Tue, Dec 22, 2009
HARARE – Swiss multinational firm Nestlé has temporarily shut down its Harare factory, on Tuesday, days after top government officials forced the firm to accept milk from Gushungo Dairy Estate owned by President Robert Mugabe’s wife, Grace.
Sun, Dec 20, 2009
WASHINGTON’S new man in Harare, Ambassador Charles A Ray, says a country is strengthened when its people are well - informed and have a variety of sources of information by which they can make informed decisions. In an interview with The Standard last week the US diplomat said much of the current debate over so-called pirate radio stations could be eliminated if there were less draconian efforts to monitor and to control the flow of information.
Sun, Dec 20, 2009
BULAWAYO — The lid is expected to come off in the ongoing inter-party talks tomorrow when the three principals to the global political agreement (GPA) make the long-awaited announcement on deals Zanu PF and the two MDC formations made during their month-long negotiations reports the Standard.
Sun, Dec 20, 2009
Nkala said: "ZANU PF is on its death bed, in intensive care. Mugabe is old and he is sick just as I am old and sick. John Nkomo who has just been promoted to Vice President is old, he is sick and anything can happen to him. How then do you expect sick people to attend to the massive economic problems?"
Sun, Dec 20, 2009
Thirteen academics who were sacked for going on strike three years ago are battling to be reinstated and have lodged a US$46 million claim for unfair dismissal against their former employer, Zimbabwe's Solusi University.
Sun, Dec 20, 2009
Zimbabwe’s mines ministry canceled a diamond mining license held by U.K.-based African Consolidated Resources Plc, the state-controlled Sunday Mail reported, citing ministry documents.
Thu, Dec 17, 2009
Pretoria sources said Mr. Zuma was unhappy with the slow pace of the talks on a range of issues and was taken aback by the intransigent stance adopted by President Mugabe's ZANU-PF party in its congress on the weekend
Thu, Dec 17, 2009
President Mugabe's ZANU-PF says it received the most votes in 2008 general elections so it should receive the largest share of funds, but MDC officials say a formula including Senate votes should be negotiated
Thu, Dec 17, 2009
HARARE – A special parliamentary committee leading Zimbabwe's constitutional reform process has named a 425-member team drawn from lawmakers, politicians and civic society members that will make up thematic committees to lead drafting of the country's new governance charter.
Tue, Dec 15, 2009
Negotiators of the country’s three main political parties are said to have agreed on fifteen of the 21 outstanding issues threatening the shaky coalition government but the MDC wants a deadlock to be declared on the remaining ones, sources close to the talks say reports the Zimbabwean.
Tue, Nov 29, 2011
STATE radio says a militant youth group loyal to the president is calling for a boycott of a restaurant chain whose latest advertising depicts Zimbabwe's leader as "the last dictator standing".
Thu, Dec 24, 2009
President Robert Mugabe, centre, shares a light moment with Morgan Tsvangirai, left, Zimbabwe's Prime Minister and his Deputy, Arthur Mutambara after giving their end of year message to the nation, at Zimbabwe House in Harare, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009. The three leaders said they had made progress in clearing the outstanding issues in the Global Political agreement, and hoped the economy would get better ahead of the New Year. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Thu, Dec 24, 2009
Ambassador Ray said Washington is ready to engage President Mugabe in a rational and mature discussion of how to restore not only bilateral relations but also Zimbabwe's prosperity and international stature
Mon, Dec 21, 2009
HARARE: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and Premier Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday agreed on a slate of key appointments of officials to oversee reforms in media, elections and human rights, a spokesman said.
Mon, Dec 21, 2009
Bulawayo – Hospitals are on a path to recovery with most of them now operating at about 60 percent capacity in terms of drug stocks, it is said.
Thu, Dec 17, 2009
JOHANNESBURG // After a victorious guerrilla struggle for independence, it is often the leader of the liberation movement who swaps his combat fatigues for a suit and tie and goes on to head the new government wites Sebastien Berger in the National.
Thu, Dec 17, 2009
Cleopatra Matimbe (24) pushes her trolley slowly through a busy supermarket in central Harare, picking up groceries for Christmas.
Wed, Dec 16, 2009
The regional support programme for Zimbabwe initiated by SADC in the amount of R300 million has now been handed over for local management.
Wed, Dec 16, 2009
UNITED NATIONS — Zimbabwe's ruling political party has been accused of launching a "widespread and systematic campaign of rape and sexual terror" aimed at intimidating opponents and voters in the troubled African nation, according to a new report released here.
Tue, Dec 15, 2009
President Jacob Zuma's Zimbabwe facilitators remain convinced that Zanu-PF will stick to its agreements in the unity government, despite the weekend Zanu-PF congress resolution that the party would make no more concessions to its opponents.
Tue, Dec 15, 2009
Sources close to the talks said issues including the empaneling of Media and Electoral commissions had been resolved, though not much progress has been made on the more contentious question of top political appointments
Mon, Dec 14, 2009
President Robert Mugabe appointed the co- Minister of National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration and Zanu PF former chairperson, John Nkomo as the country’s second vice president in fulfilment of a 1987 Unity Accord signed between Zanu PF and Zapu.
Mon, Dec 14, 2009
Harare - Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has cancelled his trip to the UN Climate Change Conference in Denmark to spare his cash-strapped government the expense, officials confirmed Monday.
Sun, Dec 13, 2009
THE African National Congress has promised its unwavering support for Zanu-PF, saying it has always been indebted to the party for assisting the South African liberation struggle and that of the whole region.
Sun, Dec 13, 2009
HARARE – The ghost of slain former ZANLA commander Josiah Tongogara (Pictured) came back to haunt Zanu (PF) last week as a pressure group launched a campaign to revisit the circumstances under which the firebrand army supremo perished in a mysterious car crash 30 years ago this month.
Sun, Dec 13, 2009
Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe believes the country's unity government is short-lived and he plans to regain his hold over the country he has ruled for nearly three decades.
Fri, Dec 11, 2009
Harare - President Robert Mugabe on Friday called Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's choice for a ministerial post an "offspring of a settler" who was not Zimbabwean, a remark which is likely to further strain the country's fragile coalition government. Mugabe was referring to Roy Bennett, a white commercial farmer who was driven off his land by Mugabe's controversial land reform targeting whites.
Fri, Dec 11, 2009
Johannesburg - South African mediators on Friday said progress has been made in talks between the rival parties of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
Fri, Dec 11, 2009
Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has bemoaned factionalism within his Zanu-PF party, saying internal divisions cost the party its parliamentary majority, state media said Friday.
Fri, Dec 11, 2009
Harare — PARLIAMENTARIANS will soon be appealing for the executive to bring laws to the legislative body prescribing stiffer penalties for those convicted of corruption to effectively deal with the vice, a legislator has said.
Fri, Dec 11, 2009
Women of Zimbabwe Arise Co-Founders Magodonga Mahlangu and Jenni Williams said they are being harassed after being presented with the 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award by President Obama
Fri, Dec 11, 2009
Youths loyal to President Robert Mugabe threatened Zimbabwe's leading cellphone network, Econet Wireless, after intercepting "anti-Mugabe" SMSs.
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