The Insider

The Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front favours early elections because of concerns over 89-year-old Robert Mugabe’s ability to endure another campaign.

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Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa’s application to the Constitutional Court to postpone elections from 31 July to 14 August will be heard tomorrow and is listed as the first case most likely to be heard.

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The Voice of America’s Studio 7 for Zimbabwe was started to replace the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation that is why it broadcast in all of the country’s three major languages – English, Shona and Ndebele.

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Nearly 30 000 debt judgments involving a total of R388.6 million were passed in South Africa in April according to Statistics South Africa. Some 72 003 summons for debt were also issued in the same month.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front favours early elections because of concerns over 89-year-old Robert Mugabe’s ability to endure another campaign. The MDC, in contrast, is pushing for a later date because electoral reforms are needed first.

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Barely a year after winning the 2002 presidential elections which extended his term of office to 2008, pressure began to mount on President Mugabe to go. The pressure came from the opposition Movement for Democratic Change which claimed Mugabe had stolen the election and was challenging the result.

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Todd Moss, the former United States State Department official who told the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs that Washington could not continue to be a passive bystander on Zimbabwe, has always advocated some form of military intervention in Zimbabwe.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti had to fast track the Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime Bill in Parliament last week because it had been delayed by some members of the cabinet who were against the bill.

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