Politics and growth

Finance Minister Tendai Biti today said Zimbabwe will achieve a 9.3 percent growth this year but added that political instability was keeping the nation from potential double-digit growth. He warned…

What the GPA says about sanctions

Despite their differences, parties to the Global Political Agreement acknowledged that Zimbabwe was under sanctions, including targeted sanctions and vowed to fight for the removal of these sanctions to facilitate the country’s economic recovery. But none of the parties has control over the lifting of these sanctions. Here is what the GPA says about sanctions:

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MDC fair game to ZANU-PF

“Zvatinoona muchidhadhaira taifunga kuti makarongeka!” This is what a senior official of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front is reported to have told his Movement for Democratic Party counterpart when ZANU-PF started demanding that elections be held no later than 2011 and the MDC insisted that no date should be fixed until all the issues outstanding in the Global Political Agreement had been implemented.

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No Violence

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai today said his party will not use violence to achieve political change in the country. "I want to tell foreigners who have been saying the MDC…

Disgrace

Suspected ZANU-PF supporters today allegedly disrupted the proceedings of a parliamentary committee receiving submissions on a proposed human rights law and assaulted an MDC legislator Brian Tshuma. Some journalists were…