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Mugabe back home and alive – President Robert Mugabe returned home today but is still on holiday until the end of this month. Faceless facebook character Baba Jukwa had claimed that he had collapsed and was probably dead. Baba Jukwa said if he was dead, the nation would only be notified about this in six months time. Mugabe takes his traditional holiday during the festive period each year and usually travels to the Far East.

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Three-quarters of Zimbabwe’s gold miners could shut down in three months because of the depressed prices and high royalties and taxes, a representative of the gold producers said yesterday.

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Tobacco sales are to begin on 19 February raising hopes that this could ease the liquidity crunch that the country is currently going through.

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Zimbabwe’s platinum mining companies are not likely to meet the end-of-year deadline to set up a refinery in the country because consultations and the process itself require a longer time than that.

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Zimbabwe is now the second most preferred destination for family oriented safaris after South Africa on the continent, a recent international study has shown.

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Four out of every five chief executive officers of companies in Zimbabwe believe that bribery and corruption area threat to growth according to the latest Africa Business Agenda published by global accounting firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers.

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On 10 December, a petrified world watched as Thamsanqa Jantjie gesticulated incoherently as he purportedly tried to translate speeches by several world leaders into sign language. It only took a few seconds for anyone who actually knows sign language to know that what he was doing was not it.

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A decade ago, everyone thought Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leader Robert Mugabe would step down as party leader at the national congress to pave way for a smooth takeover by his successor.

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The International Monetary Fund has extended its Staff Monitored Programme in Zimbabwe by six months to allow the new administration to strengthen its policies and deliver on outstanding commitments under the programme.

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Need another reminder of how much drugmakers spend to discover what doctors are prescribing? Look no further than new documents from the leading keeper of such data.

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