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Sure signs she's cheating on you
Fri, Apr 13, 2012
MARRIAGES often break down on account of husbands not being loyal to their wives.
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Zimbabwe: Mugabe, Zanu-PF Desperate As Time Runs Out - Analysts
Sun, Mar 18, 2012
AILING and ageing President Robert Mugabe is desperate to force an early election under the old Lancaster House Constitution which favours himself and Zanu PF against his political rivals, political analysts have said writes Caiphas Chimhete, in the Standard.
Alex Duval Smith: How Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe won over a nation – again
Fri, Mar 16, 2012
He may face opprobrium abroad, but at home President Robert Mugabe has soared back to popularity thanks to a campaign to turn over white-owned companies to black Zimbabweans. A crusading indigenisation programme – the corporate version of the farm invasions a decade ago – on Tuesday netted its juiciest prey yet when the world's second-largest platinum miner, Impala, agreed to cede 51 per cent of its Zimbabwean arm, Zimplats.
New Zimbabwean Constitution not a Panacea for Free and Fair Polls
Fri, Mar 16, 2012
BA new constitution for Zimbabwe is only one step in a series of fundamental reforms that are needed before Zimbabwe can hold elections writes DEWA MAVHINGA
Zimbabwe NGO ban exposes Mugabe hypocrisy
Mon, Mar 12, 2012
When someone is in their late 80s they have a tendency to forget certain fundamentals of how society is organised due to old age, yet there are some things that define the social and political order which people should hold dear writes Pedzisayi Ruhanya.
Mnangagwa anointment Mugabe's successor by Chinese Generals
Fri, Mar 09, 2012
HARARE - Chinese military generals visiting Zimbabwe have effectively stitched-up a bloodless Palace coup and enmeshed themselves in ZanuPF succession by anointing the Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa successor to Mugabe in an a secret pact rubber-stamped by the ageing leader and his security service chiefs, high level sources revealed reports Sokwanele.
Honor women by naming and shaming Zimbabwe
Thu, Mar 08, 2012
Here in Geneva, at the Human Rights Council, on International Women’s Day, I have a case I want to make. It’s about Zimbabwe. It should have been made by the United Nations, but it hasn’t been made by the United Nations. Frankly, that’s unforgiveable.
Zimbabwe - last to leave, Never Mind Turning Off the Lights - They're Already off
Thu, Mar 08, 2012
In the 32 years of his benighted rule, Zimbabwe's President Robert Gabriel Mugabe has done more damage to the country than its white-led minority government ever did.
Mugabe No Longer Has Friends, His Intellectuals Are Misfiring
Wed, Mar 07, 2012
A report yesterday in which Jonathan Moyo reportedly told the South African Minister of International Co-operation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, to "shut-up" about the holding of free and fair elections in Zimbabwe exposes how Jonathan Moyo and Zanu (PF) have now reached the end of their pretensions at rational argument writes Makusha Mugabe.
Zanu-PF and China - Does Zimbabwe Really 'Yearn for the Yuan?'
Mon, Mar 05, 2012
Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono's proposal in November to peg a new Zimbabwean dollar to the Chinese yuan made a splash of headlines.
David Blair:Zimbabwe: how UK aid profligacy
Mon, Feb 20, 2012
As Robert Mugabe turns 88, David Blair asks if our aid to Zimbabwe is funding the dictator’s excesses
Khadija Sharife:Toilet capitalism: A Zimbabwean basket case
Mon, Feb 20, 2012
The restaurateur-cook-waitress looked more like a grandmother than mother, shrunken with poverty. Scarf tied around her simple but sweet face. Tired but with a smile and outspread, work-worn hands, one felt the urge to give her a hug, and tuck her into bed, rather than giving 'Mama' an order for several plates piled high with steak and sadza (maize meal) at nearly midnight.
Better Zimbabwe, not past Malawi
Sun, Feb 19, 2012
I n an interview with the Guardian newspaper of the UK, President Bingu wa Mutharika bullishly said Malawi would never go the route of Zimbabwe because, among other things, no country in sub-Saharan Africa is as free as Malawi, where citizens call the president names without running the risk of arrest writes Chachacha Munthali
Home Opinion Commentaries Zimbabwe's Mugabe: Worst of the worst in the world order
Thu, Feb 16, 2012
No leader has harmed his nation more.
Zimbabwe sanctions are not only short sighted but unstrategic - Ncube
Thu, Feb 16, 2012
Sanctions as a strategy to bring about political change in Zimbabwe in my opinion are not only short sighted but unstrategic and self defeating writes Welshman Ncube of MDC.
ZIMBABWE: Deportations rob vulnerable of remittances
Fri, Feb 10, 2012
HARARE, (IRIN) - Thousands of Zimbabwean households are feeling the effects of lost remittances from family members forcibly returned from neighbouring South Africa since that country resumed deportations of undocumented Zimbabwean migrants in October 2011.
Zimbabwe: Under the Carpet
Fri, Feb 10, 2012
President Robert Mugabe this week hastily swept under the carpet his ongoing conflict with his partners in Zimbabwe's three-party government - apparently to head off a tongue-lashing during a scheduled late-February meeting with SADC facilitator and South African President Jacob Zuma.
Broadening security sector reform debate in Zimbabwe
Mon, Feb 06, 2012
THE issue of the interference of the security sector into politics which is not only symbolized by unprofessional political utterances and declarations by heads of security sectors of the country but also by the physical intervention of regular and non-regular forces including green bombers and war veterans in various acts of violation of human rights, has ignited animated debates on security sector reform in Zimbabwe. Now that the employment contracts of some of key members of security sector including that of the police commissioner are up for renewal, the debate on security sector reform has intensified but in a wrong direction.
Don't underestimate 'rising star' Ncube
Sun, Feb 05, 2012
A year after Welshman Ncube assumed the presidency of the smaller Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party from Arthur Mutambara, there is no sign of complacency in the man.
Mugabe’s AU rant ‘Panic attack’ - Analysts
Thu, Feb 02, 2012
Robert Mugabe’s reported rant against the African Union (AU) and its handling of the crisis in Libya last year, is a sign that the ageing leader is ‘panicked’.
