The Insider

News that the International Monetary Fund had approved a Staff Monitored Programme for Zimbabwe was greeted with glee last week yet studies have shown that wherever the IMF goes, its cure is worse than the disease it was trying to cure.

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The Southern African Development Community has ordered Zimbabwe’s Parliament to meet tomorrow to debate the amendments to the Electoral Act that were made into law by decree by President Robert Mugabe last Thursday.

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Zimbabwe is selling its diamonds through unconventional means at 25 percent below the normal price because of international sanctions against the country, a report in the Times of India said.

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The special summit of the Southern African Development Community today urged President Robert Mugabe to postpone elections which he slotted for 31 July because they feared that hurrying the elections would increase the chances of a disputed result and violence.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti has money to pay former Rhodesian pensioners but has none for national elections which should be held at the end of next month.

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The Southern African Development Community is to decide today whether Zimbabwe can hold its elections on 31 July as declared by President Mugabe or it goes back to the drawing board.

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Ten years ago, United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Bruce Wharton, was the United States public affairs officer in Harare. He was reported to be a close ally, if not financier, of the independent media. But it appears, like his boss Joseph Sullivan, they had little respect for Zimbabwe’s media, both state-owned and privately owned.

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