Fri, Sep 03, 2010
The past SADC summit made a decisive yet inconclusive decision on the evolving Zimbabwe question. As a Zimbabwean citizen living in South Africa, I thought this situation deserves to be revisited. The most pressing issue according to my analysis is the issue of the SADC Tribunal.
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Fri, Sep 03, 2010
About two years ago, South Africa, through its former president, Thabo Mbeki, cobbled up a power sharing arrangement and, with the assistance of SADC, rammed it down the throats of the long suffering Zimbabwean people.
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Thu, Sep 02, 2010
A BRITISH firm has invented the world's first bra to make boobs look ten years younger.
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Thu, Sep 02, 2010
Professor Stephen Hawking believes the laws of physics were behind the creation of the universe, not God
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Wed, Sep 01, 2010
During August, Robert Mugabe was pictured walking unsteadily and requiring the assistance of aides when going up and downstairs at various summits.
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Wed, Sep 01, 2010
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 political and economic stability in the southern African nation.
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Mon, Aug 30, 2010
The three finalists. Second Princess Shupikai Nyatito (left), Vanessa, and First Princess Sharon Mwanza.
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Mon, Aug 30, 2010
Juss Russ Baby is a UK based Zimbabwean born singer, songwriter, rapper and producer with a fresh new sound, flavour, swagger approach. His career off very well five 5 years ago in the United Kingdom and is on spreading his wings into native Zimbabwe. He has twelve banging singles already under his belt.
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Mon, Aug 30, 2010
Legendary Jamaican crooner/songwriter Gregory Isaacs collaborates with his South African counterpart, King Isaac. The Reggae singer/songwriter born in Zimbabwe, was in the island recently promoting his new album, Isaac Meets Isaac writes the Jamaica Observer.
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Fri, Aug 27, 2010
Blackburn Rovers boss Sam Allardyce is set to offer free agent striker Benjani Mwaruwari a contract at Ewood Park.
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Fri, Aug 27, 2010
HARARE - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is heading for the wheelchair as health problems mount, a senior intelligence source in the President’s office has revealed to The Zimbabwe Mail.
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Fri, Aug 27, 2010
Kenya and Zimbabwe's last elections, held within a few months of one another, were characterized by violence either before or after polling. The outcomes of both were strongly contested by the opposition, and in both cases international intervention produced transitional multi-party governments. On Friday, Kenyans celebrate the promulgation of a new constitution at high-profile ceremonies in Nairobi, while Zimbabwe is still trapped in stage one of its constitution-making process. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Russel Brueton examine why.
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Thu, Aug 26, 2010
King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, 46, in 2008 held the seventh position among the richest royals in the world, according to Forbes magazine’s top 15 wealthiest royals. Mohammed VI’s wealth, estimated at 500 million in 2000, has grown five times more in ten years.
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Thu, Aug 26, 2010
The first learning point I have encountered is that adopting the use of ‘foreign’ currency as legal tender in one’s country has very little impact on a country’s failed state or HIPC status.
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Wed, Aug 25, 2010
An auction of Zimbabwean diamonds has created an air of expectation that the country’s economic plight will be eased or even improved, but the stones realised as little as a fifth of their value, and most of the proceeds are expected to benefit controversial mining companies.
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Wed, Aug 25, 2010
Sexually transmitted infections have reached record levels, with teenage girls most at risk, doctors warned last night.
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Tue, Aug 24, 2010
A new type of migration is taking place in Zimbabwe. While in the past people crossed the borders into South Africa and Botswana seeking work and fleeing from their repressive circumstances, now a silent migration of HIV-positive children seeking antiretroviral treatment (ART) is taking place writers Ignatius Banda for IPS.
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Mon, Aug 23, 2010
HARARE, - An auction of Zimbabwean diamonds has created an air of expectation that the country’s economic plight will be eased or even improved, but the stones realized as little as a fifth of their value, and most of the proceeds are expected to benefit controversial mining companies.
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Sun, Aug 22, 2010
Douglas Mhembere had only a plastic bag in hand when he took over a farm eight years ago under Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's land reforms.
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Fri, Aug 20, 2010
THE world's first dating site for UGLY people has been launched in the UK.
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Fri, Aug 20, 2010
SADC's habit of being involved in regional issues by remote control will never bear fruit.
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Tue, Aug 17, 2010
Zanu PF should not continue to hide behind the word neo-colonialism to maintain a grip on the nation of Zimbabwe. We have seen with our own eyes, what the so-called liberators have done to enslave us through their jingles and songs on a national broadcaster, and having professors defending this lame excuse of an album is disheartening.
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Tue, Aug 17, 2010
HARARE, (IRIN) - The parliamentary committee in charge of reviewing Zimbabwe's constitution is actively inviting feedback and recommendations from the millions of Zimbabweans living abroad. (3 - 2 million Zimbabweans leave abroad)
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Tue, Aug 17, 2010
Chinese nationalist Mao tse Tung taught that a “fish and water” symbiosis between people and guerillas was essential for the success of any revolution.
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Mon, Aug 16, 2010
The Call is ringing out to return to God, unite and help the poor by training them to farm in a profitable and sustainable way. In response to this call, on the 26th September 2010 many thousands of people across Zimbabwe will gather together in urban and rural-combined church meetings, in order to cry out to God together in prayer for Zimbabwe announces LOVE ZIM.
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Mon, Aug 16, 2010
HARARE, Zimbabwe --Two years ago, Zimbabwe was on the precipice of an economic and social meltdown. There was widespread violence and lawlessness. Many people lost their lives.
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Sat, Aug 14, 2010
There is need to limit the executive powers of the President and Finance Minister to increase accountability and transparency and effectively manage public debt according to a report by ZIMCODD.
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Fri, Aug 13, 2010
A beauty therapist, 25, has claimed to have slept with 5,000 men in just nine years - or 3,285 days.
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Thu, Aug 12, 2010
HARARE - There are increasing concerns that the new members of Government of National Unity (GNU) have become comfortable with their new found positions in Government - forgetting their mandate of transforming Zimbabwe into a democratic state
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Thu, Aug 12, 2010
Zimbabweans should not expect any meaningful reaction to the prevailing crisis in Zimbabwe from the forthcoming SADC Summit in Windhoek, Namibia.
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Thu, Aug 12, 2010
OPINION - Political tensions are on the rise again in Zimbabwe where Robert Mugabe continues his mad rampage of beating up innocent people while hurling insults at the international community during burials.
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Wed, Aug 11, 2010
HARARE, (IRIN) - Sarah Moyo, 24 - not her real name - clasps her stunted one-year-old child to her chest as she talks to her visiting husband through a chain-link fence at the Central Remand Prison, on the eastern fringe of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare.
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Fri, Aug 06, 2010
Shares fell around the world today after unemployment numbers for America came in far worse than expected.
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Thu, Aug 05, 2010
Chiadzwa, is regarded as the richest diamond find of the century. Over the past nine months, rudimentary mining only in one small area of the field has reportedly yielded 4 million carats, worth around 2 billion US dollars.
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Mon, Aug 02, 2010
A property firm largely invested in hospitality and tourism has expressed concern over the country's political process which it said undermined efforts to mitigate the negative perception around brand Zimbabwe.
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Wed, Jul 28, 2010
GURUVE, Zimbabwe, (IPS) - Eleven-year-old Irene Thembo* lies curled like a foetus on a white wooden bench for outpatients at a clinic in rural Zimbabwe. The orphan, whose parents died of HIV-related illnesses, is terribly sick.
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Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is little more than the front man for a military junta, senior Movement for Democratic Change leader has said.
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Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Zimbabwe will soon open up its doors to investors in the energy sector to invest as independent power producers or public-private partnership arrangement in the development of larger power projects in the country, The Herald said on Tuesday.
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Tue, Jul 27, 2010
Senior ANC members flew to China yesterday for a two-week study tour that will include hearing a lecture on the role of state-owned enterprises.
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Mon, Jul 26, 2010
Harare - Thandiwe Ncube cannot conceal her pain and bitterness when she speaks about her husband's murder nine years ago by suspected militant backers of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe. (Pictured: Mugabe, once boasted having degrees in violence now he seems to have a doctorate as he meticulously exterminates any dissenters)
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Mon, Jul 26, 2010
“Politicians can go to any length in order to win votes and stay in power forever. I was not surprised to see recent pictures of President Robert Mugabe clad in full Apostolic Church regalia holding a hob stick, on a mission to lure the sect members to embrace his leadership. We have always known him to be a devout Roman Catholic”, remarked Leona Kazembe, a Catholic lay leader.
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Mon, Jul 26, 2010
ZIMBABWE said Wednesday it will “immediately” auction a stockpile of more than 4.5 million carats of diamonds that it has been sitting on during the past nine months due to an international ban on trade in gems from the country’s controversial Marange fields.
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Mon, Jul 26, 2010
Mutare, - Anjin China, a Chinese company awarded rights to mine diamonds in Chiadzwa has come under fire from villagers after it emerged it was not offering locals jobs.
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Mon, Jul 26, 2010
London, - The UK Border Agency (UKBA) has announced it will review applications of migrants whose pleas were refused solely because they failed to meet the financial requirements for maintenance.
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Mon, Jul 26, 2010
ZIMBABWE’S Ambassador to Germany, Mr Hebson Makuvise, has challenged MDC-T secretary-general Mr Tendai Biti to counsel his young brother Stanford against bringing MDC-T and the country into disrepute by disseminating falsehoods in the United Kingdom and on the Internet. ( Tendai Biti: Why should he be thy brother's keeper?)
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Mon, Jul 26, 2010
Land reform under Robert Mugabe has seen a once productive landscape turn barren and reliant on imports
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