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Zimbabwe is to have a new “independent” television station from tonight run by people like Temba Hove, Andrew Chadwick and Violet Gonda, but I can’t wait to read what Nathaniel Manheru will say about the new channel tomorrow.

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While the world was showering presents and tributes to South Africa’s first black President Nelson Mandela, who turned 95 today, a United States publication celebrated Madiba’s birthday with an article entitled: Nelson Mandela’s less attractive legacy how will history judge the world’s favourite saint?

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Zimbabwe is holding crucial elections in two weeks Two candidates- Robert Mugabe of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change- are the main contenders, though there are three other candidates vying for the post of president.

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Baba Jukwa has been a sensation since he came onto the scene four months ago. He has been described variously as a ZANU-PF insider disheartened by the corrupt and evil machinations of President Robert Mugabe’s party, a mole, a whistleblower, and Zimbabwe’s Julian Assange. There is even reportedly a $300 000 tag on his head.

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A colleague in Europe has just sent me a link to a story that recently appeared on the South West African People’s Organisation’s website querying the violence that accompanied the run-up to the 2008 presidential elections run-off.

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This year is not only the 33rd year Robert Mugabe has been in power. It is also another election where issues do not matter, where people’s needs do not matter, but where only what matters is who gets to power.

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Despite their public diplomatic spats, Britain and Zimbabwe are in business. A report released by the British parliament yesterday revealed that the United Kingdom had sold arms worth £3 million to Zimbabwe.

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The United States yesterday said it was deeply concerned about the lack of transparency in electoral preparations, the continued partisan behaviour by state security institutions, and the technical and logistical issues hampering the administration of credible and transparent elections in Zimbabwe.

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The case in which Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change is seeking to have special voting stopped will be heard this afternoon- two days after the voting took place.

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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leader Robert Mugabe yesterday said Zimbabweans should be proud to be Zimbabweans and must do things for themselves because even the birds were saying Zimbabwe was theirs.

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