News about Zimbabwe that you can use
Tobacco sales begin today raising hopes that this could ease the liquidity crunch that the country has been going through.
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Forget about the sexual exploits of Mel Reynolds, who one American online publication described as America’s most perverted ex-congressman, the big question is how the hell did he get away with a US$24 500 hotel bill?
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Though only seven weeks have gone by, 2014 has been an eventful year. First there was news that President Robert Mugabe had collapsed (and died). Then there was “salarygate”, the Air Zimbabwe insurance scam, and Vice-President Joice Mujuru’s gaffe on corruption.
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Baba Jukwa, the faceless facebook character that has enthralled Zimbabweans for nearly a year, announced yesterday that he would be closing his page down today, but he was still posting as late as 5pm today.
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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai saved deputy treasurer-general Elton Mangoma and secretary-general Tendai Biti from the crowds outside the party headquarters on Saturday and actually made sure that Mangoma was driven to Tsvangirai’s house in Highlands.
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Besieged Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai has come up with an eight-point plan to rescue Zimbabwe but he says in order to achieve economic and political reforms there is need to remove ZANU-PF from power as the party has no solution to change the people’s lives for the better.
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The Deputy Minister of Education Paul Mavima last week said the 21 percent pass rate recorded in last year’s O-Level ZIMSEC results was actually an improvement as at one time it was 16.5 percent.
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EU says NO to Mugabe- The European Union is planning to lift the remaining sanctions on Zimbabwe but not on President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton told the European Parliament today it was now time for the EU to respond because Zimbabwe was moving forward. “I think we probably are now in the right place to do this on the basis that if things go badly we can move back again,” she said. The EU has refused to endorse last year’s elections which ZANU-PF won overwhelmingly but it has lifted sanctions on Zimbabwe’s diamonds. Sanctions on Zimbabwe, imposed 12 years ago, will be renewed on 20 February. But reports said the EU would lift sanctions on eight of the 10 remaining individuals on the list. Apart from Mugabe and his wife, others still under EU sanctions are: ZANU-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa, war veterans leader Jabulani Sibanda, Central Intelligence Director Happyton Bonyongwe, Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri, Defence Forces chief Constantine Chiwenga, Air Force Chief Perrence Shiri, Army Commander Phillip Sibanda and army brigadier Douglas Nyikayaramba. Only one firm, the Zimbabwe Defence Industries, remains on the list.
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