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Zimbabwean Oscar winner 'Music by Prudence' get to big screen
Mon, Mar 08, 2010
Music by Prudence," made partly with the financial and creative support of the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore's MICA, overcame several other strong candidates, including the American labor tragedy "The Last Truck," to win best short documentary at the 2010 Academy Awards on Sunday night.
Nation Bleeds While Battle for Chiadzwa Intensifies
Fri, Mar 05, 2010
THE mystery surrounding the Chiadzwa diamonds continues to deepen with the alleged blockage of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines' visit to the fields for investigations wites William Chibhebhe.
Tales of Witchcraft Abound in Zimbabwe
Fri, Mar 05, 2010
In Zimbabwe, witchcraft is still common in rural areas. Hardly a week passes without a local report or newspaper story on the practice. For example, police recently cornered a man at the Mbare Mbare bus terminal, after they discovered a live cobra snake in his luggage. He told officers the reptile was one of his witching tools.
Avi Krawitz: An Open Letter to Abbey Chikane, the New KP Monitor for Zimbabwe
Thu, Mar 04, 2010
Dear Abbey: Firstly, congratulations on your appointment as the Kimberley Process (KP) monitor for Marange, Zimbabwe. It would be appropriate to say welcome back to the diamond industry, and even more appropriate to say welcome home. As a founding member and a former chairman of the process, I can’t think of any individual who is more suited to the job at hand.
Zimbabwe: Political and Security Challenges to the Transition
Thu, Mar 04, 2010
Despite initial scepticism, Zimbabwe’s year-old unity government has achievements to its credit, but the democratic transition remains at risk, especially from hard-line security officials – President Robert Mugabe’s last reliable supporters.
Journo calls Zuma a 'sex-obsessed bigot'
Tue, Mar 02, 2010
President Jacob Zuma has touched down on his first state visit to the UK and his programme begins in earnest on Wednesday when he will be entertained by the Queen.
A mysterious arms dealer lands Illinois golf course in legal "twilight zone"
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
MARION, ILL. — Until recently, people here had little reason to know the name John A. Bredenkamp or anything about his past, a tale worthy of a James Bond villain, filled with allegations of international arms deals, blood diamond trades and ties to despotic regimes in his native Africa.
Bob is 'God's gift to Africa'
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Praise-singing politicians fall over themselves to salute Zimbabwe's leader as he nears 30 years in office
Windies slump to Zimbabwe
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Zimbabwe recorded a 26-run triumph in an extraordinary Twenty20 International against West Indies in Trinidad.
African leaders show there are many countries for old men
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
Robert Mugabe is the eldest statesman on a continent where age is seldom a barrier to power
Women in Zimbabwe:We want a future
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
The UN Commission on the Status of Women convenes in New York today (1 March) to look at gender equality and the advancement of women. The ongoing challenge is how to help young women with few choices, like Privilege Zengeni, realise their aspirations. Oxfam’s Nicole Johnston reports
Mugabe to celebrate 86th birthday with televised £325,000 lobster feast
Fri, Feb 26, 2010
Guests will enjoy lobster, prawns and caviar to be washed down with bottles of Johnnie Walker Blue Label and Chevas Regal whiskies.
Transcript: FT interview with Jacob Zuma
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
Interview with Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa.
Zimbabwe novelist finds a safe haven in Miami
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
The death threats? Too numerous to count. The serious attempts on his life ranged from make-believe doctors offering potentially fatal ``medicine'' to a traffic accident that was no accident at all.
Urban poor's struggle for survival limits options for curbing climate damage
Tue, Feb 23, 2010
MUTARE, Zimbabwe (AlertNet) - The double pressures of climate change and poverty threaten to make Africa one of the regions hardest hit by coming climate-related problems. Nowhere is that more evident than in Zimbabwe, where the urban poor already struggle to survive in a harsh economic climate.
Exclusive: How Malema made his millions
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema's millionaire lifestyle is being bank-rolled by lucrative government contracts awarded to his companies.
Zimbabwe, Africa’s patient tiger, optimistic despite economy and corruption
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
When outsiders hear news of Zimbabwe, it’s usually tragic: hyperinflation driving the economy into ruin, white farmers beaten and chased off their land, dubious election results keeping Robert Mugabe in power. So when locals say they’re hopeful about the future, you’d be forgiven for being surprised writes Christine Nikol in The Daily Caller.
Zimbabwe a plum posting for envoys
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
HARARE, Zimbabwe — As Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, sinks into an abyss of infrastructural decay and collapsing services, the countries that maintain a diplomatic presence here regard it as a plum posting. Not quite as choice as Canberra or Pretoria perhaps, but certainly not Abuja or Kinshasa.
Plans for all-night Robert Mugabe birthday party 'are insensitive'
Tue, Feb 16, 2010
Plans to hold a lavish all-night birthday party for the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, were today condemned as insensitive to the suffering of the country's people.
Botswana-Zimbabwe relations worsen
Mon, Feb 15, 2010
The diplomatic spat between Botswana and Zimbabwe continues to worsen as the two countries trade diplomatic blows in the international arena.
World Cup may trigger early general election in Zimbabwe
Sun, Feb 14, 2010
MDC hopes to use global spotlight on South Africa to ensure Robert Mugabe runs a fair and non-violent poll .
Global Post: Zimbabwe's power-sharing government under threat
Sun, Feb 14, 2010
HARARE, Zimbabwe — The prospects of survival for Zimbabwe's power-sharing government are gloomy as an impasse has been reached in negotiations between President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's rival Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
Chisora has a point to prove as a heavy-weight boxer
Thu, Feb 11, 2010
Zimbabwe -born DEREK CHISORA reckons he is the heavyweight everyone wants to avoid.
The polarised lives of Zimbabwe's rich and poor
Thu, Feb 11, 2010
Thursday marks the first anniversary of Zimbabwe's so-called "inclusive government".
Sikhala condemns Mutambara's Look East outbursts
Wed, Feb 10, 2010
Mutambara: A danger to himself When I pronounced to the world in mid-2009 about our seizure of control of the party (MDC) we founded, from Authur Mutambara’s control, many people thought that it was the rumblings of a rubble-rouser. There were a number of issues we raised as I led the fatal rebellion against forces of darkness
Judge tells SA to pay for Mugabe sins
Tue, Feb 09, 2010
The South African government has been hauled over the coals by a Pretoria High Court judge for not protecting its citizens from Robert Mugabe's land expropriations.
A year into Zim’s coalition
Tue, Feb 09, 2010
Harare - When any section of the Zimbabwe civil service goes on strike, the usual retort from the long-suffering public is: "How do you tell the difference?"
Video:Poor old nice Peter Andre breaks down during TV interview
Wed, Feb 03, 2010
Peter Andre has broken down during a TV interview - telling the reporter that he didn't want to continue with the conversation.
Zim Assoc to the rescue of despairing exiles in UK
Wed, Feb 03, 2010
LONDON - As Zimbabwe has lurched from crisis to crisis, over the past eight years a small London-based charity has worked tirelessly to alleviate the fallout among members of the Diaspora in the UK.
Drought driving rise in urban agriculture in Zimbabwe
Tue, Jan 26, 2010
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AlertNet) - Olivia Chitingo has been a farmer most of her adult life.
One Million Casualties of Land Reform
Tue, Jan 26, 2010
JOHANNESBURG and CAPE TOWN,(IPS) - The seizure of large commercial farms - almost all white-owned - has continued despite the formation of a unity government in Zimbabwe. The country's farm workers say they are the biggest losers.
British Embassy statement on sanctions
Tue, Jan 26, 2010
IN LIGHT of recent press interest, the British Embassy Harare would like to clarify the British Government's position as regards the EU's restrictive measures.
Zimbabwe Vigil Weekend Diary
Tue, Jan 26, 2010
GIVEN all the attention paid in Zimbabwe to the recent comments by British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, Vigil supporters were surprised that commentators only seem to have noticed his rather obvious remarks about sanctions.
Zimbabwe still hiding war crimes fugitive
Mon, Jan 25, 2010
Kigali — The Zimbabwean government is hiding one of the World’s most wanted war criminals, former head of Rwandan Presidential Guard during the 1994 genocide Protais Mpiranya, a Belgian news agency reported.
Time:New Elections: Zimbabwe's Leaders Trade Positions
Sat, Jan 23, 2010
Good guys like elections. Bad guys fix or nix them. Or so goes the thinking that underpins much of Western foreign policy. But in Zimbabwe, it appears to be the other way around right now: hardline President Robert Mugabe is pushing for a vote while his pro-democracy rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, is dragging his feet. What gives?
Woman had sex with boy, 12, nearly 200 times
Wed, Jan 20, 2010
A single mother of 36 had sex nearly 200 times with a 12-year-old boy she had seduced, putting a star in her diary each time they had sex
India, China build parliaments for better Africa ties
Mon, Jan 18, 2010
India is building Ghana’s parliament. China is constructing parliaments in Malawi and Lesotho, and agreed to fund the construction of a third in Zimbabwe
Public strike to test Zim's fragile coalition
Fri, Jan 15, 2010
HARARE – A planned national strike by Zimbabwean state workers in February would cripple public services and exert pressure on Harare's fragile coalition which has a huge task of rebuilding a devastated economy, analysts said.
Women protest against Zimbabwe law review bias
Thu, Jan 14, 2010
Zimbabwe's troubled constitution making process has hit another snag after women threatened to disrupt the exercise arguing that it is biased towards men.
Sharks say Beast will stay
Wed, Jan 13, 2010
SPRINGBOK prop forward Beast Mtawarira will be staying and playing his rugby in Durban this year.
The Seeds of Plenty
Wed, Jan 13, 2010
Harare — In 2009 Zimbabwe withdrew the local dollar and allowed the use of foreign currency to bring down hyperinflation, but outside of urban centres this money is often scarce and also makes food expensive, so Godknows Chuma started growing his own and discovered that his green fingers could provide for his family.
Senior South African politician wants Tendai Mtawarira to be deported
Wed, Jan 13, 2010
A senior politician in South Africa wants Tendai "The Beast" Mtawarira, the Sharks prop whose scrummaging sent South Africa on their way to winning last summer's series against the Lions, thrown out of the country and deported to Zimbabwe, where he was born and brought up.
Mnangagwa plots fight-back
Mon, Jan 11, 2010
HARARE – Political infighting within Zanu (PF) took a new twist last week amid revelations that the faction led by defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa is planning a major fight-back to regain control of the party by exploiting the regional and ethnic fault-lines reports The Zimbabwean.
Zanu PF's Fight Over Diamonds
Mon, Jan 11, 2010
Harare — INTENSE infighting within Zanu PF over control of the Marange diamonds stalled the planned sale of diamonds on Thursday and is frustrating proper mining operations of the precious mineral, sources told The Standard last week.
Independent Appeal: Rescuing Zimbabwe's lost generation
Thu, Jan 07, 2010
They are trained to be the stormtroopers of political violence – but now a veteran of Zimbabwe's freedom struggle is working to redeem them, writes Basildon Peta
