Wed, Feb 10, 2010
JOHANNESBURG: The specified Kingdom Meikles Africa shareholder has said he will be going to Zimbabwe soon after being invited by the Minister of Home Affairs.
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by Special correspondent
Tue, Feb 09, 2010
Zimbabwe was opening up its doors to investors for its energy sector, Minister of Energy and Power Development Elias Mudzuri said on Tuesday, adding that it was also considering offering potential tax holidays for those investors willing to participate in the development of large power projects in the country.
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by Bloomberg
Tue, Feb 09, 2010
Harare - White business executives in Zimbabwe will be forced to ensure that blacks have a 51-per-cent controlling interest in their companies within the next five years, according to a draconian new law published Tuesday.
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Fri, Feb 05, 2010
BRITAIN on Friday said it supported the restoration of Zimbabwe’s voting rights at the International Monetary Fund while noting the “recent improvement in the macroeconomic management” of Zimbabwe’s economy under Finance Minister Tendai Biti.
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Thu, Feb 04, 2010
Harare — A CONSORTIUM of local businesspeople has secured a three-year lease of the former Terreskane or Bira at the corner of Sam Nujoma Street and Fife Avenue in a move that is set to breathe new lease of life as an upmarket hotel.
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by Staff reporter and agencies
Wed, Feb 10, 2010
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe was currently in closed discussions with relevant authorities to finalise the indigenisation and empowerment quota for the mining industry, in terms of that country’s new Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment regulations, midtier miner Aquarius Platinum said on Wednesday.
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by Bloomberg
Tue, Feb 09, 2010
(Bloomberg) -- Zimbabwe is facing corn and wheat shortages after a prolonged period of dry weather, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service said in a report.
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Sun, Feb 07, 2010
Zimbabwe's minister of mines Obert Mpofu kept a straight face at the Mining Indaba in Cape Town this week when he said foreign investors in his country's mining industry are "guaranteed security of tenure". It was not clear who was providing the guarantees.
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by Jane Fields - New Scotsman
Sun, Feb 07, 2010
PLANELOADS of diamonds mined in Zimbabwe's violence-riddled eastern Chiadzwa diamond fields are being secretly airlifted to Harare.
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by Zimonline
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.
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Sun, Feb 07, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwean officials are unhappy that CITES chief Willem Wijnstekers will tour a top private game conservancy during his visit to Zimbabwe next week, apparently fearful he will end up learning too much about wanton poaching decimating the country’s wildlife, sources told ZimOnline.
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by VOA
Thu, Feb 11, 2010
Kiglon managers say prohibitive costs will force the team to drop out of the Premier Soccer League schedule if it does not receive funding from corporate sponsors through league mechanisms
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Fri, Feb 05, 2010
John Terry has been stripped of the England captaincy.
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by Oliver Farirayi
Mon, Jul 26, 2010
Below is the full audio recording of the Deputy Prime minister's speech and question and answer in London to Zimbabweans in Diaspora on 24/08/2010
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Fri, Aug 20, 2010
China's Xinhua News Agency has erected a giant screen in Harare's First Street. (NewsDay)
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Wed, Aug 11, 2010
A government minister in Swaziland has resigned amid rumours that he had an affair with one of the 14 wives of King Mswati III.
Ndumiso Mamba, the justice minister and childhood friend of Mswati, stepped down as the sex scandal rocked the tiny African kingdom.A pro-democracy group, Swaziland Solidarity Network, alleged last week that Mamba had been having an affair with 23-year-old Inkhosikati LaDube, the 12th wife of the king.It has been claimed that LaDube wore an elaborate disguise so she could enjoy clandestine meetings with Mamba. The queen is said to have dressed in military fatigues to leave the royal palace without arousing suspicion.
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Tue, Jul 27, 2010
Taking you back in time with all the buses that transported millions of Britons across the island
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Tue, Jul 27, 2010
24 th August Address by Deputy Prime minister Mutambara. London UK
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Sat, Aug 07, 2010
Bedlam broke out mid-game in the Paraguayan Primera B when one player tried to strangle the referee.As local sides Rangers and Deportes Concepcíon battled it out, Rangers' Jose Perdroso felt more than a touch aggrieved when he was penalised for a violent challenge that proved enough to earn him his second yellow card.
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by Daily Mail
Thu, Aug 05, 2010
Two policemen were suspended after a disabled pensioner claimed he was left terrified by officers who smashed his car window after catching him driving without a seatbelt.When stroke victim Robert Whatley, 70, was pulled over in his Range Rover, he expected a brief discussion with the officers.
But he claims he was forced to cover his face and was showered with glass as one officer jumped on to the bonnet and kicked his windscreen while another repeatedly attacked the window with a baton.
The ensuing action was caught on film by a police camera placed on the patrol car's dashboard.
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by Special correspondent
Thu, Aug 05, 2010
The British model, who lives in New York, gave cool and self-assured testimony after being summoned as a prosecution witness at a UN war crimes court in The Hague.
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