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ZANU-PF tells ANC Boers are still in control – The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front told South Africa’s ruling African National Congress that it was not in control but the Boers still were. Responding to a statement by ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe that the ANC would not follow the Zimbabwe route because it was disastrous, ZANU-PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo said: “We have our model which we feel is the best in Africa and they have their own because they want to accommodate colonisers. For us, we suffered because of our principle, however things will change in the next few years,” Gumbo said. “They remain under the rule of the Boers, but our suffering is short-term. We have empowered our people and the fruits of empowerment are being seen.” Mantashe had said: “Look at Zimbabwe. It used to be the bread basket of Africa. Today it imports almost everything. The Zimbabwean dollar has disappeared. This economy will disappear if that is the example we want to follow.”

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The government has appointed a five-member interim management team to run the Premier Services Medical Aid Society and sort out the mess within the organisation and prepare for the holding of an annual general meeting at which a new board can be elected.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai today said the party had resolved its differences following a gruelling five-hour meeting of members of the National Standing Committee on Friday.

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Some years ago, there was a joke about Zimbabwe’s vice-President Simon Muzenda. The joke was that when he was told that President Robert Mugabe was ill and might die, he asked: “saka ndichaita vice waani”.

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Zimbabwe’s diamonds have been a major hit at the Dubai Diamond Exchange with some 105 buyers registering on the first day.

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Mugabe not serious about curbing corruption- Civil society organisations say President Robert Mugabe is not serious about curbing corruption because if he was he would have protected members of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission. According to the Standard today, the organisations said if Mugabe was serious, he would have named, shamed and punished cabinet ministers and top government officials so far implicated in corruption including those alleged to have demanded bribes from potential investors. Last week Mugabe said he had been told that a minister had demanded US$70 000 to facilitate an investment while a Member of Parliament demanded US$50 000 but he did not name the two. “Why is the minister nameless and faceless? Is the President now afraid of his ministers? It shows there is no genuine interest in fighting corruption,” a member of the civil society was quoted by the Standard as saying. Last year he said heads would roll after he was informed that Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation chair Godwills Masimirembwa was involved in a US$6 million scandal but this year he exonerated Masimirembwa saying the Ghanaian investors had lied. Mugabe has previously said ministers had demanded bribes of up to US$10 million but no one has been brought to book yet.

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Zimbabwe is currently a clean slate on which anyone can write. The government is pushing for indigenisation saying this is the only way it can empower its people. Others argue that the country cannot do without foreign investment. Indigenisation is scaring away foreign investors? Who is right? It depends on your own persuasion. Academic and former Tanzanian minister Abdulrahman Babu argued in the postscript to Walter Rodney’s book: How Europe underdeveloped Africa that foreign investment is not the solution. But that was more than 40 years ago. Here is an excerpt.

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Police have been ordered to stop operating kombis, the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi said on Wednesday but he could not state the date when the order was given.

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The Member of Parliament for Buhera South Joseph Chinotimba says Birchenough Bridge, a single-arch suspension bridge on the Save River completed in 1935, should be declared a tourist attraction and people should pay for using it and taking pictures.

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The Deputy Minister of Home Affairs had denied that there is rampant corruption within the Zimbabwe Republic Police and listed a number of measures that he said were aimed at ensuring that corruption is minimised.

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