News about Zimbabwe that you can use
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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Movement for Democratic Change treasurer Roy Bennett addressed an investor conference in Cape Town last month during which he lambasted mining companies for their complicity in “Mugabe’s blackmail”. Here is his full speech.
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A United States publication has named Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai as one of the biggest losers from the release of United States embassy cables by Wikileaks.
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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change yesterday announced that it would hold its congress in Bulawayo at the end of this month.
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The Southern African Development Community troika summit of the Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation which met in Livingstone, Zambia, yesterday called for an immediate end to violence, intimidation, hate speech, harassment, and any other form of action that contradicts the letter and spirit of Global Political Agreement in Zimbabwe.
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