Court ruling granting ex-communicated bishop Nolbert Kunonga temporary custody of diocesan property pending final ruling in a dispute over ownership of the property | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | While the controversy over whether Gen Solomon Mujuru’s death in a fire at his home last week was accidental or foul play rages on, Zimbabwe’s political parties are reassessing their strategies now that the Zanu-PF kingmaker has gone | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE - The Libyan embassy in Zimbabwe replaced the government’s flag with the tricolor of the rebels fighting to oust long time ruler, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s indiginisation minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, on Tuesday suspended cancellation of Canadian-owned Blanket Mine’s operating licence after the owners agreed to resubmit a new plan to transfer control | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – A group of asylum seekers have applied to the Pretoria High Court for an order directing the government to provide adequate refugee reception offices across South Africa | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – Hunger and chronic malnutrition are on the rise in Zimbabwe, the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | The attack on civil society across Africa ‘is now increasingly becoming bolder, broader and more dangerous. And it is going beyond governments to include regional bodies such as SADC,’ warns Paul Okumu, in a call for all CSOs both in the North and South to ‘strengthen and support the solidarity effort as a matter of urgency’ | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | LUANDA – A summit of southern African leaders that ended here on Thursday avoided confronting President Robert Mugabe on political reforms needed to stabilise Zimbabwe and instead | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | LUANDA – A Southern African summit opened in Angola yesterday but there was little indication leaders would tackle the political situation in Zimbabwe and at least three other countries in the region | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – President Robert Mugabe described as a horrific tragedy the death of former army general Solomon Mujuru, a former ally who played a key role in his rise to power | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – One of Zimbabwe’s most powerful political figures Solomon Mujuru died last night in a fire at his farm at Beatrice, about 50 km south of Harare, a development most likely to trigger major realignment of the troubled country’s politics | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG -- Reporters Without Boarders has urged southern African leaders to tackle media repression in Zimbabwe it said was on the rise with 11 cases of intimidation and arbitrary arrests of journalists | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwean state security minister Sydney Sekeramai confirmed the death of powerful former army general Solomon Mujuru as details surrounding his suspicious death | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Nearly half of the US$505 million Zimbabwe received from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2009 remains with the global lender for safe keeping as national reserves, the Ministry of Finance said on Monday | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s political rivals will attend the Southern African Development Community (SADC) next week ever more divided over a roadmap to fresh elections but the regional bloc is unlikely to sanction | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – Southern African leaders must enforce their own protocols and agreements on human rights and democracy under threat in five countries where | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwean bank robber Bongani Moyo escaped from a Pretoria court on Wednesday, the second time the notorious criminal who is allegedly linked to more than 30 bank robberies here has escaped | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe yesterday chided his harshest critics the United States and Britain saying they should focus their energies on the debt crisis and civil riots troubling the two countries respectively instead of meddling in his country | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – International rights group Amnesty International has said Zimbabwe should establish a commission of enquiry into systematic human rights violations by security forces in the last decade and expel those found guilty | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday said the government would hit back at Western countries that have imposed sanctions on his ZANU-PF inner circle by favouring investment from friendly countries and rejected demands to reform the security sector | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – More than 800 000 asylum seekers from Zimbabwe snubbed South Africa’s offer for work and study permits, local media has reported | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) has shutdown the bourse’ website after it was hacked into by unknown people, chief executive officer Emmanuel Munyukwi said on Friday | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | KWEKWE – India's conglomerate Essar Group plans to spend up to $4 billion dollars in developing an iron ore processing plant in Zimbabwe within five years, Industry and Commerce Minister Welshman Ncube said yesterday | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe requires an additional $73 million in humanitarian aid this year due to increased food needs for the most vulnerable groups in the country even after the government said it expects a better harvest, according to United Nations agencies | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – UN humanitarian coordinator for Zimbabwe Alain Noudéhou and the country’s ruling coalition will today launch a revised consolidated appeal (CAP) for aid for the African nation still struggling to shake off the effects of a decade of recession and political strife | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | KWEKWE – The armed forces have emerged as the biggest obstacle to democratic reforms in Zimbabwe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Sunday, as he made fresh calls for restructuring of the security forces | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | VICTORIA FALLS -- Zimbabwe will be able to hold new elections only next year or in 2013 after implementation of reforms to ensure the polls are truly free and fair, top political and government figures said on Thursday | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – A planned Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission should be fully independent and mandated to investigate rights abuses dating back to the violent 2008 presidential election run-off, local rights groups have said | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Tendai Biti maintained the 2011 GDP growth forecast at 9.3 percent but warned the economy would run up a $700 million deficit after controversial wage increases for civil servants this month | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE -- Finance Minister Tendai Biti will today present a mid-term budget statement to Parliament, weeks after telling the House that the government was facing a US$500-million deficit | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwean workers at Chinese cotton firm Sino-Zimbabwe Cotton Holdings at the weekend demanded the expulsion of Chinese nationals running businesses in the country after a march to protest failure by the company to pay their wages | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE -- The Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTATS) will conduct a pilot census project next month to test the country’s preparedness ahead of next year’s population count, it said on Monday | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | PRETORIA – More than 130 000 Zimbabweans have been issued permits to stay in South Africa, Pretoria said on Thursday, adding it hoped to wrap up a special project to document illegal Zimbabwean immigrants next month | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE -- The Zimbabwe government has thrown out all 175 indigenisation proposals it received from mining companies and promised to boot out any firms that do not meet the September 31 deadline to transfer | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG –South African mediators are expected in Harare today to gauge progress by Zimbabwe’s coalition partners towards crafting a roadmap to new elections whose date is yet to be named | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party said the acquittal on Monday of one of its top leaders vindicates its long-standing claim that the country’s police and prosecution service were using trumped up charges to arrest and harass the party’s officials | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE -- Zimbabwe’s former opposition MDC parties have stepped up calls for restructuring of the country’s security forces, in a fresh row with President Robert Mugabe over | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE -- Zimbabwe's annual inflation for June quickened to 2.9 percent in June from 2.5 percent the previous month, the Zimbabwe National Statistical Agency (ZIMSTATS) announced | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s trade deficit with South Africa increased more than seven times over the past four years to hit 13,6 billion rands (about US$2 billion) last year, according to a report produced by the Ministry of Economic Planning in Harare | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Finance Minister Tendai Biti on Wednesday ruled out a supplementary budget this year, while forecasting a budget deficit of $500 million this year, to highlight a severe cash shortage that has hobbled | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe Finance Minister Tendai Biti on Tuesday launched a court bid to block the police from accessing his mobile phone records, as the law enforcement agency insisted | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa is today expected to present to Parliament a Bill seeking to enable the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) to defend human rights in a country with a long history of | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – Retired soldiers are harassing villagers in rural Buhera West constituency and threatening them with unspecified but severe punishment for backing Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s unstable coalition government slithered towards dysfunction amid deepening discord and conflict within its ranks over the past six months, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Thursday | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Political violence is on the rise in five of Zimbabwe’s ten provinces as tensions rise with ZANU-PF stepping up campaigns in a bid to press for fresh general elections | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | JOHANNESURG – South Africa’s official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party has called on President Jacob Zuma to urgently clarify his government's position on land reform following reports of farm invasions in the country’s Eastern Cape province | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwean rights groups have said the international community should apply more pressure to Harare to adopt a clear roadmap to new elections while demanding the demilitarisation of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – More than 130 000 Zimbabweans have been issued permits to stay in South Africa, Pretoria said on Thursday while warning it would begin this month deporting any undocumented immigrants | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s government has admitted failure in its bid to transfer 30 percent of arable land to blacks by 2014, with land reform minister Gugile Nkwinti describing the ambitious target as impossible | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Police on Wednesday arrested the editor of The Standard newspaper, Nevanji Madanhire and reporter Patience Nyangove over a story carried in the weekly paper last Sunday, in yet another example of how journalism remains a risky occupation in Zimbabwe | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s High Court on Tuesday acquitted energy minister and a top official of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party, Elton Mangoma, of charges of abuse of power and corruption for lack of evidence | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s continued failure to investigate past torture crimes such as during the Gukurahundi era and run up to the 2008 violent elections could fuel a repeat of violence and torture in future elections | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Nearly 200 foreign mining firms have submitted plans to Zimbabwe’s indigenisation ministry on how they intend to dispose majority stake in their local units to blacks, the government said on Monday | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | OPINION: -The excitement over the resolutions of the SADC Troika meeting in Livingstone, Zambia, at the end of March 2011, was largely focused on the stronger stance taken by the organ over the abuses of the Mugabe regime | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE -- A high court judge ordered the release of Jameson Timba, a key ally of Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai two days after he had been arrested for calling President Robert Mugabe a liar | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – The rift between Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and defence forces chiefs is widening and degenerating into a public spat in what analysts say raises political tensions and confirms fears that the military | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s public workers on Wednesday began an indefinite strike to press the cash-strapped coalition government of President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to more than double wages | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – A special parliamentary committee on the media has called for a review of the country’s broadcasting laws, while criticising the state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC)’s monopoly of the airwaves as | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – FIFA head of security Chris Eaton is expected in Harare next week to help bring to a close a probe into match-fixing involving Zimbabwe’s national team, soccer authorities in the African nation said on Wednesday | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – A fresh row over how to interpret the opinions of citizens on a proposed new constitution has stalled once more Zimbabwe’s constitutional reforms, the ZANU (PF) party of President Robert Mugabe said on Monday | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – A human rights group has urged South Africa’s ruling ANC party to act “decisively” against members linked to violence against foreign immigrants | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabweans could go to polls in eight months’ time to choose a new government to replace the troubled coalition of President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a top official has said | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Southern African leaders may have last weekend spoken with the proverbial one voice to urge Zimbabwe’s political rivals to quicken democratic reforms but their efforts could still come to nought as | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE –President Robert Mugabe’s supporters on Wednesday stormed Finance Minister Tendai Biti’s offices demanding that he signs a petition calling for lifting of Western sanctions against the veteran leader | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – South Africa must seize white-owned farmland without paying compensation, ruling ANC party youth leader Julius Malema has said | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE -- An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission arrives in Zimbabwe today for consultations with Harare authorities as part of ongoing efforts by the world lender to help the country revive its economy after a decade of collapse | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwe’s political situation is increasingly turning volatile amid talk of elections to choose a new government to replace the ruling coalition that has kept the country relatively stable over | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – Southern Africa leaders late on Sunday called on Zimbabwe to speed up democratic reforms but showed little indication they were prepared to adopt tougher measures against President Robert Mugabe blamed of blocking political change | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that Zimbabwe’s economy will grow 5.5 percent this year, a decline from the 8 percent last year as the country’s recovery remains fragile | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE -- Zimbabwe on Thursday accorded national hero status to a former ally of President Robert Mugabe who later turned great foe of the veteran leader after resisting his attempts to impose one party rule in the country | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Regional leaders will this week push Zimbabwe’s political rivals to adopt an election roadmap guaranteeing free and fair elections but will likely restrain President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai from hurrying to hold | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – India’s Essar expects to conclude its investment in the mothballed Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (ZISCO) by the end of this month after the conglomerate said in March it would invest at least $750 million in the state-owned company | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | President Robert Mugabe’s statement on the death of his former friend, close political ally and in later years great adversary, Edgar Tekere: | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE -- Zimbabwe's second-largest supermarket, OK Zimbabwe, on Tuesday announced a 153 percent surge in earnings through the year to March 2011, as the retailer benefited from an economy that has started | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE -- Unknown assailants petrol bombed the house of Zimbabwean Finance Minister Tendai Biti in the wee hours of Sunday morning, but no one was hurt | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Regional powerhouse South Africa is determined to prevent another sham election in neighbouring Zimbabwe as happened three years ago, outgoing German ambassador to Zimbabwe Albrecht Conze said | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – A key Indian rough diamond buyer has urged New Delhi to accept imports of stones from Zimbabwe’s Marange mines following reports South Africa has authorised dealers to take stones from the controversial mines | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU (PF) party has shifted into election mode, holding vote mobilisation rallies across the country, while re-establishing campaign bases | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe has four times more centenarians than Britain despite the European nation enjoying a far longer life expectancy than its former colony, according to a new report | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – The Securities Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe (SECZ) has warned investors handle with caution the shares of leading hotel owner Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) and insurance giant Afre Corporation because of governance issues | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | Time is running out for Robert Mugabe. The combination of advancing years and poor health are taking their toll on the 87-year-old despot | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – One of Zimbabwe’s leading investment firms, Tetrad, has warned against calls by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono for the reintroduction of a Zimbabwe dollar pegged on gold | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | VICTORIA FALLS – Zimbabwe’s gold output could hit 20 tonnes in the short to medium term if the sector gets funding and electricity supplies improve, outgoing Chamber of Mines president Victor Gapare said yesterday | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – One of Zimbabwe’s top gold miners Rio Zim says foreign investors withdrew an offer to invest in the firm because of concerns over President Robert Mugabe’s controversial plan to transfer control of the mining sector to local blacks | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwe should ensure a proposed new constitution guarantees and protects the basic rights and freedoms of citizens including the freedoms of expression and the media, a local media rights group has said | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s High Court on Tuesday ordered the release of six men accused of plotting to topple President Robert Mugabe and replace him with his ally and the country’s defence minister Emerson Mnangagwa | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG -- President Robert Mugabe’s advanced age and his failure to groom a successor has become the biggest threat to Zimbabwe’s future stability and its transition to democracy | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s embattled white farmers says they are devastated at the dissolution of a regional court they had seen as their last hope for protection against President Robert Mugabe’s relentless land reforms | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE -- The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) will today hand over information technology equipment worth over US$25,000 to the Zimbabwe National Statistical Agency (ZIMSTAT) | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – There has been a sharp increase in arson attacks against supporters of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party since | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwe’s civil society groups have called for the demilitarisation of the country’s electoral institutions and processes, while also suggesting polls should | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG -- President Jacob Zuma’s office has failed to back with evidence claims that it could not release a report on neighbouring Zimbabwe’s violence marred presidential election in 2002 | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – The trial of a top ally of Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and the country’s energy minister, Elton Mangoma, on charges of corruption resumes tomorrow with the court expected to rule on a bid by | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – South Africa’s ANC party says Zimbabwe’s ruling parties are concerned that the unresolved question of President Robert Mugabe’s succession could endanger | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE -- Zimbabwe’s mining firms have called on Parliament to intervene to block a government economic empowerment drive that they say has morphed into a programme to nationalise foreign owned mines rather than an exercise to empower locals | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Delta Corporation yesterday announced a surge in earnings and after tax profit as the company benefited from rising demand for lagers and beverages during the year to March 2011 | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party will not accept South African officials meeting Zimbabwe’s service chiefs to discuss security reforms, the party’s top politburo committee said on Wednesday, while insisting elections will take place this year | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s constitutional reforms hit a fresh snag after the country’s three ruling parties yesterday failed to agree on how to analyse public submissions to a special committee tasked to draft the new charter | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – The world’s top platinum producers Angloplat and Implats and Kazhakistan mining group ENRC have submitted plans to Zimbabwe’s indigenisation ministry on how they intend to meet a six-month deadline to | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe has adopted a two-pronged approach to tackling the country’s foreign debt that will see the African country use its rich natural resources while also embracing the HIPC debt relief initiative | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE -- Zimbabwe's demand for electricity is expected to increase as the economy grows, but availability of funding to expand generation capacity is dependent on the outcome of the country's future elections | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE -- Foreign owned mines have until Monday to submit indigenisation proposals to government, as trading on the local bourse has taken a battering over the past month on the back of the controversial plan | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Gold output surged at Freda Rebecca to 8,577 ounces during the first quarter of the year, surpassing the mine’s target after improved mine maintenance and power supplies, parent company Mwana Africa said yesterday | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Four of Zimbabwe’s 10 provinces face food shortages this year with poor households in the affected areas expected to harvest food enough to last only about two months | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is among Africa’s seven worst press freedom predators who regularly harass and persecute journalists | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | BULAWAYO – Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai said yesterday he was in no doubt that his party would capture power from long serving President Robert Mugabe in the next election in a speech meant to energise supporters | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | BULAWAYO – Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party is due to appoint a new leadership today to re-energise the former opposition ahead of a fresh election battle against President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party expected next year | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | BULAWAYO – Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has ruled out holding elections this year, saying polls can only take place in 12 months time and after democratic reforms | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Personal security in Zimbabwe can no longer be guaranteed as lawlessness continues in the troubled southern African state, rights group Zimbabwe Peace Project has said, highlighting the urgent need for political reforms | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest platinum miner Zimplats said yesterday politicians and business leaders were jockeying to get a slice of its shares under the government’s controversial indigenisation drive | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) must investigate torture and other human rights abuses in Zimbabwe and Swaziland, a leading non-governmental organisation has said | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe police have banned public marches to commemorate Workers’ Day next Sunday, apparently scared anti-President Robert Mugabe elements could hijack the processions | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE -- The Zimbabwean government has finished drafting new mining regulations that among other things seek to compel both foreign and local mining houses to fund development projects in the local communities where they operate | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Negotiators from Zimbabwe’s three ruling parties said on Thursday they have agreed on a roadmap to ensure the next polls are free and fair but remain divided on the role of the security forces in elections | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE -- Zimbabwe will resist attempts to appoint British national Simon Gilberts as the Kimberley Process (KP)’s new monitor for the country’s controversial Marange diamond mines, Mines Minister Obert Mpofu said on Wednesday | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest mobile phone operator has invested US$270 million in network infrastructure over the past year, bringing total investment over the previous two years to more than $400 million, it reported on Wednesday | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE -- The Zimbabwean government has from today banned the export of chrome ore in a move meant to boost local refinery production, the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development said yesterday | | | | Full Story | | | |