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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has called on Zimbabweans not to bastardise Heroes Day by making it be a day of cheap rhetoric and sloganeering, name-calling and politicking. Instead, he said, this should be a day of sober reflection and deep introspection on whether Zimbabwe has achieved true independence and freedom.

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A self-proclaimed former Rhodesian Selous Scout David Israel Ben Jesse is trying to get The Insider website shut down allegedly for copyright infringement.

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London-based Africa specialists which met in London five days before the swearing in of the inclusive government in February 2009 questioned the United States’ interest in Zimbabwe arguing that it was not a threat but a contained crisis.

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Zimbabwe seems to have become a good example of how not to announce election results especially when you are not sure about who is going to win.

Zimbabwe, which has been battling to fund the Constitutional Select Committee tasked with drafting the country’s new constitution, will need $100 million for a referendum to get the people’s opinion on the constitution before it can hold fresh elections.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray who last week said the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front will, and should, continue to play an important role in Zimbabwe’s future, said just over a year ago that the party would become irrelevant after Robert Mugabe leaves the scene, either through death or retirement.

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ZANU-PF will, and should, continue to play an important role in Zimbabwe’s future but at the same time MDC-T, MDC-N, and other political parties also have critically important roles to play, United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray said last week.

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When the Movement for Democracy split six years ago, political analysts argued that this was healthy for democracy and the MDC. It gave the party a chance to evaluate itself.…

Zimbabweans have no common vision and as such the country is very fragile and has a limited capacity to deliver core services to the majority of the people, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said last week.

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Zimbabwe, which only three years ago had the highest inflation in the world, now has the lowest inflation in the region and even has lower inflation than the world largest economy, the United Sates.

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