The Insider

A 36-year-old Zimbabwean, Derick Nhekairo, has been sentenced to 120 years in jail for knowingly infecting four women in West Texas, United States, with the HIV virus.

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One of Zimbabwe’s leading and most quoted economists John Robertson told the British Broadcasting Corporation two years ago that most of the land that had been allocated to blacks under the country’s land reform programme lay vacant when this was not true according to a new book: Zimbabwe takes back its land.

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Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC), an indigenous Christian church founded in Zimbabwe nearly 100 years ago, has one message for his followers. It is time to prosper. But he has only one formula -hard work-because “the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands”.

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London-based banker Javier Martin-Artajo Rueda came to Zimbabwe on an extended holiday while the Federal Bureau of Investigations was looking for him in connection with a £4 billion fraud at JP Morgan banking group.

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President Robert Mugabe’s victory in the 31 July elections was reminiscent of his victory in 1980. He was the most disliked candidate. Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who had been Prime Minister of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia was the front runner. Zimbabwe African People’s Union leader Joshua Nkomo was the second favourite. But Mugabe won 57 of the 80 seats reserved for blacks. Muzorewa won only 3 down from 51 out of 72 a year earlier. Soon after Mugabe’s victory, former Tanzanian Foreign Minister Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, regarded as one of Africa’s foremost thinkers, wrote an open letter to Mugabe, then Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. Babu was now an economics professor in the United Kingdom. We reproduce the letter here published in Babu’s collection. The letter was also published in the New African.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front has made history by becoming the first liberation party in Southern Africa to bounce back to power after being defeated by the opposition.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai today withdrew his presidential election court challenge in which he was calling for the nullification of the 31 July elections won by Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leader Robert Mugabe.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday told a provincial council in Mutare that his party had won the 31 July elections but it had been robbed of its victory by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.

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Listening to Zimbabweans talk about their country, you would think they were talking about another country which they have nothing to do with. They have a death-wish. They are constantly wishing the worst for their own country as if what happens to the country will not affect them.

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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leader Robert Mugabe will have to brace up for tougher times to fulfil his promises to empower locals once he is sworn in and takes charge of the country.

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