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Mugabe celebrates 90th birthday in Singapore -President Robert Mugabe celebrated his 90th birthday today but he was still in Singapore where he went to have an eye operation. His absence from the country on such an important day raised questions about his health with some reports bringing back whispers that he had probably not gone to Singapore for an eye operation but for cancer treatment. Former central bank governor Gideon Gono told United States embassy officials in 2008 that Mugabe had been diagnosed with cancer and had been given two years by his doctors. Mugabe has denied he has cancer saying in a televised interview before he left for Singapore that he was fit.

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Movement for Democratic Change Member of Parliament for Kambuzuma Willias Madzimure stirred a rare moment of unity in the house on Thursday when he urged legislators to stand up against corruption, forcing everyone to stand up to sing- Kune nzira dzamasoja- a liberation song that urged the guerrillas to be upright.

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While Zimbabweans are seeing doom and gloom and no prospects of economic recovery under the current regime, foreign investors see a fast-growing economy offering better returns than the developed and emerging markets.

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Zimplats, the 87 percent-owned subsidiary of Implats, South Africa’s second largest platinum miner, is currently the only operation in the group that is producing platinum for sale, according to the South African daily, Business Day.

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Buhera South legislator Joseph Chinotimba and Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa had a bit of a wrangle in the House on Wednesday when Chinotimba asked whether it was government policy to repair potholes only in areas where the bourgeoisie and the corrupt people who had money lived and not where the common people lived.

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Women’s Affairs Minister Oppah Muchinguri who is also in charge of Gender and Community Development has called for less talk and more action on gender violence which she said was on the increase.

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The Movement for Democratic Change was supposed to be a model for democracy in Zimbabwe. The party leader would serve only two terms and step down regardless of how popular he was.

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Members of Parliament were shocked yesterday when they were told by Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi that the spot fines police collected at road blocks dotted all over the country were not even enough to buy fuel for police cars.

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The United Kingdom, a sworn enemy of Zimbabwe on paper, has bailed out the Zimbabwean government by providing funding for the Basic Education Assistance Module which was suspended last month because of lack of funding.

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