Wed, Jun 24, 2009
HARARE – Last year’s decision by China and Russia to block United Nations (UN) sanctions against Zimbabwe paved way for power-sharing negotiations to continue leading to formation of a unity government in the African country, Beijing’s top diplomat in Harare said on Tuesday.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
BULAWAYO – Zimbabwean Deputy Premier Arthur Mutambara’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-M) formation has finally laid out charges against five legislators who are part of seven officials suspended by the party two months ago.
Sun, Aug 23, 2009
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe this week commandeered an Air Zimbabwe plane to Namibia, keeping it overnight before grabbing another jet for a private visit to Dubai, making the airline lose critical income at a time when it is battling to meet its financial obligations reports Zimonline.
Tue, Aug 25, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s coalition government must uphold the rule of law to attract investors key to any effort to rebuild the country’s shattered economy, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Monday.
Fri, Jul 03, 2009
MUTARE – A former soldier who was jailed for possessing an arms cache, was released on Thursday and vowed not to be a state witness in the trial of MDC Deputy Minister of Agriculture designate Roy Bennett in October.
Mon, Jul 06, 2009
CHEGUTU – A guard, who was being accused of killing a man at Senate President Edna Madzongwe’s newly acquired Stockdale Farm, this week shot and killed himself in a toilet at the farm.
Mon, Jul 06, 2009
HARARE – Mobile airtime services providers NetOne and Zellco have switched off more than 1 000 contract lines that had been leased to Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe employees as a result of failure to settle bills.
Tue, Jul 07, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s teachers have threatened to go on strike if they do not get a pay rise by month-end, accusing the country’s power-sharing government of duping them in the past with false promises to review their salaries
Tue, Jul 14, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe and South Africa are set to sign a long delayed bilateral investment protection agreement by end of next month, Zimbabwe’s Economic Planning Minister Elton Mangoma has said.
Tue, Jul 14, 2009
BULAWAYO – Three legislators from Zimbabwean Deputy Premier Arthur Mutambara’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-M) formation have filed papers with the High Court in Bulawayo seeking an order setting aside the outcome of their disciplinary hearing, their lawyer said at the weekend.
Thu, Jul 16, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest political pressure group, the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA), said on Wednesday it was embarking on a parallel process to produce a draft constitution for the country after disagreeing with the government on who should lead the writing of the charter.
Thu, Jul 16, 2009
HARARE – The militant Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) yesterday declared it would take its demonstrations over salary increments to President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s offices after an attempt by protesting members to meet Public Service Minister Eliphas Mukonoweshuro failed on Monday.
Fri, Jul 17, 2009
BULAWAYO – ZANU PF politburo member and former Mayor of Bulawayo Joshua Malinga on Thursday appeared in a Bulawayo magistrate court facing charges of undermining the authority of the police.
Fri, Jul 17, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwean political activists and a journalist abducted last year by state agents have sued two Cabinet ministers and the agents for a combined US$19.2 million in damages for the unlawful abduction, detention and deprivation of liberty.
Wed, Jul 22, 2009
BULAWAYO – Former ZANU PF stalwart Dumiso Dabengwa’s Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) party on Tuesday said it will contest by-elections to fill parliamentary posts left vacant following the dismissal of three legislators from Deputy Premier Arthur Mutambara’s MDC faction.
Wed, Jul 22, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest labour movement yesterday criticised the government for approving a scheme to import vehicles for parliamentarians instead of buying locally assembled vehicles.
Thu, Jul 30, 2009
BULAWAYO – Zimbabwe’s political parties are divided over who should lead a national healing process with President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party opposing plans by the former opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party to let the church and civic society steer the sensitive process, it has been learnt.
Thu, Sep 03, 2009
HARARE – The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal will refer Zimbabwe’s land dispute to a summit of regional leaders scheduled for next week after Harare said it no longer recognised the court’s authority to hear the matter.
Thu, Sep 03, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe central bank governor Gideon Gono has withdrawn recommendations to President Robert Mugabe that the veteran leader reverses the seizure of private firm, SMM Holdings, by the government.
Fri, Sep 04, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwean Prime Minister (PM) Morgan Tsvangirai has ordered the removal of 15 agents from his close security team following a misunderstanding among the guards which sources said could have compromised the Premier security reports Zimonline.
Fri, Oct 16, 2009
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party will today hold a crisis meeting to consider suspending “nearly all contact” with President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party, sources said yesterday, as Zimbabwe’s coalition government looked headed for more choppy waters.
Tue, Sep 08, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwean non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have named top military commanders accused of masterminding a ruthless campaign to keep President Robert Mugabe in power in a second round presidential election in June last year that left scores of villagers dead and thousands others displaced from their homes.
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
HARARE -- Southern African leaders have urged the West to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe, angering Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai while emboldening President Robert Mugabe who is likely to frustrate key reforms but analysts say the fragile coalition will hold and regional leaders anxious of a failed neighbour will eventually rein in the veteran leader writes Edith Kaseke for Zimonline.
Mon, Sep 14, 2009
HARARE – Heavily armed police backed by water cannons cordoned off a Harare shopping centre to block a public march by workers at the weekend, in yet another example of how little the country’s security forces have changed despite formation of a power-sharing government six months ago.
Fri, Oct 16, 2009
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has written to Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa asking him to stop a brigadier general from unlawfully using national army soldiers to invade a white-owned farm, in a sign of growing discord within Zimbabwe’s coalition government writes the Zimonline.
Tue, Sep 22, 2009
JOHANNESBURG – South African President Jacob Zuma on Monday said Zimbabwe's inclusive government should fully implement last year’s Global Political Agreement (GPA) to end squabbles threatening viability of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) brokered political settlement.
Tue, Sep 22, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s constitutional reforms were on Monday plunged deeper into confusion with President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party rejecting reports that the governing coalition had finally agreed not to base the new supreme law on the controversial Kariba draft constitution.
Fri, Sep 25, 2009
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has sent a special delegation to London to appeal to Zimbabweans domiciled in the United Kingdom to invest back home.The delegation, led by Minister of State in the Prime Minister's office Gorden Moyo, left Harare on Wednesday night and is expected to address Zimbabweans and other prospective investors on Saturday.
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday denied state media reports that the Council of Ministers has endorsed Zimbabwe’s pull out from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal.
Wed, Sep 30, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s politicised security forces remain a threat to efforts to stabilise the country, a British defence and security think-tank said, urging the Harare coalition government to prioritise restructuring and transformation of a security establishment that has already spread tentacles into several key non-military institutions of state.
Wed, Sep 30, 2009
HARARE – University of Zimbabwe law lecturer Geoff Feltoe has emerged as the leading candidate from 25 applicants following interviews of prospective commissioners to the Independent Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (IZEC) by Parliament on Monday, Reports ZimOnline.
Mon, Oct 05, 2009
HARARE – Hundreds of hungry Zimbabwean villagers are being denied food handouts and forced to denounce their own parties in return for assistance as marauding ZANU PF militants continue to wage war of attrition against perceived political enemies, a leading human rights group has said.
Mon, Oct 05, 2009
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe will on Tuesday officially open the second session of the 7th Parliament of Zimbabwe, where he is expected to highlight the performance of the inclusive government.
Tue, Oct 06, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s unity government should prioritise health and education sectors that had collapsed after years of neglect and under-funding, Prime Minister (PM) Morgan Tsvangirai said on Monday.
Tue, Oct 13, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Parliament on Monday interviewed candidates to serve on the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) that is one of several key commissions the Harare coalition government must establish as part of a drive to reshape and democratise the country’s politics.
Tue, Oct 13, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has appealed to Western donor countries to reward the good work of his unity government with President Robert Mugabe by widening support to include development assistance.
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
HARARE – Prime Minister (PM) Morgan Tsvangirai cancelled a weekly Council of Ministers meeting and will not be coming to office to protest Wednesday’s detention of his top ally Roy Bennett, in the biggest test yet for Zimbabwe’s fragile coalition government reports Zimonline.
Tue, Oct 20, 2009
HARARE – United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak will next week visit Zimbabwe to gather “first-hand information about torture” in the African country where police are often accused of torturing political opponents of President Robert Mugabe.
Tue, Oct 20, 2009
HARARE – A pioneering black Zimbabwean commercial farmer has been evicted from his farm in defiance of a Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal ruling barring his eviction.
Wed, Oct 28, 2009
HARARE – The High Court on Tuesday upheld the conviction and sentencing of prosecutor Andrew Kumire by a Harare magistrate for contempt of court during the trial of prominent human rights lawyer Alec Muchadehama, but it was not immediately clear whether the state had complied with the order to send Kumire to prison.
Mon, Nov 02, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe faces another lean agricultural season with the majority of the country’s large-scale producing white commercial farmers saying they are unable to plant crops due to ongoing disturbances on farms according to a Zimonline report.
Mon, Oct 26, 2009
HARARE –Zimonline: A senior official of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party said on Sunday that they were indications the Premier could meet President Robert Mugabe today to try to resolve a power-sharing dispute that has plunged Zimbabwe’s coalition government into its worst crisis.
Thu, Oct 29, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe should be banned from the world diamond market because of human rights violations and other irregularities at the country’s notorious Marange diamond field, a Kimberley Process (KP) review mission has recommended in its final report.
Fri, Oct 30, 2009
HARARE – A Southern African Development Community (SADC) security organ delegation currently reviewing implementation of Zimbabwe’s fragile power-sharing agreement is on Friday scheduled to meet the country’s feuding political leaders, President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
Tue, Nov 03, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwean prosecutors have charged a senior official of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party with stealing weapons from an army barrack, in a case certain to stoke up tensions in the country’s shaky power-sharing government.
Tue, Nov 03, 2009
HARARE – The SADC troika will hold a summit this week, in a sign of growing pressure against President Robert Mugabe but analysts said regional leaders would need to press hard the obstinate octogenarian to fully implement terms of last year’s Global Political Agreement (GPA) and save a fragile unity government from collapse.
Wed, Nov 04, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s cash strapped government has managed to raise only US$5.7 million out of $48 million it had planned to use to fund agricultural production this season, the ministry of agriculture said on Tuesday.
Tue, Nov 10, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s few remaining white farmers said on Monday that they had sought without success help from Agriculture Minister Joseph Made and his lands counterpart Herbert Murerwa to end fresh farm invasions by military officers and supporters of President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party.
Wed, Nov 11, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s three governing parties are expected to begin negotiations before weekend in line with a SADC recommendation to tackle a power-sharing dispute threatening to tear apart their shaky coalition government.
Thu, Nov 12, 2009
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU PF party will resist calls by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to fully implement last year’s power-sharing agreement until at least after the party’s congress next month, a top official told ZimOnline Wednesday.
Fri, Nov 13, 2009
Wellington Chibebe, the ZCTU secretary-general, in a hard-hitting statement after the release of Matombo and the staffers said there was urgent need to reform the police for the force to work independently.
Wed, Nov 18, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s coalition government will this month audit the civil service to establish the number of genuine public workers in a workforce that some say is packed with thousands of supporters of President Robert Mugabe who draw salaries every month without providing any actual service to the state.
Wed, Nov 25, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe state agents tortured a gun-dealer until he passed out in a bid to make him confess to working with a top ally of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in a plot to assassinate President Robert Mugabe, the High Court heard on Tuesday.
Thu, Nov 26, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s political parties should act now to prevent recurrence of election violence that last year left at least 200 supporters of the then opposition MDC party dead, a senior official of President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party said on Wednesday.
Fri, Nov 27, 2009
HARARE – The Zimbabwean government is willing to engage British mining firm African Consolidated Resources (ACR) in negotiations to resolve an ownership dispute over the controversial Marange diamond field, a top government official said Thursday.
Sun, Nov 29, 2009
Harare - Zimbabwe's prime minister says he is thankful for South African efforts to rescue his coalition government.
Wed, Dec 02, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Tuesday said Parliament should hold government ministers in check and ensure those who abuse state funds are brought to book.
Wed, Dec 16, 2009
HARARE – CITES secretary general Willem Wijnstekers is expected in Zimbabwe next month for talks with President Robert Mugabe over rampant poaching decimating wildlife in the southern African country and said to involve top politicians and army officials.
Thu, Dec 03, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga on Wednesday said the country would by this time next year have a new and democratic constitution.
Fri, Dec 04, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s three governing political parties on Thursday resumed talks to try to resolve a power-sharing dispute threatening their shaky coalition government after taking a break to meet a team of facilitators appointed by South Africa leader Jacob Zuma.
Fri, Dec 04, 2009
HARARE – A government organ for national reconciliation will look into human violations before and after Zimbabwe’s independence including an 80s army crackdown in the south of the country that killed thousands of innocent civilians from the Ndebele ethnic group.
Wed, Dec 09, 2009
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe will likely use this week’s congress of his ZANU PF party to harden his stance against MDC demands to resolve a power-sharing dispute so he can appease party hawks opposed to the coalition government and show the party faithful that he is in complete control of the new administration, analysts said.
Thu, Dec 17, 2009
HARARE – A special parliamentary committee leading Zimbabwe's constitutional reform process has named a 425-member team drawn from lawmakers, politicians and civic society members that will make up thematic committees to lead drafting of the country's new governance charter.
Tue, Jan 05, 2010
HARARE -- Whether the president should wield more power than the prime minister or whether capital punishment should stay, are some of the issues Zimbabweans will be asked about during a 65-day public consultation exercise on a proposed new constitution, top officials said Tuesday.
Tue, Jan 12, 2010
HARARE – Energy Minister Elias Mudzuri on Monday said he ordered the country’s power utility – Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) – to stop exporting power to Namibia since the Hwange power station was not working properly.
Wed, Jan 13, 2010
BULAWAYO – A serious shortage of fertilizer has hit Zimbabwe’s farming sector sparking fears of another poor harvest in a country that has experienced acute food shortages for most of the past decade, a farmers’ organisation said on Monday.
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.
Tue, Jun 22, 2010
HARARE -- Zimbabwean police are blocking Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's key aide Roy Bennett from removing agricultural equipment from his former property, Charleswood estate, lawyers said last week.
Thu, Jan 21, 2010
HARARE – South Africa’s government has sent a written protest to Harare over the invasion of South African-owned farms in Zimbabwe, a development that suggests Pretoria could be hardening its stance towards President Robert Mugabe’s controversial land reforms.
Thu, Feb 04, 2010
HARARE - Chaotic scenes erupted in Zimbabwe's Parliament yesterday forcing the House to adjourn prematurely after a legislator proposed a motion to urge Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to call on Western nations to lift sanctions against President Robert Mugabe and his top allies
Fri, Feb 05, 2010
Zimbabwe's constitutional committee says a key exercise to consult citizens on the proposed new governance charter cannot go ahead without police backing, in the latest obstruction to the crucial reforms that are already behind schedule.
Mon, Feb 08, 2010
BULAWAYO -- South African mediators are expected to meet negotiators from Zimbabwe’s squabbling coalition partners on Monday ahead of resumption of talks to resolve a raft of differences and outstanding issues threatening the stability of the Harare unity government.
Tue, Feb 09, 2010
Divisions have rocked the European Union about whether to renew targeted measures against Robert Mugabe and his regime cronies or heed Morgan Tsvangirai’s plea to end them to try and coax the geriatric Zimbabwean leader into fulfilling outstanding issues in the Global Political Agreement which ushered in Zimbabwe’s unity government early last year.
Tue, Feb 09, 2010
HARARE – CITES secretary general Willem Wijnstekers has arrived in Zimbabwe on four-day working visit which will see him meeting Prime Minister (PM) Morgan Tsvangirai and Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa over rampant poaching decimating wildlife in the southern African country and said to involve top politicians and army officials.
Fri, Feb 12, 2010
JOHANNESBURG - The new chairman of Zimbabwe's electoral commission will oversee his Herculean task to overhaul the country's skewed electoral system from his Namibian base, he told ZimOnline this week.
Wed, Feb 17, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Tourism Minister Walter Muzembi on Tuesday urged Harare coalition partners to engage constructively on the country’s controversial empowerment laws announced last week compelling foreign-owned firms to cede controlling stake to locals.
Wed, Feb 17, 2010
HARARE – Some members of the boards of two firms mining diamonds at Zimbabwe’s controversial Marange diamond field were once illegal drug and diamond dealers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Sierra Leone, parliamentarians have said.
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe on Friday appointed the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC), one several commission meant to open democratic space and reform Zimbabwe’s politics.
Mon, Feb 22, 2010
HARARE – Struggling Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) Holdings has extended electricity power cuts across the country following the complete loss of power from Hwange Thermal Power Station, the firm said.
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s labour movement has called for an investigation into mining of diamonds at the controversial Chiadzwa field, amid allegations that top officials from President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party and the military are looting the gemstones for sale on the international black-market for precious stones.
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
HARARE – Indigenisation Minister Saviour Kasukuwere on Wednesday told ZimOnline that regulations to force foreign firms to offload controlling stake to local blacks will come into force next Monday, appearing to brush aside objections to the controversial rules by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
Fri, Feb 26, 2010
HARARE – A key state witness – supposed to be an information technology (IT) expert – turned out to be just a cable layer after he was unmasked by defence lawyers of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s top aide Roy Bennett, who is facing terrorism charges.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s foreign-owned companies woke up on 45 days notice today to meet a government directive to draft plans on how they will sell majority stakes to blacks, leaving alarmed investors seriously considering their future and dampening the country’s recovery prospects reports Zimonline.
Thu, Mar 18, 2010
HARARE – Mines Minister Obert Mpofu has declared that London-based mining firm African Consolidated Resources (ACR), “controlled by one white man”, will never mine diamonds at Marange diamond field in eastern Zimbabwe as long as he is in charge of the ministry.
Fri, Mar 19, 2010
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has agreed during his two-day meetings with South African President Jacob Zuma to give back ministers from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party functions and responsibilities he had unilaterally stripped them of, a source close to the power-sharing talks told ZimOnline Thursday.
Fri, Mar 19, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe will next month launch a new blue print to succeed the Short Term Emergence Recovery Programme (STERP) hastily cobbled up in March 2009 following formation of a power sharing government between President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
Mon, Mar 22, 2010
HARARE – Mines Minister Obert Mpofu has admitted that some officials of the two companies contracted to mine diamonds at the controversial Marange fields might be “crooks” but insisted during a parliamentary probe into irregularities in the mining sector that it was “virtually impossible” to get clean people in the industry.
Thu, Mar 25, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe drastically reduced funding for education from about US$6 per child in the first two decades of independence to a paltry $0.70 last year as political leaders diverted resources to consolidating power, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Wednesday.
Fri, Apr 09, 2010
HARARE – Two prominent Zimbabwean academics who had been appointed to represent the civil society on parliamentary committee leading the country’s constitutional reforms have been dropped at the request of rights activists.
Fri, Apr 09, 2010
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday promised business leaders new and “more progressive” empowerment laws, as Zimbabwe’s ruling coalition continues to give conflicting signals over its controversial plan to place more of the economy in the hands of local blacks.
Wed, Apr 14, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s MDC party on Tuesday said its leader and the country’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was not planning to travel to Europe next week to call for lifting of sanctions against President Robert Mugabe and his inner circle.
Wed, Apr 14, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Vice-President John Nkomo today visits the controversial Chiadzwa diamond field to assess operations by two mining firms – Mbada Investments and Canadile Miners – two weeks after police barred parliamentarians from touring the area.
Wed, May 05, 2010
HARARE – Five prospective mass media houses have submitted applications to operate new newspapers in Zimbabwe, among them NewsDay owned by media mogul Trevor Ncube, Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) officials said on Wednesday.
Thu, May 06, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest platinum producer Zimplats Holdings has said commencement of a US$445 million project to ramp up production to nearly 300 000 ounces annually was dependent on finalisation of “compliance issues” regarding the country’s controversial black economic empowerment laws.
Thu, May 13, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s unity government has begun surveys to gather vital information and statistics to guide state bureaucrats plotting the economy’s recovery from a decade of acute recession and hyperinflation.
Sat, May 15, 2010
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe will travel to Iran on Sunday in a bid to bolster economic ties and elicit investment from the Persian Gulf state as the West continues to withhold critical funding needed to fully restore the once vibrant economy reports ZimOnline.
Sat, May 15, 2010
HARARE – President Jacob Zuma’s mediation effort in Zimbabwe is being thwarted by failure by the three principals in the Harare coalition to meet to discuss the final report submitted by their negotiators, a top South African official has said.
Thu, May 20, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s miners have asked the government to lower to 15 percent shareholding that foreign-owned mining firms must cede to local blacks under a controversial economic empowerment scheme that Harare has said will target the multi-billion dollar mining industry first.
Mon, May 24, 2010
KIMBERLY Process (KP) monitor for Zimbabwe Abbey Chikane is expected in the country on Wednesday, as government tries to comply with international regulations to trade in diamonds from the controversial Marange field.
Mon, Jun 07, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe and other countries affected by recurrent election violence should set up special police and prosecution taskforces to deal with poll-related murders, a senior UN official has said.
Wed, Jun 02, 2010
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai finally met on Monday but failed to discuss the final report submitted almost two months ago by negotiators in the power-sharing talks, sources said Tuesday.
Wed, Jun 02, 2010
HARARE – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is considering introducing a staff-monitored programme (MTP) for Zimbabwe as it warns of “debt distress” in the southern African country burdened with arrears of more than US$4.5 billion.
Mon, Jun 07, 2010
HARARE –The trial of a Zimbabwean lawmaker facing charges of allegedly singing a song that insulted President Robert Mugabe resumes today as Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party warns of a plot to decimate its structures ahead of polls expected next year.
Tue, Sep 14, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s unity government has agreed to probe human rights abuses committed after December 2008, Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa said on Monday, effectively ruling out investigating gross abuses committed since independence or before.
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s squabbling political leaders have agreed to call back South African President Jacob Zuma to mediate in a power-sharing dispute threatening to destabilise their already shaky coalition government,reports Zimonline a south African based online newspaper.
Fri, Jun 11, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe now enjoys “an accelerated relationship” with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a decade after the fund withdrew balance-of-payments support to the African nation, a top Harare official said on Thursday.
Mon, Jun 14, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s unity government this week begins an exercise to consult the public on the drafting of a new constitution amid confusion over whether police will enforce a tough security law that they have previously used to regulate or ban public meetings.
Thu, Jun 17, 2010
HARARE -- The life of Zimbabwean diamond rights researcher Farai Maguwu is in danger after police officers tampered with his medication, his lawyer told the High Court on Wednesday.
Fri, Jun 18, 2010
HARARE – The German embassy in Harare has written to the Zimbabwe government protesting against continued violation of an investment protection agreement between the two countries and warned this could harm further aid from Berlin.
Mon, Jun 21, 2010
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Support Network (ZESN) has renewed calls for by-elections in 20 constituencies where the Harare unity government has deferred polls apparently because of fears elections could plunge the country back into political violence as parties jockey for the vacant parliamentary seats.
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
BULAWAYO – Chaos marked the beginning of Zimbabwe’s exercise to consult the public on the drafting of a new constitution on Wednesday, while in the volatile province of Mashonaland East there were fears of an outbreak of political violence reports Zimonline.
Wed, Jul 07, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s constitutional reform commission has retracted calls for the arrest of NGO workers monitoring public consultations on the proposed new governance charter, saying it wanted to work with civil society on the reforms.
Wed, Jul 07, 2010
HARARE -- The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KP) will next month convene in Russia to determine the fate of diamonds from Zimbabwe's Marange fields after four-day a meeting in Tel Aviv closed Thursday with members failing to reach consensus on Zimbabwe's compliance with the diamond watchdog's requirements, the KP has announced.
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
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, Education Minister David Coltart told ZimOnline on Wednesday.
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
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 members of President Robert Mugabe’s party looted white farms.
Sun, Jul 11, 2010
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.
Mon, Jul 12, 2010
HARARE -- President Robert Mugabe will officially open Zimbabwe’s Parliament tomorrow, with the veteran leader expected to use the occasion to outline the agenda for the remainder the year for his coalition government with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
Tue, Jul 13, 2010
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 committed to tackling poverty affecting more than 70 percent of the population.
Wed, Jul 14, 2010
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, signaling more problems ahead for Zimbabwe’s troubled constitutional reforms
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe cannot account for US$30 million earned from exports of its controversial Marange diamonds, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said on Wednesday, adding that future alluvial diamond mining would have to be done by or through the government to curb leakages.
Tue, Jul 20, 2010
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, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party said in a statement Monday.
Wed, Jul 21, 2010
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 how members of security forces have become rogues that regularly terrorise civilians. ( Picture: Looting a favourite common past time for the army)
Wed, Jul 21, 2010
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.
Mon, Jul 26, 2010
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.
Wed, Aug 04, 2010
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 at the height of the country’s economic crisis.
Thu, Aug 05, 2010
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 the Southern African Development Community meeting in Namibia.
Wed, Aug 11, 2010
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 a national healing process underway would not penalise offenders but will work to avoid future conflict, analysts said.
Thu, Aug 12, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s troubled constitutional reforms ground to a halt on Wednesday after running out of cash, a senior official confirmed last night.
Fri, Aug 13, 2010
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.
Mon, Aug 16, 2010
HARARE – President Jacob Zuma is hoping Zimbabwe’s three governing parties will have resolved all outstanding differences holding back their coalition by year-end, a senior South African official said on Sunday.
Wed, Aug 25, 2010
HARARE -- The government has received US$30 million from Canadile and Mbada diamonds, the two firms currently operating in Marange fields.
Mon, Aug 30, 2010
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 as she seeks to have her kidnappers and torturers brought to justice. ( Picture:Jestina Mukoko humiliated and refused medication during her unlawful detention)
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe has cut short an exercise to solicit public views on a new governance charter because of funding problems, a special committee in charge of the constitutional reforms said on Wednesday.
Wed, Sep 08, 2010
HARARE – Kimberley Process (KP) monitor Abbey Chikane is expected in Zimbabwe tomorrow to approve the second sale of diamonds from Chiadzwa fields.
Sat, Sep 18, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe should first clean up the voters roll and implement proposed electoral reforms and ensure they have taken root before calling a new vote, the country’s elections body has said, appearing to rebuke political leaders who are calling for polls next year.
Mon, Sep 20, 2010
HARARE -- Air Zimbabwe had to make “special arrangements” to get pilots to fly President Robert Mugabe to the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York because the airline’s own pilots are on strike.
Wed, Sep 22, 2010
HARARE -- Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court on Tuesday postponed ruling on an application by controversial legislator Jonathan Moyo seeking to have the Speaker of the House of Assembly removed from his post.
Thu, Sep 30, 2010
HARARE -- The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) on Wednesday warned against rising human and union rights violations in Zimbabwe that it said could peak in the run-up to general elections expected next year.
Mon, Oct 18, 2010
HARARE – There are growing fears that Zimbabwe is headed for another bloodbath as Robert Mugabe pushes for elections next year – with or without a new and democratic Constitution seen as critical to ensuring that any new polls are bloodless.
Wed, Oct 27, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s constitutional committee said Tuesday it will push to have a referendum on a new constitution in early 2011 to pave way for adoption of the new charter before elections that President Robert Mugabe has said must take place by mid-next year.
Tue, Nov 09, 2010
HARARE – Civil society groups have urged Zimbabwe’s three governing political parties to jointly engage security commanders to reassure them about their future in return for guarantees that the military will not block the country’s democratic transition process.
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
HARARE – A Zimbabwe human rights lawyers’ group has written to the government to prosecute perpetrators of political violence or face a legal suit, but the country’s Attorney General Johannes Tomana yesterday dismissed the letter as political and trivial.
Wed, Nov 24, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has called for an inter-party political agreement on free and fair elections, repeating he will boycott polls held in an environment of violence and human rights abuses.
Tue, Mar 15, 2011
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai are today expected to discuss a widening crackdown by state security forces against the premier’s supporters threatening to split the troubled Harare coalition government.
Wed, Apr 06, 2011
HARARE – President Jacob Zuma is losing patience over Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe’s refusal to fully implement terms of the 2008 political pact he signed with his rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai but he may struggle to rally other regional leaders to take tougher action against the octogenarian leader, analysts said.
Tue, Apr 12, 2011
HARARE – A road-map being pushed by regional leaders in Zimbabwe ahead of the country’s next vote may not guarantee free and fair elections unless it clearly spells out measures to punish parties that break its provisions, political analysts said.
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
HARARE –A healthy looking President Robert Mugabe appeared in public for the first time on Tuesday since weekend reports suggesting he and his wife Grace had flown to Singapore to seek medical treatment.
Tue, May 24, 2011
HARARE — 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, analysts said as ZANU-PF seeks to hurry the country into elections this year before Mugabe’s health deteriorates.(Insert: Mugabe's swollen legs are a sign of some real terrible underlying health problems)
Tue, May 31, 2011
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, saying such a move was fraught with problems especially because of limited supply of the yellow metal.
Wed, Jun 01, 2011
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 on the African nation’s scandalously shambolic voters’ roll.
Fri, Jun 03, 2011
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 on Thursday.
Tue, Jul 26, 2011
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.
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