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South African mediators today said serious progress by Zimbabwe’s parties towards agreement on a road map to fresh elections. Lindiwe Zulu, President Jacob Zuma's international affairs adviser, said she hoped…

The deadline for mining companies to submit their plans for indigenisation passed today with reports that major mining companies such as Anglo Platinum which owns Unki Mine near Shurugwi and…

One of South African President Jacob Zuma's negotiators Lindiwe Zulu today said the political stalemate in Zimbabwe "cannot go on forever" but she added that elections cannot be held this…

The government has revoked the specification of exiled businessman Gilbert Muponda - one of the founding directors of ENG Capital, reports said today. Muponda has been specified since 2004. Muponda…

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai today said that he was not against his country’s mineral resources indigenisation policy describing it as “citizenship empowerment”.   He said it was “a principle .....growing the…

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai today said Zimbabwe will hold its elections in the next 12 months. He said however this was subject to the "fulfilment of certain benchmarks" including the…

Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Tendai Biti today said the central intelligence organisation must answer to Parliament and not just to the president. The CIO currently falls under the president's…

United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray today said that there was still too much self censorship in the media in Zimbabwe. In a speech to mark World Press Freedom…

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions today said the coalition government has failed to stop arrests, violence and intimidation against labor activists more than a year after the International Labor…

Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa today dismissed weekend reports that army generals have demanded that President Robert Mugabe must prepare to step down and appoint a successor immediately. Mnangagwa dismissed the…