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Thu, Feb 18, 2010
JOHANNESBURG – South African authorities have confiscated over 5,000 fraudulently-acquired passports from Zimbabweans reports the Zimbabwean.
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600 Zim teachers bridge the gap
Wed, Feb 17, 2010
THE South African LIMPOPO department of education said yesterday that it had contracted about 600 teachers from Zimbabwe to cope with the shortage of science, mathematics, commerce and technology teachers in the province.
US Delegation To Assess New Unity Government Agreement
Tue, Feb 16, 2010
Harare, - A five-member congressional delegation of the U.S. House of Representatives will visit Zimbabwe on Thursday to assess progress in the implementation of the Global Political Agreement (GPA), economic reforms and visit U.S. funded humanitarian assistance projects.
Two Killed in Accident Involving MDC-T MP
Tue, Feb 16, 2010
Harare — Two people died on the spot while eight others were injured when an Isuzu KB truck being driven by Hwange Central legislator Mr Brian Tshuma (MDC-T) overturned along the Harare-Bulawayo Road yesterday afternoon.
Representatives of Zimbabwean Civil Servants Charge Intimidation Over Strike
Tue, Feb 16, 2010
Public Service Association Executive Secretary Emmanuel Tichareva said government department heads in Harare and elsewhere have been taking down the names of those who fail to show up for work, leading some of the striking employees to return
Zimbabwean Ministers Urge Exiled Businessmen to Return Home
Tue, Feb 16, 2010
Two senior cabinet ministers encourage successful entrepreneurs in neighboring South Africa to help revive moribund economy reports VOA
Jonathan Moyo left out in the cold
Sun, Feb 14, 2010
Harare, - Political turncoat Jonathan Moyo’s quest to rise in the Zanu PF power hierarchy hit a brick wall Friday when the central committee blocked his appointment to the party’s highest decision - making body politburo.
WOZA and MOZA march in Harare to mark Valentine’s Day
Sun, Feb 14, 2010
AT noon on sunday 700 members of Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise marched through central Harare to the offices of the state-owned Herald newspaper, handing out Valentine cards, red roses and abbreviated copies of WOZA’s report on the state of democracy in Zimbabwe
EU extends Zimbabwe targeted sanctions by another year
Sun, Feb 14, 2010
Harare The committee of permanent representatives from European Union member countries has decided to extend the targeted sanctions against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and more than 200 officials from his party.
Zimbabwe militants call for chicken restaurant ban
Tue, Nov 29, 2011
STATE radio says a militant youth group loyal to the president is calling for a boycott of a restaurant chain whose latest advertising depicts Zimbabwe's leader as "the last dictator standing".
Zimbabwe's new constitution delayed until 2011
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
Harare - The process of drafting a new Zimbabwean constitution has been further delayed, meaning the country's new charter is now running seven months behind schedule. A co-leader of parliament's constitutional committee Munyaradzi- Paul Mangwana told journalists in Harare late Tuesday that Zimbabwe would not have a new constitution before February 2011 at the earliest
Death rate said down in Zimbabwe prisons
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
HARARE, -- Overcrowding has been eliminated at prisons in Zimbabwe and the death rate has dropped by 93 percent, a government minister announced.
Striking Zimbabwe Civil Servants Return to Harare Gardens to Map Way Forward
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Chairwoman Tendayi Chikowore of the Apex negotiating panel for public workers told VOA that there is no end to the strike in sight as the government has not been engaging unions and other public service representatives
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.
Zimbabwe sanctions 'must go': Mugabe
Wed, Feb 17, 2010
HARARE — President Robert Mugabe said Wednesday that he and his partners in Zimbabwe's unity government agreed that "sanctions must go", a day after the European Union extended its restrictions on the country.
ROHR Zimbabwe News Alert
Tue, Feb 16, 2010
Godfrey Chimombe, MDC provincial vice chairman for Mashonaland Central was arrested on Saturday 13th of February around 0900hours by detective Tariro of Bindura Law and Order section for allegedly insulting the president on a political rally.
WOZA issues report on 'democratizing Zimbabwe'
Tue, Feb 16, 2010
A leading pressure group, Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), has issued a report on 'the state of democracy in Zimbabwe', highli ghting views of some 11,000 of its members in one year, following the formation of the unity government in the Southern African nation, PANA reported Monday.
Zimbabwe Cabinet Showdown Looms
Tue, Feb 16, 2010
Harare, February 15, 2010 - A major showdown is looming in Zimbabwe’s troubled inclusive government, as it has emerged that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is preparing to tackle President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF head on in Cabinet over the recent gazetting of a new Statutory Instrument on indigenisation
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.
Chombo shields corrupt councilors
Mon, Feb 15, 2010
HARARE - Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo has moved to protect 23 MDC-T councillors in Chitungwiza who were sacked by their party last Thursday over corruption allegations.
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.
Outrage over arrests of The Zimbabwean staff
Sun, Feb 14, 2010
MEDIA groups have described the arrest last week of distributors of The Zimbabwean newspaper as demonstration of the unity government’s insincerity about media reforms.
Zanu PF, MDC-T talk tough as talks resume
Sun, Feb 14, 2010
THE inter-party talks between the three governing parties are set to resume in Harare tomorrow, with Zanu PF and the MDC led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai still stuck in their parallel positions.
Divisions rock striking civil servants
Sun, Feb 14, 2010
THE Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) yesterday threatened to withdraw its support for the week-long civil servants’ strike saying the job boycott was turning political.
Brain drain bites, academics strike
Sun, Feb 14, 2010
Science departments in Zimbabwe's universities have been hardest hit by a brain drain that has been blamed mostly on poor salaries. Last week low pay prompted lectures at all state-run higher education institutions go on strike as part of wider civil service industrial action.
War Vets Dig Up Great Zimbabwe Ruins
Sun, Feb 14, 2010
Masvingo, - Riot police had running battles with Robert Mugabe's war veterans on Friday night who were digging up one of the world's historical monuments, The Zimbabwe Ruins, to exhume remains of bodies of fighters of the liberation struggle, which they said had been buried there.
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 .
Elections chief to operate from Namibia
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.
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
