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Elections next year
Negotiators for Zimbabwe's three key political parties have agreed to an election roadmap that will see the polls being held next year. President Robert Mugabe had wanted the elections this…
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Marange diamonds
Two people Zohra Desai and Prema Desai were arrested for smuggling 48 663 carats of diamonds from Marange valued at more than $2 million reports said today. The two were…
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Elephant meat for prisoners
The Zimbabwean government is considering feeding prisoners with elephant meat to improve their diet, reports said today. The reports said some 20 inmates died each day in 2009 as a…
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Pilots end strike
Air Zimbabwe pilots today ended their month-long strike for higher wages. They were reported to have reached an “an amicable agreement” with the airline. The airline’s 49 pilots were demanding…
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Margaret Dongo’s adventures
Margaret Dongo, now leader of the Zimbabwe Union of Democrats, has joined a group of "right of centre political parties". The group said it was a network of democrats unafraid…
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US think tank says internet cannot be used for political change in Zimbabwe
The internet cannot be used for mass mobilisation in Zimbabwe because of the various obstacles to access and also because even among those that have access there is no coordinated use of social networking sites to build support for political change, a United States think tank, Freedom House, says.
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Copac given cash
The Constitutional and Parliamentary Committee which has been tasked with drafting the country's new constitution that will pave the way for new elections has been given US$10 million, reports said…
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Stupid black men- Chapter One
After reading Michael Moore’s book : Stupid White men, I felt I could write a similar book entitled Stupid black men. Where he wrote an open letter to former United States President George Bush junior, I felt I would write an open letter to President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, president of my own country.
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Zimbabwe bans unrefined chrome exports
Zimbabwe announced today that it had banned the export of chrome ore in a move aimed at boosting local smelters that will now have to process the mineral before its…
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Mugabe to officially open church with answers to Zimbabwe’s problems
President Robert Mugabe is to officially open the Zion Christian Church’s Mbungo Church and Conference Centre, about 60 km East of Masvingo, on Thursday but the head of the church Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi said the church will be consecrated in August.
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