The Insider

The announcement by the chair of the Zimbabwe Election Commission Rita Makarau that voter registration and voter inspection will run concurrently and will start on Monday, 10 June, has now made elections possible by 31 July as the exercise will be completed 21 days before the end of the month.

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Groups of civil society that were opposed to the new constitution when the committee to work on the new legislation was set up were very vocal but a small minority, one of the leaders of civil society told United States ambassador James McGee.

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Bulawayo is dying. That is the message that has been dominating the news over the past two or three years. The main reason for this argument is that industry – the hub of the second city- is dying. Businesses have closed.

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South Africa’s Minister for International Relations Maite Nkoana-Mashabane today said a new date for the Southern African Development Community special summit to look into Zimbabwe’s preparedness for elections had not been set yet.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti dropped a bombshell yesterday when he said Zimbabwe’s unemployment was only 9 percent and not the 85 percent that has been bandied about for years.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai failed to persuade National Constitutional Assembly leader Lovemore Madhuku to chair the Select Constitutional Committee, which was to steer the process to draft the new constitution, because the two men failed to reconcile.

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Zimbabwe’s major “opposition” parties which had banked on a Southern African Development Community special summit scheduled for this Sunday to present their objections to holding elections before 31 July are now in a fix as the regional body has postponed the summit.

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China was elected vice chair of the Kimberley Process Certification Process at the organisation’s intersessional meeting in Kimberley, South Africa, this week which coincided with the organisation’s 10^th anniversary.

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