Former “Selous Scout” trying to get The Insider website shut down

August 8, 2011

A self-proclaimed former Rhodesian Selous Scout David Israel Ben Jesse is trying to get The Insider website shut down allegedly…

Mugabe calls NATO a ‘terrorist group’

August 8, 2011

President Robert Mugabe today brandished NATO a “terrorist” organisation over attacks in Libya, saying the military alliance wanted to kill…

Leave politics to politicians

August 7, 2011

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai today accused the military of deploying to villages to attack civilians backing his party. “They should…

Voter fatigue

August 6, 2011

A poll by the Institute for Democratic Alternative for Zimbabwe has shown that 52 percent of those polled did not…

Mukonoweshuro dies

August 5, 2011

Public Service Minister Eliphas Mukonoweshuro died today in South Africa. Mukonoweshuro was the secretary for International Affairs in Prime Minister…

London think-tanks query US interest in Zimbabwe

August 4, 2011

London-based Africa specialists which met in London five days before the swearing in of the inclusive government in February 2009…

End death penalty

August 4, 2011

Legal experts and religious leaders today called for the scrapping of the death penalty. Fifty-five people are on death-row but…

How not to run an election

August 3, 2011

Zimbabwe seems to have become a good example of how not to announce election results especially when you are not…

Zimbabwe needs $100 million for the referendum but cannot raise $32 million for food

August 3, 2011

Zimbabwe, which has been battling to fund the Constitutional Select Committee tasked with drafting the country’s new constitution, will need…

Land seizures cost $12bn

August 3, 2011

The Commercial Farmers Union today said the land reform programme had cost the country $12 billion in lost production since…