Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe buggered British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Labour government because after demonising him and his regime, they could not understand why he still enjoyed local and regional support.
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A British Member of Parliament who says he has been committed to regime change for much of his political life yesterday said he would like to see regime change in Zimbabwe.
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Britain is working with the Southern African Development Community to ensure free and fair elections in Zimbabwe. It will not, however, be able to send its own election monitors unless this is sanctioned by the Zimbabwe government.
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Farmers who have sought compensation for their properties taken over by the government during its land reform programme from jurisdictions outside Zimbabwe have lost their cases.
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The European Union is organising an emergency meeting of the Working Group on Monitoring to discuss the recent decision by Kimberley Process Certification Scheme chair Mathieu Yamba of the Democratic Republic of Congo to authorise Zimbabwe to export rough diamonds from its Marange mines.
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The South African government has brushed off comments by the Sunday Mail about its policy on Libya saying governments have their own channels of communication.
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Although Zimbabwe’s real gross domestic product grew by an estimated 6 percent in 2009 and 9 percent in 2010, growth benefits have not trickled down to ordinary Zimbabweans because the country’s budget is heavily tilted toward increasing the government wage bill with insufficient resources being allocated to social programmes and high-priority infrastructure, the International Monetary Fund said yesterday.
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Exiled Movement for Democratic Change treasurer Roy Bennett could lose his seat in the Senate because he has missed 21 sittings. But there is catch. His party could still nominate him as it has the prerogative to fill the seat.
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Anglo Platinum which owns Unki Mine in Shurugwi, the newest entry into the lucrative platinum mining industry in Zimbabwe, says it supports the country’s indigenisation programme but does not believe that the 51 percent currently being proposed is “necessarily optimal”.
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