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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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The Insider has added seven more Wikileaks cables on Zimbabwe bringing our total to 55. Our cable search indicates that Wikileaks has now released 115 cables that mention Zimbabwe, some…

This is what we thought 11 years ago when the Movement for Democratic Change inflicted its first victory over the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front in the referendum for…

The signing of the Global Political Agreement by Zimbabwe’s three key political parties -the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change may have saved Zimbabwe from tougher European Union sanctions according to a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change may be using the constitutional drafting process to delay elections because it has realised that though it won more seats in the 2008 elections than its main rival the Zimbabwe African People Union- Patriotic Front most people do not share its views on the new constitution. 

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