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A British Member of Parliament this week said people were now saying they should have supported Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi or Iraq President Saddam Hussein because what they were seeing now was much worse.
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The Morgan Tsvangirai faction of the Movement for Democratic Change today agreed that anyone that qualifies can contest for any position in the party at its congress in October and that the campaigning will be free and fair.
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Zimbabweans must remember that the United States dollar is foreign currency and must conserve it so everyone must support the government directive to blend local fuel with ethanol because this will save the country US$8 million a month, the Deputy Minister of Energy and Power Development Munacho Mutezo said yesterday.
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Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said President Robert Mugabe does not joke. If he finds weevils in his government he will definitely remove them.
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Buhera South Member of Parliament Joseph Chinotimba yesterday asked where the government was getting money to pay members of the Independent Media Panel of Inquiry US$300 a day, with their superiors getting UDS$10 000 a month, when war veterans could not pay fees for their children.
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Surprise! Surprise! South Africa’s black women own more houses than their male counterparts according to the latest General Household Survey by Statistics South Africa. And they are the only racial group who beat their male folks. Coloured, Asian and white women are all beaten hands down.
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Tsvangirai to visit Chaona massacre survivors in Chiweshe today– Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai and the entire leadership of his party are expected to visit Chaona in Chiweshe today to interface with survivors of a massacre in which 14 villagers were killed in one night, three days after the delayed release of the 2008 harmonised elections. The massacre followed the defeat of a senior Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leaders Chen Chimutengwende who was beaten by an MDC candidate in the parliamentary elections. Mashonaland East was a ZANU-PF stronghold but the party lost two of the 18 seats in the province. It retained all the seats in last year’s elections. According to Wikileaks, Cairo Mhandu, the ZANU-PF Member of Parliament for Mazowe North after the 2008 elections, went “mad” as a result of his involvement in the massacre. MDC MP for Mazowe Central Shepherd Mushonga and MDC local councillor Martin Musemwa told United States embassy officials that Mhandu had gone mad because of the ngozi that was haunting him. Mushonga said Mhandu wanted to give a cow to the family of one of the victims through one a traditional leader Chief Makope but the chief refused to serve as an intermediary, telling Mhandu to do it himself.
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The Morgan Tsvangirai faction of the Movement for Democratic Change has brushed off the expulsion of Tsvangirai and national chairman Lovemore Moyo by Tendai Biti’s Renewal Team as cheap drama which showed that the rebels had no respect whatsoever of the rule of law.
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The general household survey conducted by Statistics South Africa which was released this month shows that the number of South Africans living in their own homes which they have fully paid for has declined from a peak of 61.4 percent in 2008 to 54.9 percent last year.
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