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ZCTU document on salaries and perks of executives in Zimbabwe
Some executives in Zimbabwe are earning as much as $11 000 a month, plus 250 to 300 litres of fuel, cellphone allowances of up to $900, fees for their children…
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SADC on Zimbabwe
The Southern African Development Community summit in Johannesburg today urged South African President Jacob Zuma and the SADC troika to continue working on full implementation of the Global Political Agreement…
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ZANU-PF succession issue shuts out opposition
The media’s obsession with the succession issue within the ruling ZANU-PF has completely shut out the opposition. Even the private media has swallowed the bait. It is giving ZANU-PF more…
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Experts say recovery is only possible after Mugabe is gone
It's a tug of war. Zimbabwe says it will turn around its economy in six to nine months. Experts say that's impossible. A highly skeptical population just waits, more likely…
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UK appeals against 4000 cases of Zimbabwean asylum seekers
The UK Border Agency, which is now fighting to deport Zimbabweans who have failed to get asylum in Britain, has appealed against 4 269 cases of Zimbabweans facing deportation over the past two years, Immigration Minister Damien Green said this week.
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No discussion
The much anticipated discussion about Zimbabwe by the Southern African Development Community did not take place today. South African President Jacob Zuma had to attend the funeral of Albertina Sisulu…
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GPA may not be ideal but it was the best negotiators could come up with
Zimbabwe is once again in the spotlight. The Southern African Development Community will this weekend review progress in resolving the Zimbabwe crisis and will be under a lot of pressure to be seen to be reining in President Robert Mugabe under control. But as we argued just a few days after the signing of the Global Political Agreement, it might not have been ideal but the agreement was the best Zimbabwe’s leaders could come up with.
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Wither Zimbabwe- confusion reigns over growth
Only yesterday Finance Minister Tendai Biti said Zimbabwe’s economic growth could exceed the government’s forecast of 9.3 percent in 2011. “I genuinely believe the growth rate could be higher, mainly because of the strong performance of international commodity prices. The food crisis is helping us as we are in a surplus position in grains.”
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IMF expects decline in growth but Biti disagrees
The International Monetary fund has predicted a slow-down in Zimbabwe’s economic growth from 9 percent to 5.5 percent this year and attributes this to “an inefficient composition of expenditure, rising vulnerabilities in the financial system, and the recent announcement of the fast-track indigenisation of the mining sector”.
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Mugabe meets Zuma
President Robert Mugabe today met his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma but no details of the talks were released. The media was only allowed to take pictures but was barred…