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Zimplats, the 87 percent-owned subsidiary of Implats, South Africa’s second largest platinum miner, is currently the only operation in the group that is producing platinum for sale, according to the South African daily, Business Day.

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Buhera South legislator Joseph Chinotimba and Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa had a bit of a wrangle in the House on Wednesday when Chinotimba asked whether it was government policy to repair potholes only in areas where the bourgeoisie and the corrupt people who had money lived and not where the common people lived.

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Women’s Affairs Minister Oppah Muchinguri who is also in charge of Gender and Community Development has called for less talk and more action on gender violence which she said was on the increase.

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The Movement for Democratic Change was supposed to be a model for democracy in Zimbabwe. The party leader would serve only two terms and step down regardless of how popular he was.

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Members of Parliament were shocked yesterday when they were told by Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi that the spot fines police collected at road blocks dotted all over the country were not even enough to buy fuel for police cars.

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The United Kingdom, a sworn enemy of Zimbabwe on paper, has bailed out the Zimbabwean government by providing funding for the Basic Education Assistance Module which was suspended last month because of lack of funding.

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The Movement for Democratic Change has paid tribute to William Bango, a veteran journalist who became MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s spokesman in 2002 and authored his biography.

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Zimbabwean journalist Charles Rukuni has launched a service to provide political and market information to those wishing to invest in Zimbabwe, a country that has been rated as having the highest potential for growth in sub-Saharan Africa in the next seven years.

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The British government today officially issued a notice acknowledging the lifting of sanctions on eight of President Robert Mugabe’s lieutenants by the European Union last week.

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