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The UK Border Agency, which is now fighting to deport Zimbabweans who have failed to get asylum in Britain, has appealed against 4 269 cases of Zimbabweans facing deportation over the past two years, Immigration Minister Damien Green said this week.

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Zimbabwe is once again in the spotlight. The Southern African Development Community will this weekend review progress in resolving the Zimbabwe crisis and will be under a lot of pressure to be seen to be reining in President Robert Mugabe under control. But as we argued just a few days after the signing of the Global Political Agreement, it might not have been ideal but the agreement was the best Zimbabwe’s leaders could come up with.

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Only yesterday Finance Minister Tendai Biti said Zimbabwe’s economic growth could exceed the government’s forecast of 9.3 percent in 2011. “I genuinely believe the growth rate could be higher, mainly because of the strong performance of international commodity prices. The food crisis is helping us as we are in a surplus position in grains.”

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The International Monetary fund has predicted a slow-down in Zimbabwe’s economic growth from 9 percent to 5.5 percent this year and attributes this to “an inefficient composition of expenditure, rising vulnerabilities in the financial system, and the recent announcement of the fast-track indigenisation of the mining sector”.

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Anyone who says elections in Zimbabwe are coming up this year, next year or in 2013, is out of his mind, so says Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister and Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Tendai Biti according to the Financial Times. 

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