Zimbabwe Insider - Part 1570

  • Sydney Masamvu- Martial law looms in Zimbabwe

    Under the headline Martial Law Looms, the August 9 edition of the independent weekly The Financial Gazette carried the following lead article by the paper’s...

  • Mining coming in

    The Chamber of Mines today said mining projects worth $260 million were approved in the first half of 2011, over triple the same period last...

  • Cosatu endorses mortgage book

    The Congress of Southern African Trade Union has endorsed the mortgage book written by Insider editor Charles Rukuni entitled: How to buy a house for...

  • Zimplats reprieve

    The government today gave Zimplats, Zimbabwe’s biggest platinum producer until November 15 to come up with a revised plan on how it intends to localise...

  • Don’t lecture us

    President Robert Mugabe today told visiting managing director for Africa for the European External Action Service, Nicholas Westcott that Europe should not lecture Zimbabwe on...

  • Joice Mujuru behind Murambatsvina!

    Vice- President Joyce Mujuru was behind Operation Murambatsvina, a clean-up exercise that left more than 700 000 people homeless a few months after the 2005...

  • Diamond activist barred

    Lawyers for Farai Maguwu today said he had been prevented from leaving the country to attend the Dublin Platform for Human Rights Defenders scheduled for...

  • Tsvangirai on elections

    Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai today said it would be illegal for President Robert Mugabe to hold elections in March. “Mugabe says he wants an election...