News about Zimbabwe that you can use
Finance Minister Tendai Biti dropped a bombshell yesterday when he said Zimbabwe’s unemployment was only 9 percent and not the 85 percent that has been bandied about for years.
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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai failed to persuade National Constitutional Assembly leader Lovemore Madhuku to chair the Select Constitutional Committee, which was to steer the process to draft the new constitution, because the two men failed to reconcile.
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Zimbabwe’s major “opposition” parties which had banked on a Southern African Development Community special summit scheduled for this Sunday to present their objections to holding elections before 31 July are now in a fix as the regional body has postponed the summit.
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China was elected vice chair of the Kimberley Process Certification Process at the organisation’s intersessional meeting in Kimberley, South Africa, this week which coincided with the organisation’s 10th anniversary.
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Apple, Dell, Microsoft, Nike. These are all household names in Zimbabwe, but they are also Fortune 500 corporations based in the United States.
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National Constitutional Assembly leader Lovemore Madhuku was against the composition of the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Constitution when it was set up in 2009 because he argued it was parliament driven and not people driven.
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Leaders of the main “opposition” political parties in Zimbabwe- the two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change, Mavambo-Kusile-Dawn, the Zimbabwe African People’s Union and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Ndonga- today met and agreed that it was not practical to hold elections by 31 July as set by the Constitutional Court.
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The Insider website is being upgraded and will have a new look, the same as the one in which the Open Forum platform is built. The new site will have easier usability especially for mobile users.
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On 31 May, the Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe ruled that the upcoming harmonised elections must be held by the 31 July, 2013. This development confirms widespread expectations, namely that President Robert Mugabe intends to have elections soon after the expiry of the coalition government, which ends on 29 June.
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National Constitutional Assembly leader Lovemore Madhuku said the renewal of United States sanctions on Zimbabwe soon after the formation of the inclusive government was just a technical extension.
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