The three bishops from Manicaland who were trying to broker talks between the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the Movement for Democratic Change were upbeat after meeting ZANU-PF chairman John Nkomo who was also minister of Special Affairs.
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Zimbabwe’s teachers, who had been on strike for much of 2008, ignored a call by their two unions, the Zimbabwe Teachers Association and the Progressive Teachers Union, to go on strike after the government hiked their salaries from allowances of US$100 a month to UD$150 a month.
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The Zimbabwe Secondary Schools Examination Council released national Ordinary Level exam results on 5 June – four months late but most of the results had either been recorded as missing or were wildly inconsistent with school-predicted results for students.
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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan failed to pin down Special Affairs Minister John Nkomo who was also the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front chairman on the progress or way forward on the inter-party talks with the Movement for Democratic Change.
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Minister of Special Affairs John Nkomo told a visiting United States official that the government had decided to let village headmen distribute food because they knew their communities better than non-governmental organisations.
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No one seemed to know the number of teachers in Zimbabwe when the inclusive government was formed three years ago, and this could still be the situation today as the government insists there are 75 000 ghost workers.
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The Southern African Development Community promised to seek US$2 billion for Zimbabwe’s recovery barely a month after the swearing in of the inclusive government.
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Dumiso Dabengwa, a former politburo member of the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front who left the party to support presidential candidate Simba Makoni, was bitter that his one-time comrade-in-arms Solomon Mujuru never came out publicly in support of Makoni.
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The United States embassy in Harare requested US$3 million a year to sustain democratic forces in Zimbabwe and keep alive prospects for a national democratic revival arguing that this was necessary because President Robert Mugabe had tightened his grip on the country.
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The United States embassy said the government was hyping supposed dividends from its relationship with China, but even Beijing was getting disenchanted with Zimbabwe’s abysmal business environment and economic mismanagement.
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