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The High Court in Pretoria has given President Jacob Zuma 10 days to release the Zimbabwe 2002 election report by two South African judges Sisi Khampepe and Dikgang Moseneke. This…

The head of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission retired Judge Simpson Mutambanengwe has resigned. Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa said Mutambanengwe resigned on the grounds of ill health. Zimbabwe is due to…

Zimbabwe’s referendum on the new constitution will be held on 16 March, Douglas Mwonzora, spokesman for Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s faction of the Movement for Democratic Change, said.  Tsvangirai said…

The government today gave platinum producers two years to start refining the metal. Mines Minister Obert Mpofu said Zimbabwe wanted to derive more benefit from the resource by having a…

The High Court has ordered Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi and his allies to leave the RioZim-owned Renco Gold Mine in Masvingo. RioZim went to court to fight off Mzembi and…

Central Bank governor Gideon Gono today said $360 million in export proceeds was being kept offshore worsening the cash shortages in the country. He warned that companies that did not…

War veterans’ leader Jabulani Sibanda has already started campaigning for President Robert Mugabe though no one knows the election date yet. He told people in Mhondoro: "ZANU-PF is your first…

The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front has suspended five senior officials from Manicaland over their alleged involved in a fraud and corruption scandal. The five are provincial chairman Mike Madiro,…

Amnesty International today said it feared that Zimbabwe might resume executions after it hired a hangman following a seven-year search. There are 76 prisoners on death row in Zimbabwe. The…

Australia today said it would gradually lift its travel, financial and military sanctions against Zimbabwe and its government officials in three stages. Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr said: "The benchmarks…