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This is what some critics thought when then Minister of Lands Kumbirai Kangai compulsorily acquired more than 1 500 white-owned farms sending shock waves in the country’s economy but well-knowing…

Blessing-Miles Tendi would make a lot of enemies with civil society in Zimbabwe if his book: Making history in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe was widely available in the country.

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Zimbabwe thumped Canada and the West to win chairmanship of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development in May 2007. According to a cable just released by Wikileaks, Canada had vowed to lobby against Zimbabwe’s election even going to the extent to trying to persuade African countries to set aside their claim to the chair for the 16^th session of the CSD.

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We asked this question 12 years ago when then Standard editor, Mark Chavunduka, his reporter, Ray Choto, and the paper's managing director, Clive Wilson, were arrested and detained over a…

One Bulawayo resident describing murambatsvina, six years ago, put it this way: "Zvakaitwa nehurumende zvakafanana nababa wanoona mwana wavo akapfeka hembe dzakabvaruka, vobva vadzibvarura bvarura, vachiti nyarara mwanangu ndichakutengera sutu,…

The Sovereign Wealth Fund- which is yet to be created- has emerged as the favourite to take over majority stakes in foreign-owned mining companies should the government go ahead with its planned indigenisation programme.

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The arrogance that Zimbabwe's politicians continue to display is amazing. Eleven years ago Obert Mpofu, who had lost in the elections but was appointed governor of Matabeleland North vowed he…

Despite reports about his ailing health- which he has dismissed- President Robert might not be in a position to retire even if he wanted to because there is too much at stake, according to a blogger for a United States magazine, Foreign Policy.

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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has baffled his critics for more than a decade. In 2000, most people thought that his days were numbered after people rejected a new constitution that…

Georges Tadonki was virtually unknown in Zimbabwe when he worked for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Harare. He came into the country on 24 March 2008, five days before the national elections. By January 2009 he had lost favour with his bosses and was told on 27 January that his contract would not be renewed because of his performance. During that short period he had already clashed with the United Nations country representative Agostinho Zacarias who also headed the United Nations Development Programme.

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