News about Zimbabwe that you can use
Despite the apprehension and uncertainty that surrounded the national referendum on Zimbabwe’s new constitution, more than three million people voted for the new constitution and less than 200 000 against it.
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The case of Jestina Mukoko dragged on with her lawyers pushing for her release while they waited for a hearing in the Supreme Court on the legality of her abduction.
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Investors were showing renewed interest in Zimbabwe due to the country’s abundant natural resources and well-educated populace way back in February 2010, according to a cable dispatched by United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray ahead of a visit by a congressional delegation led by Gregory Meeks.
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Movement for Democratic Change treasurer Roy Bennett said the party was good at campaigning but it lacked a cadre of people who knew how to run a government.
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Attorney-General Johannes Tomana was forced to impeach Michael Peter Hitschmann, his key witness in the trial of Movement for Democratic Change treasurer Roy Bennett, when he realised that his testimony was damaging the State case because it was inconsistent with statements made to the police after his arrest.
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The negotiators for the principal parties in Zimbabwe are reported to have agreed on 15 of the 21 contentious issues including pirate radio stations that broadcast into Zimbabwe such as the Voice of America.
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Finance Minister and Movement for Democratic Change secretary general Tendai Biti told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray that Vice-President Joice Mujuru and Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa were both “unelectable” in a national presidential election.
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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said his party would not budge on its intention to make Roy Bennett the deputy Minister of Agriculture.
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Despite the meteoric rise of Joice Mujuru to Vice-President of the nation as well as of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, ZANU-PF is not ready to accept a woman as president, a cable released by Wikileaks says.
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