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A Zimbabwean, who sold products that he claimed could cure AIDS, was today sentenced to 240 hours of community service for fraud. He was convicted and sentenced in Belfast, Ireland.

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The Movement for Democratic Change has condemned the directive by Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo that local authorities should write off debts incurred by residents from February 2009 to end of last month as vote buying.

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Baba Jukwa has been a sensation since he came onto the scene four months ago. But I have an uncanny feeling that either he will come out in the open or he will disappear shortly after 31 July. I just feel so because he or she will have accomplished his task. So with elections only eight days away, I just felt let me have my last take on him.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday castigated MDC candidates who lost in the primary elections but were now contesting as independent candidates.

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The South African media is very disappointed by the way things are going on in Zimbabwe. They were expecting a bloodbath, on a massive scale that would dwarf what happened in 2008 when about 180 people were killed, but so far nothing of the sort has happened.

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It’s nine days to the elections. There has been a question that has been nagging me all along and I better ask it before the elections are over. Where is Jonathan Moyo in Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leader Robert Mugabe’s campaign?

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This is the question posed by Aubrey Matshiqi, a research fellow at the Helen Suzman Foundation in South Africa in an opinion piece in today’s Business Day.

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For most people the weekend is a time to relax. Others have no access to the internet. So we have decided to start this new briefing which will be published on Mondays to update you on what you may have missed on Saturday and Sunday. We could expand this to start on Friday afternoon if you say so.

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South African President Jacob Zuma today chastised his advisor Lindiwe Zulu on her comments about Zimbabwe saying he was the only one authorised to speak on Zimbabwe on behalf of the Southern African Development Community.

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Leaders of the Southern African Development Community troika who met yesterday vowed to stand by Zimbabwe and ensure a vote that will be credible enough when the country holds its elections in 10 days.

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