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Hopeless: Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children highlighted the plight of the country's young people who often live without hope, education and food thanks to Mugabe's evil regime. -BBC An honest messenger with a bad message. Brown refused to remove targeted sanctions against Bob and his gangsters
Zim's forgotten kids
Zuma scores own goal: Still no end in sight for sanctions
Fri, Jan 15, 2010
MAPUTO - Key southern African leaders wound up a special summit in the Mozambican capital Maputo on Thursday with calls for a return to dialogue in the ongoing political crisis in Madagascar.
Wed, Jan 13, 2010
Harare - The prosecution's star witness in the trial of Roy Bennett, Zimbabwe's junior agriculture minister-designate, for terrorism and insurgency, on Wednesday failed in his bid to secure time to seek legal advice. Prosecutors allege arms dealer Michael Hitschmann was paid by Bennett to buy weapons to assassinate government officials.
Tue, Jan 12, 2010
HARARE - Zimbabwe's attorney general said on Tuesday the state would move to have its key witness in the terrorism trial of an ally of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai impeached for giving contradicting evidence.
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.
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.
Wed, Jan 13, 2010
SPRINGBOK prop forward Beast Mtawarira will be staying and playing his rugby in Durban this year.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Tue, Jan 05, 2010
MANICA, - Without a four-wheel drive, Manica's potholed dirt roads are a challenge, but thanks to a steady stream of illicit diamonds from neighbouring Zimbabwe, more and more people in the impoverished town in western Mozambique can afford one.
Mon, Jan 04, 2010
A Zimbawean MP warned this week that the country's tenuous political accord would unravel within weeks if President Jacob Zuma did not intervene decisively to force its implementation.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Old hospital equipment is helping to save lives in Zimbabwe, thanks to two life-long Preston pals.
Thu, Jan 07, 2010
A review of Zimbabwe's Constitution is now being rolled calling for the participation of all Zimbabweans in crafting a historic document for the present and future generations. The controverses about the "Kariba Draft" appeared to hve been watered down in the interests of progress. Local and donor resources have been pledged to ensure the successfull implementation of the consulation exercise in Zimbabwe in the next 65 days or so.
Mon, Jan 04, 2010
On Thursday, December 3, 2009 while in Cape Town, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai called on global Zimbabwe community to help rebuild their country. He did not, however, ask that sanctions be lifted writes Isaac Hlekisani Dziya.
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.
Mon, Jan 11, 2010
HARARE - The new regime in Harare risks tracing the footsteps of the previous Zanu (PF)-controlled administration, with a London-based think-tank expressing misgivings about the credibility of and inconsistencies in some of the economic programmes pursued by the coalition government.
Wed, Jan 06, 2010
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe (EWZ) has emerged as the country’s leading cellular telephone operating company in the country. Information made available by the company shows it has a subscriber base that exceeds 3 million subscribers in Zimbabwe.
Wed, Jan 06, 2010
Counterfeit United States Dollars are in huge calculation in most African countries as hardly a month passes by without arrests. Tuesday morning, both Zambian and Zimbabwean authorities announced arrests involving huge sums of counterfeit notes.
Wed, Jan 06, 2010
Foreign investors can own up to 100 percent shareholding of their companies, depending on the merit of their proposals, a Zimbabwean cabinet minister said on Wednesday.
Tue, Jan 05, 2010
Zimbabwe has been flooded by a relatively new cellphone brand called the G Tide. Most cellular phone dealers in the capital Harare, as well as in Bulawayo have stocked the brand, selling at half the price of a Nokia phone.
Tue, Jan 05, 2010
Harare, - The European Union (EU) next month will meet to revise targeted sanctions and travel restrictions on President Robert Mugabe and his cronies in line with how the unity government has been implementing outstanding issues in the Global Political Agreement (GPA), a senior diplomat said Monday reports Radio VOP.
Mon, Jan 04, 2010
Harare — GOVERNMENT has earmarked part of the US$510 million International Monetary Funds to bail out strategic distressed companies, Finance Minster Tendai Biti has said.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
A Nestle spokeswoman said Industry Minister Welshman Ncube gave the multinational a written assurance that the government will see to the security of staff and prevent interference in Nestlé's activities reports VOA.
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
The courts will work closely with the Anti-Corruption Commission in an effort to curb fraud, graft and other forms of corruption, according to an economic blueprint issued last week by Finance Minister Tendai Biti
Wed, Jan 13, 2010
Many Zimbabwean farmers face the risk of another poor maize season due to widespread shortages of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, a key input.Agriculture Minister Joseph Made told the state-controlled Herald newspaper in a report published Tuesday that the government was scaling up imports of fertilizer from Zambia, Malawi and South Africa
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.
Wed, Jan 13, 2010
PM Tsvangirai's party said the divisive issue of continuing takeovers of white-owned commercial farms under the guise of land reform might be added to the other outstanding issues under discussion in Harare reports VOA
Tue, Jan 12, 2010
Gold production in Zimbabwe jumped 35% in 2009 to 4.2 tonnes the country's chamber of mines said yesterday. This may seem a big increase but it is still only a fraction of the country's peak output of around 30 tonnes a year. Indeed Zimbabwe produced as much as 27 tonnes of gold as recently as 1999 and has the geological potential perhaps to exceed its old peaks given ideal domestic political and economic circumstances, which still seem as far off as ever.
Tue, Jan 12, 2010
Johannesburg - The civil rights movement AfriForum will launch an urgent bid at the North Gauteng Supreme Court to cite the Zimbabwean government as a party to a court application against the country.
Thu, Jan 07, 2010
Zimbabwe's government on Thursday halted the sale of diamonds from its controversial Marange fields, saying the process would only go ahead under international supervision.
Wed, Jan 06, 2010
MBANDA Diamonds Mining, a company authorized by government to mine diamonds in Chiadza, has announced that over 300 000 carats of diamonds will go on sale Thursday at the newly converted diamond processing facility at the Harare International Airport reports Radio VOP.
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
HARARE — Zimbabwe is considering mortgaging its mineral wealth to offset the country's 5.4 billion dollar debt owed to multilateral donor agencies, a government report says.
Tue, Jan 12, 2010
Cholera claimed more than 4,200 lives in Zimbabwe from late 2008 through mid-2009 as an epidemic raced out of control due to a widespread lack of clean water and the virtual collapse of the state health care system reports VOA.
Mon, Jan 04, 2010
Being infected with HIV will no longer be an "ineligibility" when foreign citizens apply for visas to travel to the United States, the US embassy in South Africa said.
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
According to Zimbabwe state media, there have been 22-deaths, mainly of children under five, due to a measles outbreak, which two weeks ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) had called deeply frustrating, coming right after the sponsoring of a vaccination programme in the African country.
Mon, Jan 11, 2010
APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) Nigeria’s Under-20 women’s football team humiliated Zimbabwe on Sunday following an emphatic 7-0 drubbing of the southern African nation in the first leg of the second round qualifying match for the women’s World Cup scheduled for Germany later this year.
Mon, Jan 11, 2010
Zimbabwe is talking to South African companies to assist in erection of giant screens in remote areas to screen live and delayed matches of the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament that kicks off in June.
Tue, Jan 05, 2010
Pompey insist they haven't given up hope of recruiting forgotten man Onismor Bhasera.
Tue, Jan 05, 2010
JACQUES Kallis, Mark Boucher and Dale Steyn yesterday gave home supporters much to smile about on a day that started with a bitter taste when veteran bowler Makhaya Ntini failed to appear on the ground for prematch warm-ups, having been told of his omission from the starting XI the evening before.
Mon, Jan 04, 2010
Football - Zimbabwean football clubs, eager to break into the big league of the sport in Africa, are breaking with tradition and searching for talent on the wider African continent.
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
Zimbabwe Cricket has begun the process of making a long-term appointment as national coach which becomes vacant when Walter Chawaguta's contract expires at the end of the year.
Mon, Jan 11, 2010
CORINNA, Maine — Any way you look at it, Zimbabwe and central Maine could hardly be farther apart.
Mon, Jan 04, 2010
The leader of the Christian Democratic Party has described President Jacob Zuma's traditional wedding on Monday as a "giant step back into the dark ages".
Mon, Jan 04, 2010
THE Archbishop of York has appealed to people to shun the BNP at the General Election and called for an England victory at the World Cup.
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
THE Archbishops of Canterbury and York have protested against a resurgence of police intimidation that caused Anglicans in Zimbabwe to be locked out of their churches at Christmas.
Mon, Jan 04, 2010
AN ex-mayor today admitted breaking into women's homes and stealing their underwear.
Tue, Jan 05, 2010
As Zimbabwe's economy picked up last year, so did its telecommunications sector, a government study released Monday shows. It said more than four million people were connected to a telephone service, mainly mobile, at the end of 2009, compared to just one million at the start of the year.
Tue, Jan 05, 2010
A Chinese computer Operating System has invaded the Zimbabwean market and it is selling way cheaper than what some IT specialists call its original.
Mon, Jan 04, 2010
Zimbabwe’s technological sector is set to improve in the next five years, significantly altering all spheres of life in the country, a foreign venture capital company has said.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Hwange - Zimbabwe's already dim electricity supply faces a new threat, as the country's main power plant says it needs to dig for new coal reserves under a river inside a national park to keep running.
Mon, Jan 11, 2010
HARARE – Harare socialite and leading political commentator Olley Maruma has died. He was 57 years of age.
Thu, Jan 14, 2010
Zimbabwe leader, President Mugabe, is reportedly pushing for his military intervention in Madagascar to topple its president - Andry Rajoelina.
Wed, Jan 13, 2010
HARARE, -- The refusal by Zimbabwe's teachers to work on the first day of the school year on Tuesday is just but a tip of the iceberg with regards to the labor problems dogging the country and the pressure the government has to endure.
Wed, Jan 13, 2010
The North Gauteng Supreme Court in Pretoria this afternoon granted permission to three Zimbabwean farmers, represented by AfriForum, to start with a legal process against the Government of Zimbabwe. This legal process entails having the ruling of the Southern African Development Community (SADEC) registered and enforced in South Africa.
Wed, Jan 13, 2010
MAPUTO — Key Southern African leaders will hold a special summit Thursday in Mozambique's capital Maputo to discuss the crisis in Madagascar and the power-sharing government in Zimbabwe, officials said.
Tue, Jan 12, 2010
JOHANNESBURG - Three Zimbabwe farm owners who have been violently ousted from their farms are seeking to enforce their rights in terms of SA Development Community (SADC) Tribunal rulings through a South African court.
Tue, Jan 12, 2010
India on Monday joined Botswana in stressing the need for “credible elections” in Zimbabwe, which has been under severe criticism from the international community for the political crisis following the disputable elections of 2008. The issue came up for discussion when Vice-President Hamid Ansari called on Botswana President Seretse Khama Ian Khama.
Mon, Jan 11, 2010
A British mining company has warned Interpol that it believes that the Zimbabwean Government is preparing to sell stolen diamonds reports UK's Times Online.
Mon, Jan 11, 2010
Zimbabwe’s liberation fighters have declared that they are entitled to a 20 per cent share of any resource in the country saying they are the poorest lot in the southern African nation.
Wed, Jan 06, 2010
Gaberone - Botswana and Zimbabwe concluded a deal on Friday that will result in the revival of the moribund Bulawayo Power station by June 2010.
Wed, Jan 06, 2010
HARARE-- The year 2010 is a very special one for China and Zimbabwe because not only will Zimbabwe be celebrating her 30th anniversary of independence, but the two countries will also be marking 30 years of diplomatic relations, Chinese ambassador to Zimbabwe Xin Shunkang said on Wednesday
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 05, 2010
A NURSE plundered the public purse of £44,000 in benefits after working in two Leeds care homes – while claiming she was too sick to walk properly.
Tue, Jan 05, 2010
Harare, - The European Union (EU) next month will meet to revise targeted sanctions and travel restrictions on President Robert Mugabe and his cronies in line with how the unity government has been implementing outstanding issues in the Global Political Agreement (GPA), a senior diplomat said Monday reports Radio VOP.
Tue, Jan 05, 2010
Nestlé has resumed its operations in Zimbabwe following the suspension of its activities last month over a dispute on buying milk from suppliers linked to the wife of President Robert Mugabe.
Mon, Jan 04, 2010
Negotiations on outstanding issues to Zimbabwe's Global Political Agreement (GPA) which have been on hold during the festive season will begin in two weeks time, an official has said.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
The British office of Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change has been suspended amid allegations of financial irregularities in overseas branches reports the UK Daily Telegraph
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
A CIVIL rights group has warned the South African government that unless it acts to protect citizens in Zimbabwe evicted from their farm on Christmas Eve it will seek an enforcement order from the courts.
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
China has agreed to fund the construction of Zimbabwe’s new Parliament building in the capital Harare, a cabinet minister said here Wednesday.
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom on Thursday named two leaders of Zimbabwean charities among the list of 72 prominent individuals for their contribution to human development in the UK and other countries.
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
The state-run Herald newspaper reported that Industry Minister Welshman Ncube said international media pressured Nestlé to terminate a supplier relationship with a dairy company controlled by the family of President Robert Mugabe reports VOA.
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
NAIROBI -- When Gallup asked Zimbabweans in July 2009 what they believed was the biggest obstacle for their power-sharing government to overcome, nearly 4 in 10 (39%) spontaneously mentioned a lack of trust and confidence. More than one in five (22%) cited a lack of political will to implement reforms, and a similar proportion (19%) cited refusals by the president and prime minister to work together. It is that last problem, however, that best characterizes Zimbabwe's political situation since the coalition government formed in February.
Fri, Jan 15, 2010
Four cabinet ministers in Zimbabwe’s inclusive government are under probe from their respective parties, MDC and Zanu Pf, on corruption allegations.
Wed, Jan 13, 2010
A Harare training session for outreach workers was disrupted by war veterans singing revolutionary songs and demonstrating despite instructions from organizers not to engage in partisan displays
Wed, Jan 13, 2010
Over 12 students who had their government scholarships withdrawn by ZANU PF officials have slammed Fort Hare University in South Africa for allowing them to be victimized.
Tue, Jan 12, 2010
APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) Multinational Swiss food giant Nestle on Tuesday sought to allay fears that it had resumed purchasing “blood milk” from a farm owned by the wife of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, insisting that it was maintaining its stance of sourcing milk “exclusively from contracted farmers.”
Tue, Jan 12, 2010
The British government is set to come under pressure to lead the way in Europe, by not sending developmental aid to the coalition government until the full implementation of the Global Political Agreement.
Tue, Jan 12, 2010
The British government is set to come under pressure to lead the way in Europe, by not sending developmental aid to the coalition government until the full implementation of the Global Political Agreement.
Mon, Jan 11, 2010
ZANU PF's women's league leader, Oppah Muchinguri, tried to block Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Didymus Mutasa from violently taking over one of the most productive farms in Manicaland in what is seen as widening divisions in the party over the continuing land invasions.
Mon, Jan 11, 2010
SOUTHERN African leaders were “unhappy” with the slow pace of negotiations aimed at ending the political crisis in Zimbabwe, a regional defence and security committee official said on Friday.
Thu, Jan 07, 2010
Toll gates in place on Zimbabwean highways for five months now are bringing in US$350,000 a month or some US$1.4 million a month, but motorists say the major roadways continue to be littered with hazardous potholes
Tue, Jan 05, 2010
Harare - Zimbabwe's political rivals have agreed some outstanding issues of a power-sharing deal, but the pace of negotiations is slow, a South African official mediating in the talks said on Tuesday.
Tue, Jan 05, 2010
Masvingo, - A leading teachers' representative body has threatened industrial action ahead of the schools opening on January 12, to force government to award them salaries above the Poverty Datum Line (PDL).
Tue, Jan 05, 2010
The process to rewrite Zimbabwe's constitution has formally begun today. The measure was included in the political accord undersigned in the political accord allowing for the formation of the national unity government made up by three parties last year.
Mon, Jan 04, 2010
Dozens of Zimbabwean travellers trying to enter South Africa at the Beitbridge Border Post have reportedly had their passports confiscated.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
HARARE, Iran has said it is ready to offer humanitarian assistance to Zimbabwe in times of need and develop to the highest level cordial relations between the two nations.
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
A FARMER'S daughter from Zimbabwe who came to work in Morley two years ago has been granted asylum. An immigration judge decided Erica Coetzee, 22, should be allowed to stay because her life would be in danger if she was deported to Zimbabwe.
Thu, Jan 14, 2010
Cape Town has reopened its beaches which were closed after a Zimbabwean man was killed by a great white shark off the South African coast.
Wed, Jan 13, 2010
THE MAN whose name was attached to a media statement calling for the repatriation of Zimbabwean University of Fort Hare graduates has described the letter as a “hoax”.
Mon, Jan 04, 2010
Nkandla - South Africa's political and business elite as well as hundreds of villagers in traditional dress gathered on Monday in President Jacob Zuma's remote home village for his fifth wedding.
Mon, Jan 04, 2010
Soaring high above the clouds and thrusting proudly towards the heavens stands the Burj Dubai.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
London - Margaret Thatcher banned her envoy to what was then Rhodesia from meeting Robert Mugabe in 1979, refusing to talk "with terrorists until they become prime ministers," files released on Wednesday showed.
Thu, Jan 14, 2010
A Zimbabwe-born therapist sexually molested four women while he massaged them at a top health spa, a jury heard yesterday.
Wed, Jan 06, 2010
The parents of an 11-month-old boy, who they claimed had been hit by a brick while standing on the balcony of a Hillbrow flat, were arrested and charged with perjury on Tuesday, police said.
Wed, Jan 06, 2010
Harare — POLICE have expressed concern over the increase in rape cases with 37 cases reported in Harare last month alone.
Tue, Jan 05, 2010
Three of the six men who robbed a Zimbabwean bank of US$270,000 last week were South Africans, the local media reported Tuesday.
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