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Zimbabwe: Early Zanu-PF campaign jingles ’alienate voters’
Mon, Jul 26, 2010
Propaganda songs praising President Mugabe have re-surfaced on Zimbabwe’s heavily state controlled radio and television and are causing a storm in the political circles.
Parliament and Politics
Gallery: Talking Point: Is Mugabe still in good shape to be president?
Fri, Aug 13, 2010
Mugabe is now shadow of the president who used to deliver thought - provoking speeches and would transcend all corners of the country with such enthusiasm and energy even his bodyguards struggled to keep up with his energetic and quick movements.
Tsvangirai to address a 'star' rally in Hwange
Fri, Jul 30, 2010
Zimbabwe Prime Minister President Morgan Tsvangirai will on Saturday present an overview of the performance of the inclusive government to party supporters in the mining town of Hwange, more than 300 km northwest of Zimbabwe's second largest city of Bulawayo. ( File Picture: Tsvangirai draws big crowds of supporters at MDC rallies)
Robert Mugabe cannot stop jingles - Makumbe
Tue, Jul 27, 2010
HARARE - John Makumbe, a leading political scientist, has said President Robert Mugabe is powerless to stop the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings (ZBH) from playing jingles that have created divisions in the inclusive government because the country’s security chiefs now control power.
Zimbabwe falls off AU agenda
Tue, Jul 27, 2010
HARARE - Heads of state and government of the African Union have dashed hopes that they would take President Robert Mugabe to task for his contemptuous flouting of the global political agreement that formed the troubled coalition government.
More confusion over Zim next polls
Mon, Jul 26, 2010
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has said it needs at least a year to clean up the existing voters’ roll, adding to the intrigue surrounding the holding of the country’s next general elections.
Adversaries discuss national healing
Fri, Jul 23, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s three governing political parties met in Harare on Wednesday to discuss ways to end political violence and speed up a progamme to promote reconciliation and national healing.
US Ambassador to Zimbabwe Says Not Enough Progress Implementing Unity Deal
Wed, Jul 21, 2010
Ambassador Charles Ray said the United States is ready to lift travel and financial sanctions on President Robert Mugabe and supporters once the 2008 agreement for power sharing in Harare has been fully implemented
Retired Lt. Gen. Peter Walls dies in exile in South Africa
Wed, Jul 21, 2010
JOHANNESBURG -- A veterans' group says the last white commander of forces that opposed the guerrilla armies that swept Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to power has died.
Mugabe should not have been part of new government- political scientists
Tue, Jul 20, 2010
VUMBA – Local political scientists meeting here last week said President Robert Mugabe should not have been part of the unity government because he lost the 2008 elections. (Picture: Computer graphics , what Mugabe might look like at the end of another term in office in 2017)
Get real, the war is over VP Nkomo tells ZANU PF
Tue, Jul 20, 2010
Vice President John Nkomo's comments did not seem likely to be popular in a party that has defined itself as a bulwark against imperialism and neo-colonialism
Zimbabwean legislators to go on pay strike
Tue, Jul 20, 2010
HARARE - Zimbabwe’s Members of Parliament have threatened to hold demonstrations after the minister of Finance refused to review their allowances upwards.
Mugabe's party sees possible 2011 Zimbabwe elections
Tue, Jul 20, 2010
HARARE (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe's party says there is "no reason" for Zimbabwe not to hold elections in 2011, but analysts believe the polls could be much later over demands for more reforms to guarantee a free and fair vote. (Picture: Last orders, Mugabe 86 no longer has enough support to remain an 'elected' President)
Tsvangirai promotes Maridadi in office restructuring
Mon, Jul 19, 2010
HARARE - Contrary to media frenzy bordering on jealousy and ignorance on alleged James Maridadi demotion, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has effectively promoted the former ZBC DJ to the new powerful position of Director of protocol, a Chief of Staff in the US's white House, we can reveal.
MDC offers to break impasse
Sun, Jul 18, 2010
HARARE - South African President Jacob Zuma could soon make an unexpected breakthrough in Zimbabwe's protracted political deadlock.
