Posts by Charles Rukuni

Zimbabwe’s economy was shrinking by one percent every month around 2002 that the United States embassy asked whether it would implode.

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The three co-chairs of the Constitutional Select Committee have released a document setting out the 26 constitutional principles guiding the drafting of the country’s new constitution.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai in October 2002 appealed to United States President George Bush to appeal to the United Nations Security Council to intervene in Zimbabwe to stop a bloodbath in Zimbabwe.

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Fuel queues disappeared abruptly over one weekend in October 2002 giving an impression that the government had addressed the fuel shortage in the country but what had happened was that it had ordered suppliers to starve commercial clients to serve retail customers only.

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The Daily News applauded the Southern African Development Community’s decision to block President Robert Mugabe from the SADC chairmanship saying the regional organisation had seen the light at last.

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It was an elaborate dress rehearsal. Everything was planned to the last detail. There would be 12 to 15 journalists. The two United States diplomats would sit as planned with the US and Zimbabwe flags behind them. The press would be seated in a semi-circle because the effect sought was conversational.

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All journalists were removed from the European Union sanctions list last week but there were also some surprise removals. Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front spokesman Rugare Gumbo was, for example, removed while “self appointed Anglican bishop” Norbert Kunonga remained on the list.

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President Robert Mugabe and 111 others remain on the European Union sanctions list for the coming year. There are also 11 companies, mostly associated with the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front, on the list.

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British Foreign Minister William Hague yesterday said his country would create 125 000 new jobs in Zimbabwe over the next four years but said sanctions will continue because political reforms remain slow and politically motivated looting, violence and intimidation continue.

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A British non-governmental organisation Global Witness says the government should cancel the contract of diamond miner Anjin, a joint venture between a Chinese and a Zimbabwean company.

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