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Sex once a month
Zimbabwean legislator Sithembile Mlotshwa has called on scientists to develop a chemical to dull men's libido and enable them to have sex once a month to curb the spread of…
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Police arrests of activists- a confused mess
It’s a confused mess. That is what our opinion poll showed when we asked readers of The Insider what they thought about the arrests of political activists and politicians especially those from the Movement for Democratic Change.
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Mugabe says elections possible
President Robert Mugabe today said new elections were possible this year despite a timeline that put the polls in 2012 at the earliest. "We still have six months to go…
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Inflation rises
Inflation rose to 2.9 percent year-on-year in June from 2.5 percent in May, the Zimbabwe National Statistical Agency said today. On a month-on-month basis, inflation was at 0.2 percent from…
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Resisting political corruption- the story of Econet- Part Nine-Conclusion
Given the fast deteriorating economic environment, the Econet management took in February 2000 perhaps its most significant strategic decision: to reduce the exposure to Zimbabwe by developing other markets in Africa and beyond. The vision of the company, which had been “To provide telecommunications to all the peoples of Zimbabwe” (IPO prospectus August, 1998), was now reformulated “To provide telecommunications to all the peoples of Africa.”
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US ambassador says ZANU-PF will become irrelevant as soon as Mugabe goes
ZANU-PF will become irrelevant as soon as Robert Mugabe leaves the scene, either through death or retirement, the United States and German ambassadors to Zimbabwe agreed at a meeting in…
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US tried to block Zimbabwe from becoming VP of WFP- Wikileaks
The United States’ bid to isolate Zimbabwe hit a roadblock in 2007 when it tried to block the country from becoming Vice-President of the World Food Programme in 2007 but was thwarted by Latin American countries.
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Deficit
Finance Minister Tendai Biti today said Zimbabwe will probably post a budget deficit of $500 million this year. Biti said that the government won’t have a supplementary budget this year…
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Resisting political corruption- the story of Econet- Part Eight
Econet was quick to launch its prepaid cellular service. The combination of this innovative product and the goodwill it had accumulated with the people of Zimbabwe over the five years of court battles for the license would take it to a position of market leadership in just three months, even though PTC’s cellular service (Net One) had been launched nearly two years earlier in September 1996.
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Gideon Gono on the impact of sanctions on Zimbabwe
Debate about Western sanctions on Zimbabwe has been raging on for nearly a decade. The main question has been whether they are targeted at individuals or at the country or…