Mon, Feb 06, 2012
THE issue of the interference of the security sector into politics which is not only symbolized by unprofessional political utterances and declarations by heads of security sectors of the country but also by the physical intervention of regular and non-regular forces including green bombers and war veterans in various acts of violation of human rights, has ignited animated debates on security sector reform in Zimbabwe. Now that the employment contracts of some of key members of security sector including that of the police commissioner are up for renewal, the debate on security sector reform has intensified but in a wrong direction.
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Mon, Feb 06, 2012
(eTN) - When tourism and travel trade executives are set to meet in Zimbabwe for the 37th Africa Travel association (ATA) Congress in May this year, it is a great honor for the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region to have its member state hosting global delegates who will discuss key issues affecting tourism development in the African continent. Under an umbrella organization, the Regional Tourism Organization of Southern Africa (RETOSA), regional members of SADC are currently marketing this part of the African continent as a single destination comprised of 15 members, boasting diversified tourist attractions. In this exclusive talk, RETOSA's Executive Eirector, Mr. Francis Mfune, speaks briefly about the regional tourism development and the way forward.
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Sun, Feb 05, 2012
A year after Welshman Ncube assumed the presidency of the smaller Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party from Arthur Mutambara, there is no sign of complacency in the man.
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Sun, Feb 05, 2012
Afcon soccer tournament offers up a rare glimpse into one of Africa's most secretive countries nations
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Fri, Feb 03, 2012
HARARE, (PlusNews) - With global funding for HIV/AIDS on the decline, Zimbabwe's innovative AIDS levy - a 3 percent tax on income - has become a promising source of funding for the country, with a dramatic increase in revenue collected in the past two years.
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Thu, Feb 02, 2012
Robert Mugabe’s reported rant against the African Union (AU) and its handling of the crisis in Libya last year, is a sign that the ageing leader is ‘panicked’.
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Wed, Feb 01, 2012
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” – United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Tue, Jan 31, 2012
We are hardly into the New Year but, already, the unity government appears to have upped the tempo in their endless infighting.
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Sun, Jan 29, 2012
THERE is no doubt that the ZANU-PF of old was the quintessence of the liberations struggle.
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Sun, Jan 29, 2012
I would rather be a stooge of the western world than a stooge of a simple, bitter, disgruntled, unqualified, politically inexperienced and misguided editor of a newspaper tabloid.
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Fri, Jan 27, 2012
BULAWAYO, (IPS) – From downtown shops that stock cheap clothing and shoes that fall apart after one wear, to mining concessions in platinum, gold and diamonds – the Chinese finger is now in virtually every Zimbabwean pie. From city sidewalks to low-income suburbs, the Chinese have become part of the local population, and if some senior government bureaucrats have their way, the country could soon find itself adopting the Chinese Yuan as its official currency.
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Fri, Jan 27, 2012
HARARE - An electrician ruled out the possibility that an electrical fault caused the fire that gutted the late Solomon Mujuru’s farm house in Beatrice last August.
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Fri, Jan 27, 2012
After spotting a gorgeous young man on her way to the shops, Crystal Warren couldn’t wait to speak to him on her way home. She’d spent her whole grocery trip daydreaming about where they could sneak off for some illicit sex.
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Wed, Jan 25, 2012
There are many reasons for being angry with Africa ’s strong men, whose autocratic ways have thrust some African countries back into the eye of the storm and threatened to undo the democratic gains in other parts of the continent of the past decades.
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Fri, Jan 20, 2012
I am always astounded by the persistent references in the Zimbabwe's The Herald newspaper together with its sister publications to former president Nelson Mandela as simply nothing more than what the African Americans call Uncle Tom or house nigger.
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Fri, Jan 13, 2012
I found the indignation of the Information minister, Webster Shamu, over reports that President Robert Mugabe had flown to the Far East for medical treatment rather puzzling. (Pictured: Ailing Dictator, Mugabe)
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Fri, Jan 13, 2012
WRITING on New Zimbabwe.com last week, Zanu PF’s Godwills Masimirembwa and Jacob Mudenda launched a withering attack on the two men and a woman tasked with drafting the new constitution from the mountains of data gathered during an extensive outreach programme last year.
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Thu, Jan 12, 2012
There is a song entitled Send in the Clowns, in a musical called A Little Night Music, written by Stephen Sondheim writes Brian Mangwende.
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Tue, Jan 10, 2012
Gold rush by illegal panners leads to report that Zanu-PF has seized control of wealth
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Mon, Jan 09, 2012
Mention polygamy and people assume it’s all about sex, designed to suit men more than women. I’m aware that my life, and my religion, can sound bizarre to outsiders.
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Sat, Jan 07, 2012
KISUMU (Kenya) - For the past five years, Achieng*, a 35-year-old widow and mother of six, has sold fish on the Kenyan shores of Lake Victoria; like many women in the fish trade, Achieng often has to have sex with fishermen in order to get the best catch of the day, a system known in the local Luo language as jaboya.
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Fri, Jan 06, 2012
In terms of the spread of HIV, men should not be viewed only as part of the problem but part of the solution.
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Wed, Jan 04, 2012
LISBON (Reuters) – Long-serving Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos is keeping his country and the world guessing about whether he will bid for re-election in 2012 in Africa’s No. 2 oil producer.
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Tue, Jan 03, 2012
HARARE - 2011 has become another year of unfilled resolutions for President Robert Mugabe, with his failure to force elections as resolved by his Zanu PF party at its December 2010 conference highlighting how the coalition government has diluted the 87-year-old’s power writes Wonai Masvingise and Tendai Kamhungira .
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Tue, Jan 03, 2012
HARARE - I am not a fanatic of the MDC neither am I an enemy of the state or even of Zanu PF.
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Tue, Jan 03, 2012
HARARE - In the evening gloom the vast complex emerges into view. Beyond a high security wall, insects dance in the beam of a giant floodlight. Men are still hard at work in the skeletons of concrete tower blocks, and standing at the centre of it all is the arch of a Chinese pagoda.
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Mon, Jan 02, 2012
Eddie Cross says SADC must stick to its guns if violent chaos is to be avoided
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Sun, Jan 01, 2012
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa - Peter Roebuck's "sons" were grateful for his generosity but have emerged to make allegations of sexual oppression and cruel beatings. Some friends of the cricket writer are sceptical about the claims – and the air of blackmail hangs over the saga – but even they admit they did not really know Roebuck.( Pictured: Admiring Psychology Maziwisa and Kasukuwere with an excited President Mugabe....so GAY. Guess what the President's left hand is touching?)
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Fri, Dec 30, 2011
During the past two weeks, there has been a plethora of articles, comments and statements which appeared in the national newspapers, emanating from the Welshman Ncube led MDC group.
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Wed, Dec 28, 2011
Zimbabwe won four medals at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where star swimmer Kirsty Coventry splashed her way to a gold and three silver.
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Sat, Dec 24, 2011
INFORMATIVE LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER MUGABE
Dear Robert,
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Fri, Dec 23, 2011
After working for 42 years at a private company as an office messenger, Kamunjoma Dikani, 73, retired in 2000, just as Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation began to take root.
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Fri, Dec 23, 2011
Long winding queues snake around every service station in Malawi as motorists hunt for the scarce commodity. The scenes are reminiscent of Zimbabwe before the formation of the coalition government in 2009 with motorists queuing for what seems like an eternity.
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Tue, Dec 20, 2011
One of the more surprising facts about Kim Jong-il was his love of cinema. He reportedly owned more than 20,000 videos and DVDs and counted Elizabeth Taylor among his favourite actresses.
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Mon, Dec 19, 2011
Kim Jong-il was one of the world's most reclusive and enigmatic leaders, presiding over a secretive and internationally isolated country. The world's only hereditary communist ruler, he was criticised for flagrant human rights abuses and for threatening the stability of the region by pursuing a nuclear weapons programme and testing long-range missiles. When he assumed power after the death of his father, Kim Il-sung, in 1994, very little was known about Kim Jong-il.
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Mon, Dec 19, 2011
GOVERNMENT'S plans to continue exporting rough diamonds without processing them locally is depriving thousands of Zimbabweans employment opportunities, a local diamond education college has said.
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Sun, Dec 18, 2011
HARARE - Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe moved to the podium with his trademark blend of languor and briskness — still looking reasonably sprightly for an 87-year-old in reportedly poor health.
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Sat, Dec 17, 2011
A Gweru man, Brian Shumba (32) who had a chunk of his manhood bitten off during a dispute with a prostitute is now up and about. Shumba was a regular customer and the dispute was over payment for services she had rendered to him.
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Sat, Dec 17, 2011
JOHANNESBURG — Tens of millions of dollars in diamond profits — perhaps more — are being secretly extracted from state-owned mines in eastern Zimbabwe, bypassing the nation’s treasury and raising fears that President Robert Mugabe is amassing wealth to help extend his 31-year reign, according to monitoring groups, diplomats, lawmakers and analysts and reported in he New York Times.
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Wed, Dec 14, 2011
JOHANNESBURG - The ANC’s backing for Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe’s elections next year is a demonstration that former liberation parties that waged guerrilla wars do not want to see other liberation movements losing power, but analysts do not believe there will be an economic meltdown if President Robert Mugabe has another term in office.
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Mon, Dec 12, 2011
HARARE, (IRIN) - Waterborne diseases, such as typhoid, dysentery and watery diarrhoea - all approaching epidemic levels - are creating concerns that conditions exist for a reprise of the 2008/09 cholera epidemic, which killed more than 4,000 people and infected nearly 100,000 others.
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Sun, Dec 11, 2011
Zimbabwe, when I was growing up there, was the breadbasket of Africa and had one of the best education systems in Africa if not the world.
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Sat, Dec 10, 2011
Are you getting too much sleep? Do you end up watching infomercials on TV? Here are some easy tips for men and women that will light up not just the bedroom ceiling, but your whole neighbourhood too.
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Fri, Dec 09, 2011
Bashar al-Assad, Gamal Mubarak, and Saif al-Islam share a number of things in common. For starters, all were groomed by their fathers to succeed them in ruling Syria, Egypt, and Libya respectively. Second, all were heralded as reformers, men who would help propel their countries, economically and politically, into the twenty-first century. Third, when protests hit their countries, each of them advocated a ruthless and violent response to the unrest.
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Fri, Dec 09, 2011
Several moons ago I observed that it may be time for my fellow academic, Professor Welshman Ncube, to seriously consider engaging Morgan Tsvangirai and his party in order to get the two factions of the original MDC back together before the onset of the next elections.
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Wed, Dec 07, 2011
GABORONE - A Zimbabwean has scored a first by becoming the first woman to head Botswana’s national airline, Air Botswana.
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