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Growth to slow in 2012
Finance Minister Tendai Biti today said Zimbabwe's economy will grow at a slower pace in 2012 than this year as politics puts a drag on full recovery and inflation should…
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Prosecutors on strike
Prosecutors went on strike today to press for higher pay, bringing courts across the country to a halt. The 230 prosecutors want their salaries increased from an average of $260…
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The Grace Mugabe Wikileaks dossier
First Lady Grace Mugabe always makes good copy. This even applied to the Wikileaks cables. Though our initial search indicated that she was cited in 85 cables, when we read through the cable, we discovered that she was cited in 34. The other 51 cables either mentioned her husband President Robert Mugabe wanting to exit gracefully or Mugabe and some United States official whose first name was Grace.
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US embassy says Mugabe is ailing but in command
President Robert Mugabe seems to have been ill for quite some time. According to a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks, Mugabe was quite ill way back in 2003 and had consulted a United Nations medical specialist.
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No Zimbabwe-style land grabs
South African President Jacob Zuma today said that South Africa would not see land grabs like those undertaken in Zimbabwe. He also said that his African National Congress was 'in…
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Mugabe brushes off health reports
President Robert Mugabe today brushed off reports that he was in poor health. The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation said Mugabe flew back to Zimbabwe from Singapore today and was "in a…
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Mugabe sick again!
Reports today President Robert Mugabe had flown to Singapore to seek treatment. Information Minister Webster Shamu was quoted as saying Mugabe had gone for a review on the cataract operation…
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Mobile phone bosses arrested for externalisation.
At least eight business persons affiliated with mobile phone operators Econet and Telecel were arrested in one week in November allegedly for externalising foreign currency.
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First Lady goes “shopping” for a dairy farm
Although dairy farmers had gone largely untouched during the farm invasions of 2000 to 2002, reports in November 2002 said the First Lady Grace Mugabe was one of the high profile people that had started scouting for a dairy farm.
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First Lady eyes farm with 27-room mansion!
First Lady Grace Mugabe was reportedly one of the more high-profile beneficiaries of the fast-track resettlement effort. According to a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks the First Lady was reported to have chosen a farm roughly 30 km northwest of Harare which had a new 27-room mansion, valued at over Z$100,000,000 (roughly US $1.6 million), fronted by a 2 hectare “well-manicured garden.”
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