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.
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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.
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by Zimonline
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.
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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.
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by IT News Africa
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.
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by Staff reporter and agencies
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.
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by XINUA
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.
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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.
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by Radio VOP
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.
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by The Herald
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.
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by VOA
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.
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by 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
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by VOA
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
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by Zimonline
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.
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by VOA
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
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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.
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by SAPA
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.
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by Staff reporter and agencies
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.
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by Radio VOP
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.
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by AFP
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.
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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.
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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.
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by Staff Reporter
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.
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by PANA
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.
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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.
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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.
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by SAPA
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.
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Mon, Jan 11, 2010
CORINNA, Maine — Any way you look at it, Zimbabwe and central Maine could hardly be farther apart.
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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".
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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.
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by Staff reporter and agencies
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.
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Mon, Jan 04, 2010
AN ex-mayor today admitted breaking into women's homes and stealing their underwear.
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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.
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by Staff reporter and agencies
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.
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by BusinessDay
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.
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by PANA
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.
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by Cricinfo
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.
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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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Mon, Jul 26, 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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