News about Zimbabwe that you can use
President Jacob Zuma is to send his negotiation team to Harare this week to meet with parties to the Global Political Agreement ahead of the Southern African Development Community troika which will meet in Zambia on 31 March.
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The billion dollar diamond deal which would have seen Zimbabwe selling rough diamonds worth $1.2 billion a year to the Surat Rough Diamond Sourcing India Limited is off, according to the Times of India.
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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has warned that Zimbabwe could slide back to the chaos of 2008 unless the Southern African Development Community nips the current tension within the country which has seen several of his party members including a minister being arrested and charged.
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Britain has described threats by President Robert Mugabe to nationalise British companies as “utterly irresponsible and counterproductive” and has promised to give affected companies whatever support it can.
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Zimbabwe has enormous potential but it will not be able to exploit this until and unless there is a clearer political roadmap and the brain drain of Zimbabweans to all parts of the world is reversed, a British peer, Lord St John Bletso, said during a debate on Zimbabwe in the House of Lords last week.
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William Gumede’s book: Thabo Mbeki and the battle for the soul of the ANC has some interesting comparisons of Mbeki and his predecessor Nelson Mandela. It also has an interesting quote from Mohandas Ghandi who Gumede says Mandela admired greatly.
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Finance Minister Tendai Biti has described his job as the worst in the world but at the same time he said Zimbabwe is misunderstood. He said a lot of investors did not know what they were dealing with because there is a lot of negativity that is being churned out on the internet and in newspapers.
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Another British peer has said that though he supports sanctions on Zimbabwe, Britain’s sanctions policy “has singularly been ineffective” and has been used as a weapon by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to bolster support against the West for the country’s poor economic performance.
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Vice President Joyce Mujuru, who was catapulted to power in 2004 in a move that nearly split the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front, is now the favourite to take over from President Robert Mugabe should he die in office, according to a British peer.
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