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HARARE – A magistrate’s court on Wednesday postponed to the month end the trial of a ZANU PF member and businessman Temba Mliswa who is accused of defrauding a British investor resident in Zimbabwe |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector is emerging from the intensive care after a decade of decline blamed on President Robert Mugabe’s often violent seizures, but its full recovery remains fragile and will depend on |
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HARARE – Municipal authorities on Tuesday shutdown a building housing the Zimbabwean Stock Exchange (ZSE), leaving brokers and investors unsure whether the bourse will open for business today |
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HARARE -- The Zimbabwe government and the African Import and Export Bank (Afreximbank) on Monday launched a US$100 million revolving facility to help local industry |
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HARARE – The licencing of private newspapers for the first time in seven years has raised hope of media plurality and opening up of democratic space in Zimbabwe but analysts warned that the freedom of press and expression remained under threat |
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HARARE -- Zimbabwe Judge President George Chiweshe on Monday postponed to next month an application by two former opposition activists for more than US$2 million in compensation for their illegal abduction |
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HARARE – Prominent Zimbabwean human rights defender Jestina Mukoko wants the High Court to unmask law enforcement agents behind her sensational abduction and torture in 2008 |
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IT is said that the dead do not write their epitaph but their actions do. Gibson Jama Sibanda, throughout his life, through his actions penned his own epitaph writes Welshman Ncube |
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HARARE - Zimbabwe's Electoral Commission will not be able to hold elections next year as announced by President Robert Mugabe and his rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai |
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HARARE -- President Robert Mugabe yesterday questioned whether Zimbabwe has produced the quality of farmers needed to restore the country’s status as a bread basket |
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HARARE -- The number of Zimbabweans seeking political asylum in the UK last year sharply dropped to slightly more than 400 people down from more than 1500 in 2008 |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe Platinum Holdings (Zimplats), the country’s largest producer of platinum swung back to profit this year after production of platinum metal group nearly doubled |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s civic society pressure group, Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition said yesterday the SADC should monitor the country’s next vote |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe has re-opened bidding for stake in its Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (ZISCO), but said the world’s largest steelmaker ArcelorMittal should not bother reapplying |
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HARARE – President Robert Mugabe turned down a request to declare National Healing Minister Gibson Sibanda a national hero, unmasking the deep rifts that still exist between partners in Zimbabwe’s shaky coalition |
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HARARE -- The government has received US$30 million from Canadile and Mbada diamonds, the two firms currently operating in Marange fields (with correction to show money is from diamond auction)
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HARARE -- Zimbabwe annual inflation slowed down to 4.1 percent in July from 5.3 percent in June, a drop officials on Monday attributed to falling prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages |
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HARARE – The European Union (EU) is yet to respond to overtures from Zimbabwe more than a month ago to restore full relations |
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BULAWAYO – The deputy leader of one of Zimbabwe’s three governing parties, Gibson Sibanda, has died. He was 66 |
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HARARE – A group of Zimbabwean election monitors says the country’s electoral authorities should do away with postal votes for members of the police force and instead introduce a new “special voting” system |
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HARARE -- Rwanda has appealed for United Nations intervention in its simmering diplomatic row with Zimbabwe as the two countries tussle over the release of a fugitive believed to be one of |
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NGEZI – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday called on investors to acknowledge work done by his unity government with President Robert Mugabe to stabilise the economy |
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HARARE – Regional leaders this week avoided confronting Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to honour terms of a 2008 political agreement, and instead set a deadline for its full implementation |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe on Thursday named committees dominated by top allies of President Robert Mugabe that will help the government set percentages of shareholding foreign-owned companies in different sectors of the economy must transfer to locals |
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HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party has called for caution on fresh elections in Zimbabwe, where the last vote two years ago ended in a stalemate amid violence that killed at least 200 |
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HARARE -- The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal has not been suspended and will continue to hear cases already before it while its mandate |
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HARARE -- Indian buyers snapped up about 83 percent of diamonds from Zimbabwe’s controversial Marange mines that were auctioned in Harare last week |
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HARARE -- The size of Zimbabwe’s economy is probably double the figures provided by authorities in Harare and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a leading asset management firm has said |
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BULAWAYO -- A senior police officer in Zimbabwe’s second city Bulawayo has been sentenced to five months in jail or a fine of US$500 for fatally shooting a 25-year old man during New Year’s Day celebrations three years ago |
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HARARE – Southern African leaders on Tuesday called on Zimbabwe’s three ruling parties to conclude implementation of their power-sharing deal but did not set a deadline when |
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WINDHOEK – The SADC special organ on defence and security has recommended fresh elections next year to end Zimbabwe’s drawn-out political crisis, ZimOnline was told last night |
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HARARE -- US fast food giant McDonald's has said it will “take steps” to open its popular restaurants in Zimbabwe, more than a decade after it initially |
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HARARE – President Jacob Zuma is hoping Zimbabwe’s three governing parties will have resolved all outstanding differences holding back their coalition by year-end |
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HARARE –An umbrella body of human rights groups has called on Zimbabwe’s ruling parties to publicly denounce the continuing lawlessness and violence in the key farming sector and push for |
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HARARE -- President Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF on Friday said it expects next week’s summit of southern African leaders not to spend too much time discussing Zimbabwe because |
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HARARE – An international network of diamond buyers and suppliers on Thursday advised its members to boycott diamonds from Zimbabwe’s Marange fields |
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JOHANNESBURG – South African President Jacob Zuma will regional leaders that Zimbabwe is on “the correct path” under the shaky coalition government of President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai |
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HARARE --Zimbabwe’s constitutional reforms that were grounded this week because of cash shortages are back on track after the government agreed to pay for fuel supplies |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe on Wednesday auctioned 900 000 carats of diamonds after the Kimberley Process authorised the sale of the gemstones from the country’s controversial Marange diamond mines |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s troubled constitutional reforms have ground to a halt after running out of cash, a senior official confirmed last night |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest telecoms firm, Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, has secured a $60 million loan from Swedish export credit agency EKN |
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HARARE – President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday called on his staunchest allies in the armed forces to remain loyal despite hardships imposed by an economic recession |
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HARARE – President Robert Mugabe could be paving the way for allies and himself to avoid future punishment for past political violence crimes that have blighted the country, after the veteran leader said |
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HARARE – More than 1.6 million people will need food aid in Zimbabwe in the 2010/11 season despite the recovering of the turbulent agriculture sector, according to a report by United Nations agencies |
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HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday urged Zimbabweans to shun political violence and divisions that have fanned tensions in the country for the last decade |
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HARARE – International diamond watchdog Kimberley Process will this week certify Zimbabwe’s controversial diamonds from Marange, raising hopes of a huge inflow of desperately needed foreign currency |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s political situation is fast deteriorating amid warnings by analysts that any fresh elections under current conditions could plunge the country into unprecedented violence worse than |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe mobile phone operator Net One, which has been linked to acquisition by MTN South Africa and other foreign suitors, has said it expects to wind up negotiations before the end of the year |
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HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC-T has called on Zimbabweans should spare a thought for “real change” heroes who died fighting dictatorship and oppression since 1980 |
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HARARE – Embattled ZANU PF politician and businessman Temba Mliswa was on Friday freed on US$1000 bail after a month in custody over charges of fraud and stealing from white farmers |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe will next Wednesday officially launch the sale of its diamond stocks, Mines Minister Obert Mpofu announced on Friday |
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HARARE – A widely reported plane accident at Harare International Airport earlier today turned out to be nothing but a mock exercise to test emergency services’ preparedness |
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PRETORIA – The South African government on Thursday hailed law enforcement agencies for curbing violence against African immigrants |
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HARARE – South Africa President Jacob Zuma is pushing to have Zimbabwe’s squabbling political leaders reach agreement on three outstanding issues dividing their coalition government |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe has sold more than 100 million kilogrammes of tobacco since February or more than double the quantity sold over the same period last year, in yet another sign of recovery in the farm sector |
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HARARE – At Mavise village, 170 km south of Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, Tambudzia Zinyere recalls how one day, two years ago, the three men approached her homestead |
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HARARE –President Jacob Zuma’s envoy Marc Maharaj arrived in Zimbabwe on Tuesday for the second time in as many weeks as the South African leader steps up his mediation efforts ahead of |
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HARARE – The United States (US), Germany and European Union (EU) ambassadors on Tuesday rejected attempts by Zimbabwe to reprimand them for “disrespecting” President Robert Mugabe |
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HARARE -- The United Nations on Tuesday launched a US$478 million appeal for humanitarian assistance for Zimbabwe, saying the country faces underlying political and economic challenges |
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HARARE – The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries on Tuesday called on the central bank to reimburse millions of dollars in hard cash garnished from private companies |
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HARARE – United Nations and Zimbabwe government officials will today launch a revised 500 million appeal for humanitarian aid to cater for the remainder of the year, officials said |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s biggest platinum producer, Zimplats Holdings, on Monday reported a five percent increase in platinum ore mined in the second quarter of 2010 but said revenues declined over the same period |
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HARARE – A defiant President Robert Mugabe on Sunday told Western nations to go to “hell”, accusing them of wanting to dictate Zimbabwe’s politics and rob the country of its resources |
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HARARE – More than 1.3 million people in Zimbabwe’s rural areas will require food assistance during the peak hunger season in early 2011 |
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HARARE – Fresh elections to choose a new government to replace Zimbabwe’s ruling coalition should take place only after all measures to ensure free and fair polls |
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HARARE -- Trade on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) has contracted 19 percent since December last year, while market capitalisation shrunk to US$3.19 billion in June from |
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HARARE – Economic inducements and threats of physical harm have kept Zimbabwe’s judiciary beholden to President Robert Mugabe with the new coalition government doing nothing to re-establish the integrity of the compromised bench |
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HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party on Thursday conferred national heroine status on his sister, Sabina, who died earlier in the day |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s main labour union on Thursday said political meddling has delayed the naming of a foreign investor needed to help resuscitate the state controlled Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company |
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HARARE - Zimbabwe is experiencing a recovery in its troubled agriculture sector, a decade after President Robert Mugabe started a chaotic and often violent land seizure drive |
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HARARE – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Wednesday that it was working with local communities in Zimbabwe to combat HIV/AIDS in the southern African country |
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HARARE – A top ally of Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is convinced that politics is driving a case of treason against him that has dragged on for months, |
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HARARE -- President Robert Mugabe’s younger sister, Sabina, has died. She was 75 years old |
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HARARE -- South Africa has not supplied Zimbabwe with banknotes or coins since Harare adopted last year the use of multiple currencies including the rand currency of its southern neighbour |
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HARARE -- President Barack Obama will next month host three Zimbabwean civil society leaders under the his young African leaders forum officially touted as a platform to help improve America’s understanding of the ongoing transformation of African societies |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe remains in a state of “chronic vulnerability” and its humanitarian crisis could worsen despite formation of a unity government 16 months ago to tackle the country’s long running socio-economic crisis |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s highest court will tomorrow hear an appeal by the state against acquittal three months ago of a top ally of the country’s Prime Minister |
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The notion that, to qualify as people-driven, the current constitution making process must exclude politicians and be spearheaded by civil society is as malevolent as it is misleading |
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HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has said it needs at least a year to clean up the existing voters’ roll, adding to the intrigue surrounding the holding of the country’s next general elections |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe health authorities on Friday announced a programme to vaccinate school children, health workers and chronically ill patients against the Influenza A (H1N1) virus |
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HARARE – The British government has pledged to continue supporting reforms in Zimbabwe, saying the troubled southern African country's future remains overshadowed by rule of law abuses and economic difficulties |
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HARARE -- Zimbabwe's ambassador to Russia, Phelekezela Mphoko, has been named as the country's top diplomat to South Africa replacing, Simon Khaya Moyo |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe business leaders on Thursday urged President Robert Mugabe to conclude his controversial land reforms |
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HARARE – Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Zimbabwe totaled US$60 million in 2009, an increase of $8 million from the $52 million recorded last year |
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JOHANNESBURG -- Zambia's grain agency said on Wednesday that it has started releasing surplus maize to local traders for export to needy countries among them Zimbabwe |
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HARARE – An AIDS advocacy group on Wednesday said that it will next month hand over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) evidence of politically motivated rape |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s three governing political parties met in Harare on Wednesday to discuss ways to end political violence and speed up a progamme to promote reconciliation and national healing |
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HARARE – White-ruled Rhodesia's last army commander, Rtd General Peter Walls died on Wednesday in George, South Africa |
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HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF has said Zimbabwe should hold new elections next year |
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HARARE – Zimbabwean Finance Minister Tendai Biti will lead a joint government and business delegation to neighbouring Botswana to discuss the modalities of a 500-million pula (aboutUS$70 million) credit facility availed by Gaborone |
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HARARE – A group of Zimbabwean fishermen have written to President Robert Mugabe to intervene to stop soldiers from beating them and stealing their fish, in a bizarre case that highlights |
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HARARE -- The top leaders of Zimbabwe’s three ruling parties will tomorrow meet to discuss ways to end political violence and how to quicken national healing and reconciliation |
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HARARE – South Africa’s main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party has called on southern African leaders to act against President Robert Mugabe for his refusal to |
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HARARE – A Zimbabwean court on Monday postponed to next week the trial of homosexual worker Ellen Chademana after a police investigator failed to pitch up at court |
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JOHANNESBURG – A mob of South Africans attacked and injured five foreign immigrants at an informal settlement outside Johannesburg, stocking up fresh fears of a wave of anti-foreigner violence in Africa’s most prosperous country |
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HARARE -- President Robert Mugabe and senior army officers implicated in atrocities will not be prosecuted if they voluntarily vacate office to make way for new blood committed to serving the interests of the country |
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HARARE – The UN has revised Zimbabwe’s humanitarian appeal for 2010 by more than 20 percent, citing underlying vulnerabilities necessitating urgent support for the country’s health, food aid and agricultural sectors |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s labour movement on Friday accused the country’s ruling coalition of cruelty towards struggling workers after the administration ignored calls to more than double the amount of non-taxable pay |
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HARARE – Pressure groups have described the proposed Media Practitioners’ Bill as an attempt to hoodwink the public about the Zimbabwe government’s commitment to changing the country’s repressive press laws |
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JOHANNESBURG – A meeting of the Kimberley Process (KP) in St Petersburg, Russia on Thursday agreed to allow Zimbabwe to export diamonds from its controversial Marange field |
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JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s ruling ANC party on Thursday called on communities to name and shame those behind xenophobic attacks against foreigners |
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HARARE -- South African President Jacob Zuma briefly visited Zimbabwe on Thursday to see relatives but also called on President Robert Mugabe |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe's annual inflation slowed down to 5.3 percent in June from 6.1 percent the previous month, officials announced Thursday |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe will have to rely on an expected diamond windfall from the notorious Marange fields and may need to squeeze more revenue from a fragile economy to balance its budget as donors |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe cannot account for US$30 million earned from sales of its controversial Marange diamonds, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said on Wednesday |
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HARARE – The World Diamond Council (WDC) has welcomed the release on bail of NGO activist Farai Maguwu who was arrested by Zimbabwe authorities in early June following a meeting he held with the Kimberley Process (KP) monitor for Zimbabwe, Abbey Chikane |
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HARARE – A Harare magistrate on Wednesday remanded embattled ZANU PF politician and businessman Temba Mliswa in custody to the end of the month after turning down his application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court |
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HURUNGWE -- The last time 32-year old Shamiso Mbinga visited Chitindiva clinic Chundu area in Hurungwe district, more than 280 km north-west of Harare, she could hardly walk. Hers was an acute case of malaria infection |
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HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party will block any draft constitution that does not reflect the views and values of the party, a top official has said |
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HARARE – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday predicted his country’s economy to grow by 5.4 percent this year or more than double the 2.2 percent expansion predicted |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s political rivals in the fragile unity government have struck a rare chord on demanding that the country be allowed to sell its diamond stockpile from the controversial Marange fields |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s biggest labour movement has called on the government to slash income tax by 25 percentage points to help struggling workers and inspire confidence it is |
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HARARE -- International Diamond Manufacturers Association (IDMA) president Moti Ganz yesterday urged the industry to allow Zimbabwe to sell diamonds from its controversial Marange mines in line with recommendations |
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HARARE – Planned new voters’ rolls that list voters according to polling stations could worsen electoral violence by making it easier for perpetrators to identify |
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HARARE -- President Robert Mugabe will officially open Zimbabwe’s Parliament tomorrow, with the veteran leader expected to use the occasion to outline the agenda |
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HARARE -- More than a third of Zimbabwe’s children aged below five are malnourished, according to new data released by the government and the United Nations Food and Nutrition Council (FNC) on Friday |
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HARARE –Five NGO workers monitoring the constitutional outreach exercise were arrested by police in Midlands province, barely 48 hours after the Constitutional Parliamentary Committee (COPAC) leading |
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MARONDERA – The southern hemisphere winter can be biting at times, and last Friday was one of those times when temperatures drop to near European levels |
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HARARE -- Zimbabwe’s once vaunted public education sector remains in “catastrophic state” short of cash to revamp dilapidated schools or lure back experienced teaching staff |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe police have charged a ZANU PF politician with defrauding two white farmers of more than US$20 million worth of property including tractors, vehicles, cows and bulls in a case that gives a rare glimpse into how |
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HARARE – Botswana has placed its health and border personnel on high alert amid fears of an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in southern Zimbabwe |
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HARARE – ZANU PF provincial executive member and businessman Temba Mliswa is expected to appear in court today to answer to a charge of fraud allegedly committed five years ago, in what looks an increasingly dirty fight for wealth and resources between powerful members of President Robert Mugabe’s party |
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JOHANNESBURG – Scores of Zimbabwean and other immigrants in South Africa are making they way out of local communities amid mounting fears of an outbreak of xenophobic violence as the FIFA World Cup draws to a close
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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s constitutional reform commission has retracted calls for the arrest of NGO workers monitoring public consultations on the proposed new governance charter |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s constitutional reform commission has called for the arrest of civil society workers monitoring the reforms, accusing them of sowing confusion and spreading falsehoods |
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JOHANNESBURG – The European Union (EU) has said it appreciates relative progress by Zimbabwe’s unity government but called for more “concrete progress” by the Harare coalition in meeting long-delayed democratic and human rights reforms |
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HARARE – Reengagement talks between Zimbabwe and the European Union opened in Brussels on Friday but no major breakthrough was expected as ongoing farm invasions by President Robert Mugabe’s supporters blighted |
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HARARE -- A Harare court on Friday remanded Centre for Research and Development (CRD) director Farai Maguwu in custody to June 14, to allow the police to carry out further investigations outside Zimbabwe |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe police want to interview Kimberley Process monitor to the country Abbey Chikane in connection with charges against a top rights activist they accuse of communicating false statements prejudicial to the state |
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HARARE – Reports that villagers attending meetings on the drafting of a new constitution are reading from scripts allegedly prepared by President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party have plunged Zimbabwe’s constitutional reforms deeper into controversy |
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HARARE – Amnesty International has warned of a surge in political violence in Zimbabwe as President Robert Mugabe’s supporters intensify a campaign to cow opponents during an ongoing exercise to gather public views on a new constitution |
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HARARE -- The Confederation of Industries of Zimbabwe (CZI) has urged the government to allow private investors to operate some of its power stations to help boost electricity generation |
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HARARE – Police hunting for human rights activist Farai Maguwu camped at his house for nearly a week sleeping in his bed and feeding on his food |
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HARARE – Zimbabwe tourist arrivals rose three percent last year to reach two million, with industry authorities attributing the increase to formation of a coalition government that has brought relative peace and led Western governments to lift travel warnings against the country |
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HARARE -- Zimbabwe homosexual worker Ignatius Mhambi goes on trial today on charges of possessing drugs and pornographic material
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HARARE – The US has said it will resist any attempts by Zimbabwe to export diamonds from the controversial Marange fields as the World Diamond Council and non-governmental organisations accused |
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HARARE -- Zimbabwean energy utility, Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority Holdings, on Monday said negotiations were still underway with a Chinese bank to provide US$400 million to boost power generation in the southern African country |
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HARARE -- Zimbabwe police said on Monday two men accused of trying to enter South Africa to commit terrorism activities will spend more time behind bars as Interpol is yet to verify their nationalities |
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HARARE – Three representatives from civil society groups monitoring Zimbabwe’s constitutional reforms were on Sunday allegedly assaulted by supporters of President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party |
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