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A British Member of Parliament has called on Mozambique to take stronger measures to stem diamond smuggling from Marange because this is a vital link that is helping to sustain President Robert Mugabe’s regime.

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Life expectancy in Zimbabwe is said to be under 40 years but a British Member of Parliament told the House of Commons last week that if one wanted to live longer one must come to live in Zimbabwe because there were some people in that country who were aged between 111 and 120 years. They were simply people that were long dead but refused to fall as they were still on the country’s voters’ roll.

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Human rights lawyers in Zimbabwe may silently be praying that the present crisis in the country does not end because they will be out of jobs. A British Member of Parliament who was in Zimbabwe in March told the House of Commons last week that when he asked some human rights lawyers during a dinner what they would do for a living if the situation in Zimbabwe cleared up, they did not have a response.

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Britain should provide President Robert Mugabe and his supporters with a face saving solution if it is serious about having free and fair elections in Zimbabwe, a conservative Member of Parliament told the House of Commons last week.

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The British government has not allowed Zimbabwe to fall off its agenda, a thing that President Robert Mugabe and his strategists would have loved to maintain their monopoly on power, a British member of Parliament Kate Hoey, said this week.

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Although some of the sitting Members of Parliament are not happy with the way things are they are quiet because they are more concerned about their future. This was 12…

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai today said he saw a Zimbabwe with a $100 billion economy by 2030 with the economy growing by at least 10 percent every year.

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John Legat chief executive of Imara Asset Management Zimbabwe says the government of national unity has made tremendous progress since its inception in 2009 but the media thinks otherwise. He also says the government has been compensating white farmers since 2002 but the commercial farmers union has not publicly endorsed the scheme. 

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Zimbabwe’s inclusive government has made positive progress since it was established two years ago despite media attempts to suggest otherwise says one of the country’s leading investment advisors John Legat chief executive of Imara Asset Management Zimbabwe.

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Zimbabwe is compensating white farmers but it is paying them only for improvements and not for the land itself or for moveable property but there has been a slow take-up by the farmers themselves, says John Legat, chief executive of Imara Asset Management Zimbabwe, one of the leading pension fund and private client asset managers in Zimbabwe.

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