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World Diamond Council boss Eli Izhakoff says members of the Kimberley Process do not have to like Zimbabwe to allow it to sell its rough diamonds legally. They must think about the future of the industry because it is better for Zimbabwe to sell its diamonds within the system rather than outside.

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Britain’s bossy attitude towards Zimbabwe had only solidified President Robert Mugabe’s status as a colonial liberation leader and rallied South Africa’s unwavering support, one of the cables released by Wikileaks says.

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The media has an uncanny way of reporting on events in Zimbabwe. Southern African Development Community leaders who met in Johannesburg at the weekend are reported to have given ultimatums, chasticised some leaders and so on. Here is the full communiqué on Zimbabwe to enable our readers to judge for themselves. The items that have been removed relate to resolutions on Madagascar.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front propaganda chief Jonathan Moyo says President Robert Mugabe can talk to British Prime Minister David Cameron to reduce the “noise and tension” between the two sides because his approach is very different from that of the last two British premiers, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair.

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While civil servants are battling to have their salaries raised from a paltry $200 a month, executives in Zimbabwe’s private sector and in some parastatals are taking home salaries that are enough to pay 50 to 60 civil servants every month.

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Some executives in Zimbabwe are earning as much as $11 000 a month, plus 250 to 300 litres of fuel, cellphone allowances of up to $900, fees for their children…

The media’s obsession with the succession issue within the ruling ZANU-PF has completely shut out the opposition.  Even the private media has swallowed the bait. It is giving ZANU-PF more…

It's a tug of war. Zimbabwe says it will turn around its economy in six to nine months. Experts say that's impossible. A highly skeptical population just waits, more likely…

The UK Border Agency, which is now fighting to deport Zimbabweans who have failed to get asylum in Britain, has appealed against 4 269 cases of Zimbabweans facing deportation over the past two years, Immigration Minister Damien Green said this week.

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Zimbabwe is once again in the spotlight. The Southern African Development Community will this weekend review progress in resolving the Zimbabwe crisis and will be under a lot of pressure to be seen to be reining in President Robert Mugabe under control. But as we argued just a few days after the signing of the Global Political Agreement, it might not have been ideal but the agreement was the best Zimbabwe’s leaders could come up with.

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