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Britain’s Shadow Minister for International Development Gavin Shuker says Westminster’s health care projects totaling £500 million, including those in Zimbabwe, are failing. Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening says they are not.

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A South African writer who said Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was the greatest African statesman alive today, just one month before the crucial 2013 harmonised elections, is now a Member of Parliament under Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters.

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Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe’s foremost tourist destination, is to host the largest route development event in Africa, the 9th Routes Africa, from Sunday to Tuesday.

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Non-Governmental Organisations yesterday got a shock when the European Union ambassador to Zimbabwe Aldo Dell’Ariccia told them that there was no leadership crisis in Zimbabwe and accused them of living in the past.

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WHEN I chose to disclose classified information in 2010, I did so out of a love for my country and a sense of duty to others. I'm now serving a sentence of 35 years in prison for these unauthorized disclosures. I understand that my actions violated the law.

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Movement for Democratic Change youths today demanded jobs from the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front government and said if President Robert Mugabe was the problem, they should take action.

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Jonathan Moyo back on the front page – Information Minister Jonathan Moyo, who had a torrid time at the weekend after President Robert Mugabe first called him a “devil incarnate” and then a “weevil”, seems to have survived the onslaught and is back on the front page of The Herald. Moyo was pictured today with Moses Musarurwa, the head of manufacturing at BAT and the picture was posted on the home page of The Herald website. The story did not quote Moyo who toured BAT today at all. It quoted Lovemore Manatsa the managing director of BAT as saying that the company had no intention of divesting from Zimbabwe. “Over the past four years we have put in about US$5.4 million in infrastructure and particularly now in the distribution part of the business. So that was the point of engaging key stakeholders including the minister of information to put the point across that we are not divesting out of Zimbabwe,” Manatsa was quoted by The Herald as saying. “As part of that engagement to make sure that we are not talking from the tops of our heads we invited them to come through to BAT headquarters here and walk through and appreciate what we are talking about and that is basically the reason why the minister and his team came in today.”

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The celebrity industry turns things upside down. Normally, the media is supposed to protect rape victims by not disclosing their names. But when a woman is raped by a celebrity, like Mike Tyson, the former World heavyweight boxing champion, and she decides to be named, the rules change. She too becomes a celebrity. But sometimes the media forgets to protect others just because someone has opted to be named for “personal”, if not selfish, reasons.

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The Zimbabwe National Students Union has called on Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai to step down voluntarily and has asked whether the founding president of Zimbabwe’s biggest opposition party is still fighting for democracy or for his own personal survival.

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Gibson Mhlanga, who was endorsed as the Premier Services Medical Aid Society boss at a special general meeting yesterday, has given himself until December to clean up the mess at the beleaguered medical aid society.

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