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Zimbabwe police to move into mining industry
Police force units the world over are not known for their mining prowls but that could soon change in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe police have indicated their...
Zuma vows not to apply Zimbabwe style land reform in South Africa
South African President Jacob Zuma says radical changes need to be effected to the nation’s “willing buyer, willing seller” model for land transactions but...
Zimbabwe: Journalists summoned to appear in court
Four journalists with the weekly Standard newspaper have been summoned to appear in court on 6 May 2010 as state witnesses in the criminal...
Zimbabwe: Ahmadinejad snubs Mugabe’s security
Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's security details on Friday took
over all security arrangements after they protested that Zimbabwean
spies are armateurs.
Ahmadinejad has close to 50 security...
Zimbabwe-Iran: Uranium deals against debts?
Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today vowed to stand side by side with Zimbabwean leader in defence of the country against the “arrogant,
evil minded super...
The Struggle for a Free Zimbabwe: Whose freedom is it, anyway?
It is the morning after Robert Mugabe's wasteful pomp and ceremony disguised as 'independence celebration' when the music has died down, euphoria subsided and...
Mix of hope and resignation about return of independent press
Fed up with years of inactivity because of forced closures and still waiting for their newspapers to be given licences to start working again,...
Zimbabwe: Ministerial meeting on youth development closes with adoption of plan of action of youth decade, declaration and resolutions on the way forward
African Ministers in charge of youth concluded their two-day third ordinary session in Victoria Falls on April 16th. During the course of their meeting,...
Zimbabwe: Iranian leader’s visit to focus on debt?
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad jets in Zimbabwe today on a three-day state visit to officiate a low profile trade exhibition but on top of...
Reflections of 30 years of independence in Zimbabwe
There are numerous reports in medical history where people have suffered excruciating pain for years after undergoing abdominal operations. Only after x-rays are carried...
Zimbabweans up in arms over North Korean World Cup team invitation
North Korean world cup soccer team which announced that it will have a
brief training camp in Zimbabwe has been told that they are not...
Zimbabwe: A gloomy independence day for a former African jewel
Zimbabwe commemorates 30 years of independence on Sunday, but the
festive mood has been dampened by United Nations announcement on
Friday that the country’s humanitarian crisis...
Zimbabwe: 30 years of independence
On Sunday 18 April 2010, Zimbabwe will celebrate 30 years of Independence, 23 of which have taken place under the rule of President Robert...
Zimbabwe: Swedish Funding Boosts Humanitarian Programme for Displaced and Vulnerable Populations
Programmes providing much-needed humanitarian assistance to mobile and vulnerable populations (MVPs) and returned migrants in Zimbabwe have received new funding from the Swedish International...
Zimbabwe: Probe into Mugabe’s stolen birthday gifts begins
Two cabinet ministers from President Mugabe’s Zanu-PF and a string of top officials are under probe on allegations of stealing Mugabe’s birthday gifts in...
Zimbabwe: ZBC to launch Channel Two
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation will on 1 May 2010 launch its second television station Channel 2. State owned newspaper, The Herald reported on 13...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe blamed for Ex-Zanu PF hatchet man’s death
A member of the dreaded Central Investigative Organization (CIO) who
dared to publicly criticize President Mugabe was found dead in Zimbabwe on Monday.
Innocent Makamure’s...
Zimbabwe’s list of shame and Oskar Schindler’s list
"He who saves the life of one man, saves the world entire", so says Ben Kingsley acting as Itzhak Stern in Steven Spielberg’s award-winning...
African youth are major drivers in bid to attain African Union vision – experts
A three day meeting of experts of the African Union is underway in the resort town of Victoria Falls, in preparation for the...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe attacked for inviting Iran President Ahmadinejad
Controversial Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is heading for
Zimbabwe next week and human rights activities are already planning
protests.
Ahmadinejad would open a trade exhibition set for...
Zimbabwe: Almost 80% of population is absolutely poor
A United Nations Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) says an estimated 78
per cent of Zimbabweans are absolutely poor but the fragile coalition
government says the economy...
Zimbabwe: Police question journalists
Feluna Nleya and Jennifer Dube reporters with the privately owned Standard weekly were on 31 April 2010 questioned by police from the Law and...
Zimbabwe coup plotters’ prison escape foiled
Zimbabwe's maximum prison - Chikurubi Maximum is on high alert after seven dangerous inmates including a man accused of plotting to assassinate President Robert...
France in a hot-spot over Mugabe, El Bashir, Rajoelina affair
The France-Africa Summit set for Nice end of May is said to "have found Paris in a quandary” as it does not want to...
Payback time for Mugabe and cronies as White farmers grab properties
It’s pay back time for Robert Mugabe’s government in Zimbabwe.
A group of white commercial farmers who watched in despair as Mugabe regime grabbed their...
Zimbabwe: A new wife for Tsvangirai?
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai seems to have found new love in the person of his late wife’s sister- Leah Mhundwa.
In line with his...
Zimbabwe: Chinamasa under fire for “ridiculous” comments
The legal fraternity in Zimbabwe has condemned Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa who claimed that “dismal and half baked’ lawyers are churned...
Zuma defends two wanted Rwandans and lifting of Zimbabwe sanctions
South African president Jacob Zuma has defended his country over hosting two wanted army officers from Rwanda, and called on the United Nations to...
Zimbabwe: Morgan Tsvangirai condemns homosexuals in raw terms
Zimbabwe's Premier Morgan Tsvangirai has joined veteran leader Mugabe
in declaring that homosexuality has no place in Zimbabwe.
Mugabe has in the past made frequent vitriolic...
Zimbabwe: Journalist detained at border post
Freelance journalist Nunurai Jena was on 21 March 2010 detained by security officials at Beitbridge Border Post on his way home from South Africa.
Jena...