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End death penalty
Legal experts and religious leaders today called for the scrapping of the death penalty. Fifty-five people are on death-row but there have been no executions because the country does not…
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How not to run an election
Zimbabwe seems to have become a good example of how not to announce election results especially when you are not sure about who is going to win.
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Zimbabwe needs $100 million for the referendum but cannot raise $32 million for food
Zimbabwe, which has been battling to fund the Constitutional Select Committee tasked with drafting the country’s new constitution, will need $100 million for a referendum to get the people’s opinion on the constitution before it can hold fresh elections.
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Land seizures cost $12bn
The Commercial Farmers Union today said the land reform programme had cost the country $12 billion in lost production since 2000. CFU head Deon Theron said agricultural production had fallen…
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Has Ambassador Ray changed his mind about ZANU-PF?
United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray who last week said the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front will, and should, continue to play an important role in Zimbabwe’s future, said just over a year ago that the party would become irrelevant after Robert Mugabe leaves the scene, either through death or retirement.
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ZANU-PF has important role to pay in Zimbabwe’s future- US ambassador
ZANU-PF will, and should, continue to play an important role in Zimbabwe’s future but at the same time MDC-T, MDC-N, and other political parties also have critically important roles to play, United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray said last week.
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Parties still divided
Movement for Democratic Change spokesman Douglas Mwonzora today said the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the MDC were still divided over three issues. The two parties had failed to…
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Divisions healthy for democracy
When the Movement for Democracy split six years ago, political analysts argued that this was healthy for democracy and the MDC. It gave the party a chance to evaluate itself.…
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Zimbabweans have no common vision- Biti
Zimbabweans have no common vision and as such the country is very fragile and has a limited capacity to deliver core services to the majority of the people, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said last week.
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Zimbabwe has lowest inflation in the region
Zimbabwe, which only three years ago had the highest inflation in the world, now has the lowest inflation in the region and even has lower inflation than the world largest economy, the United Sates.
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