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The Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai faction’s primary elections for Manicaland have been held. There is one glaring blank. Under Buhera West, it reads- pending.

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Britain’s Junior Minister for International Development Lynne Featherstone yesterday said it was vital that elections in Zimbabwe, when held, be conducted freely and fairly and without fear of violence or intimidation.

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Google and Facebook have discussed – and possibly built – special portals for the U.S. government to snoop on user data, according to revelations sparked by an investigative series of articles by Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian.

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Zimbabwe’s voter registration exercises kicked off today marking the official countdown to the country’s elections which the Constitutional Court said must be held before the end of next month.

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Investors are going to flock into Zimbabwe once the elections, which should be held before31 July, are over, regardless of who wins.

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Law professor Lovemore Madhuku has been at the helm of the National Constitutional Assembly since 2001. He had been vice-president from 1997. Madhuku had to get the constitution of the organisation amended in 2006 to allow him to contest as leader and now he is thinking of turning the organisation into a political party and will probably lead it. There are 55 Wikileaks cables that mention his name. Here they are.

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National Constitutional Assembly leader Lovemore Madhuku who was against a parliament-driven new constitution seemed to have softened his position after the first all stakeholders conference but insisted that he would be more effective from outside the process.

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Zimbabwe will never go to the dogs. “Munyika muno makafira munhu mukuru. Mwari haangatenderi kuti anyadziswe” (God will not allow this country to go to the dogs because a very important person died in this country. He will not allow his name to be put to shame.)

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