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Barely a week after European Union Ambassador to Zimbabwe Aldo Dell’Ariccia said there was no leadership crisis in Zimbabwe, Bulawayo South Member of Parliament Eddie Cross, says there is, and South Africa has to intervene to prevent the country from going adrift.

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Sunday Mail editor now said to be Baba Jukwa – Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi who was arrested on Thursday is now being accused of being Baba Jukwa, a faceless facebook character that claimed to be a disgruntled Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front insider and was very popular in the run-up to the 2013 elections. The media including the Sunday Mail last month “exposed” Baba Jukwa as two South African based reporters, Mxolisi Ncube and Mkhululi Chimoio of the Zimbabwean. Kudzayi was appointed editor of the Sunday Mail in April. He appeared in court today charged with insurgency, terrorism, banditry, sabotage, subverting a constitutionally elected government and not securing firearms but was not asked to plead and will appear in court on Monday. Kudzayi is alleged to have connived with his brother in Aril last year to overthrow the government and opened a Baba Jukwa email account. The Baba Jukwa facebook page was created on 22 March 2013.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai today told more than 400 party councilors to go and work and forget about the departure of former secretary-general Tendai Biti and his group because some people got tired on long and tortuous journeys.

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Britain is pumping out £684 million in the 2014-15 financial year to promote stability, including in Zimbabwe, and will increase this to £1 billion in the 2015-16 financial year, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs William Hague said yesterday.

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Earlier this year, the age-old rivalry between Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change, and Tendai Biti, the party’s secretary-general, bubbled to the surface in dramatic fashion. The MDC’s two leading figures had long held together an alliance at the heart of the party, but this arrangement shattered spectacularly two months ago and has only deteriorated since.

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The International Monetary Fund has called on Zimbabwe to reduce the uncertainty regarding its indigenisation policy, including the banking sector, to avoid deterring investment.

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HARARE – Launching a business can be hard work, especially in Africa, where weak governance systems and inconsistent access to critical resources impede success. For Africa’s farmers, the challenges are particularly pronounced. Given the vast economic and social benefits of a dynamic and modern agricultural sector, providing farmers with the incentives, investments, and regulations that they need to succeed should become a top priority.

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Africa, which has had average annual growth of between 4 and 5 percent since 2000, has become a sought after trophy by the West especially because of China’s interest. China not only has the money but is also not imposing strict conditions that the West does. But more importantly China is hungry for resources which used to be the preserve of the West.

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We will be orphans without you baba Mugabe says top mujibha – The leader of the Zimbabwe Liberation War Collaborators- popularly known as mujibhas and chimbwidos during the liberation struggle-yesterday told First Lady Grace Mugabe to tell her husband not to leave office because “we will be orphans without him as president”. Pupurayi Togarepi told Grace Mugabe this at her children’s home in Mazowe where she said she had no right to influence President Robert Mugabe to stay or leave office. Mugabe is 90 but his current term of office ends in 1918. The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front holds in national congress this year and is expected to elect a new leadership but some top officials are already campaigning for Mugabe to hang-on declaring him president-for-life. “The President may decide to leave office, but please tell him that we will be orphans without him as president,” Togarepi was quoted by The Herald as saying. “The freedom we are enjoying today is as a result of his wise leadership and other countries pray to have a leader like him. We are told South Africa is rich, but the indigenous people have nothing, but President Mugabe changed the lives of ordinary people. We thought it would be wise for us to brief you first on our decision before we tell the nation. To those who want to lead, we say be patient your time will come as long as we remain united.”

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DUBAI – In 1968, while studying at the Mons Officer Cadet School in the United Kingdom, I needed to visit a hospital. There I met a doctor who, to my surprise, spoke fluent Arabic. I learned that he was new to the UK, so I asked if he intended to stay long or return home. He replied with an Arabic saying that translates as: “My home is where I can eat.”

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