Wed, Feb 24, 2010
Harare Zimbabwe and Botswana officials are meeting in the Zimbabwean resort town of Victoria Falls as efforts intensify to ease tensions between the southern African neighbours sparked by last month’s detention of three Batswana rangers for illegally entering Zimbabwean territory.
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
Harare - The world's oldest head of state, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, turned 86 on Sunday, with no indication that he plans to give up his long hold on power. Mugabe, who came to power after independence in 1980, has led the southern African country for 30 years. He is to mark his birthday, as he has in previous years, with a lavish public feast next Saturday.
Tue, Nov 29, 2011
A student has been left feeling a little red-faced after an embarrassing incident with a monkey made her a global star. Charmian Chen, who just happens to be a model, was visiting the Sacred Monkey Forest Ubud in Bali last month when two of the primates decided she was a little overdressed.The 22-year-old student, from Taiwan, was on holiday on the tropical Indonesian island feeding long-tailed macaques when she was singled out.
Fri, Feb 26, 2010
Guests will enjoy lobster, prawns and caviar to be washed down with bottles of Johnnie Walker Blue Label and Chevas Regal whiskies.
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
The death threats? Too numerous to count. The serious attempts on his life ranged from make-believe doctors offering potentially fatal ``medicine'' to a traffic accident that was no accident at all.
Tue, Feb 23, 2010
MUTARE, Zimbabwe (AlertNet) - The double pressures of climate change and poverty threaten to make Africa one of the regions hardest hit by coming climate-related problems. Nowhere is that more evident than in Zimbabwe, where the urban poor already struggle to survive in a harsh economic climate.
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema's millionaire lifestyle is being bank-rolled by lucrative government contracts awarded to his companies.
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
When outsiders hear news of Zimbabwe, it’s usually tragic: hyperinflation driving the economy into ruin, white farmers beaten and chased off their land, dubious election results keeping Robert Mugabe in power. So when locals say they’re hopeful about the future, you’d be forgiven for being surprised writes Christine Nikol in The Daily Caller.
Mon, Feb 22, 2010
Did the United Nations ignore Zimbabwe's 2008 cholera outbreak to please Harare?
Fri, Aug 13, 2010
Mugabe is now shadow of the president who used to deliver thought - provoking speeches and would transcend all corners of the country with such enthusiasm and energy even his bodyguards struggled to keep up with his energetic and quick movements.
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Some donors would be willing to cancel Zimbabwe's 5.4 billion dollar foreign debt, if the strained unity government presents a united proposal to settle it, the finance minister said Thursday.
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
HARARE – Indigenisation Minister Saviour Kasukuwere on Wednesday told ZimOnline that regulations to force foreign firms to offload controlling stake to local blacks will come into force next Monday, appearing to brush aside objections to the controversial rules by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Harare — Willowvale Mazda Motor Industries is on the verge of collapse after failing to secure US$3,4 million to repay the debt it owes Itochu, a Japanese company, which supplies Mazda kits.
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
Reports said the Reserve Bank ordered US$13 million in maize seed from Seed Co. International in 2007 and 2008, paid US$10 million of that, then failed to pay the balance as promised reports VOA
Tue, Feb 23, 2010
DIVERSIFIED miner African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) was considering an investment in a world-class platinum group metals ore body in Zimbabwe, but was concerned about ensuring that it acquired any assets in that country legally and ethically, chairman Patrice Motsepe said yesterday.
Mon, Feb 22, 2010
Zimbabwe said Monday it would keep foreign currencies as legal tender in the country until 2012, when it expects the economy to have recovered enough to re-introduce the domestic currency.
Mon, Feb 22, 2010
HARARE – Struggling Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) Holdings has extended electricity power cuts across the country following the complete loss of power from Hwange Thermal Power Station, the firm said.
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
Harare - China has told the Zimbabwean coalition government not to expect further loans from Beijing until it pays its existing debts, Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara was quoted as saying Sunday.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
WASHINGTON - International Monetary Fund member countries on Friday restored Zimbabwe's voting rights after a seven-year suspension but said it could not have access to IMF funds until it had paid off $1.3 billion in arrears.
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Zimbabwe is owed more than US$3 million by Zambia for maize delivered about 10 years ago, according to the Herald newspaper of Zimbabwe.
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s labour movement has called for an investigation into mining of diamonds at the controversial Chiadzwa field, amid allegations that top officials from President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party and the military are looting the gemstones for sale on the international black-market for precious stones.
Tue, Feb 23, 2010
Ten years into Zimbabwe's land reforms, lifelong farmer John Browning has found a job at a food company's factory in Harare, supervising the night shift.
Mon, Feb 22, 2010
HARARE,(PlusNews) - A new Zimbabwean short film on multiple concurrent sexual partnerships (MCPs) runs for just 24 minutes, but the producers are hoping that its message will last much longer.
Mon, Feb 22, 2010
HARARE, - A measles outbreak has hit 28 of Zimbabwe's 62 districts and is still spreading, but efforts to vaccinate people in some quarters is being hampered by religious convictions.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
A wooden object claimed to be a replica of the Biblical Ark of the Covenant has gone on display at a Zimbabwe museum.
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
HARARE -- West African soccer kingpins and 2010 Africa Cup of Nations finalists, Ghana, could relieve Zimbabwe’s desperate attempts to lure a World Cup qualifying team to camp in the troubled southern African country before the tournament swings into life in South Africa in June, a Ghanaian Cabinet minister said last week.
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
Johannesburg---Zimbabwe has been handed a tricky draw for the 2012 CAF African Nations Cup that will be held in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
Zimbabwe has appointed former England batsman Alan Butcher as its new national cricket coach, replacing Walter Chawaguta who had been in the post since August 2008, APA learns here Sunday.
Fri, Jan 20, 2012
THE SEARCH is off, lads – the G-spot DOESN'T exist.
Fri, Feb 26, 2010
HARARE – A key state witness – supposed to be an information technology (IT) expert – turned out to be just a cable layer after he was unmasked by defence lawyers of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s top aide Roy Bennett, who is facing terrorism charges.
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
A Zimbabwe - born therapist who sexually assaulted four women as he massaged them at a leading country house hotel and spa was jailed today for six years.
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
In a keynote speech delivered at the 2010 CIBJO Congress in Munich, Germany, Eli Izhakoff, the chairman of the World Diamond Council (WDC), urged decisive action to end the intolerable situation in the Marange diamond fields of Zimbabwe. Izhakoff said that the Kimberley Process (KP) remains the best vehicle to combat those carrying out criminal acts in the region. The following is the full text of his address:
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
Amnesty International has called on the government of Zimbabwe to end harassment and intimidation of a union activist who is in hiding after police raided a union office in Harare on Wednesday.
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
HARARE - Lawyers for Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett disputed on Wednesday a state witness' evidence backing up emails linking Bennett to a terrorism plot, saying he was not suitably qualified to declare their authenticity.
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
Zimbabweans living in a temporary refugee camp in De Doorns in South Africa stayed away from work yesterday after being frightened by rumours of a protest by locals.
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
Gordon Brown today offered a "full and unconditional" apology to tens of thousands of British children exiled overseas who suffered physical and sexual abuse in orphanages and labour farms in Commonwealth countries including Zimbabwe.
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe on 19 February 2010 gazetted the establishment of the long awaited Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) amid expectations that the Commission will immediately call for applications for licenses for new and old players in the print media.
Tue, Feb 23, 2010
HARARE – A State witness in the ongoing terrorism trial of MDC treasurer general Roy Bennett left the court in stitches Tuesday when he vehemently begged the court to proceed with cross-examining him saying he wanted to travel to work in Mozambique the same night.
Tue, Feb 23, 2010
Zimbabwean legislation signed into law two weeks ago compelling companies with assets worth more than $500,000 to be 51 percent black-owned has confused investors and should be changed, Energy and Power Development Minister Elias Mudzuri said.
Mon, Feb 22, 2010
Robert Mhlanga, a former Air Force vice Marshal, told the House Mining Committee that he was prepared to answer all questions about the Marange operations of his Mbada Holdings firm, but the committee insisted on quizzing all directors reports The Voice Of America.
Mon, Feb 22, 2010
SOUTH African police investigating a car crash involving kwaito star Mandoza have reportedly stumbled on a sophisticated asset fraud scam worth millions of Rand and said to involve Zimbabweans.
Mon, Feb 22, 2010
China, in a rare show of support for diplomatically isolated Zimbabwe, China’s embassy in Harare threw President Mugabe a party to celebrate his 86th birthday. The party was held yesterday at the embassy premises and was attended by Mugabe himself and his closest political allies.
Mon, Feb 22, 2010
Harare – The clash between Zimbabwe’s Speaker of House of Assembly Lovemore Moyo and the country’s Clerk of Parliament has widened with the former threatening the latter with unspecified action over leaking of confidential documents.
Mon, Feb 22, 2010
In Zimabwe, the exclusive and lucrative contract to sell Fifa's World Cup hospitality packages has been awarded to president Robert Mugabe's nephew, businessman and former Zanu-PF MP Philip Chiyangwa, who is the subject of international sanctions.
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
Johannesburg, - The South African African government says it is working towards a free and fair election in Zimbabwe at a time when the country's parliamentary committee on the constitution is saying it is impossible for Zimbabwe to have elections before 2013.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
HARARE, Zimbabwe -- More than 2,000 civil servants marched in Zimbabwe's capital to demand a nearly four-fold raise.
Fri, Jan 20, 2012
The Zimbabwe Independent newspaper reported that the panel is running through US$100,00 dollars a week on accommodation and travel costs and sitting allowances for the 25 members of the committee
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, Feb 25, 2010
KASANE - Zimbabwe has released Botswana government properties, which it had impounded when police arrested three wildlife scouts at Lesoma last month.
Tue, Feb 23, 2010
A strike by civil servants appeared to be losing steam Tuesday with most government workers interviewed by Newsreel admitting they had gone back to work. Civil servants have been on strike for over two weeks now with government insisting it does not have the money to pay the US$630 a month salaries they are demanding.
Tue, Feb 23, 2010
Harare — The country is likely to experience acute power deficits after complete loss of power generation at Hwange Thermal Power Station.
Mon, Feb 22, 2010
MARONDERA - Losing Zanu (PF) councilors here are holding on to power despite having been rejected by residents in the March 2008 elections.
Mon, Feb 22, 2010
A year into a power-sharing agreement that was supposed to put an end to President Robert Mugabe's autocratic rule, Zimbabwe has made "insufficient" moves towards democracy, European Union foreign ministers said.
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe on Friday appointed the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC), one several commission meant to open democratic space and reform Zimbabwe’s politics.
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
BULAWAYO — Senators last week admitted their roles were not clearly spelt out and consequently were not adding real value to the Upper House re-introduced five years ago. The senators who were attending a workshop on the new constitution-making process organised by the Zimbabwe Institute said they were duplicating the work of MPs.
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
THE Zimbabwe/Botswana Joint Permanent Commission will meet in Victoria Falls next week to, among other issues, discuss the stand-off that emerged between the two countries over the arrest of three Tswana rangers who illegally entered the country, a Cabinet Minister confirmed yesterday.
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
President Mugabe says the ' illegal' Western sanctions will not achieve their intended objective of dividing the inclusive Government. He said the European Union’s decision this week to extend the embargo was designed to offset unity between Zimbabwe’s political parties.
Fri, Feb 26, 2010
The diplomatic row sparked by the arrest and subsequent conviction of three armed Batswana game rangers who had strayed into Zimbabwe has been resolved.
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
South Africa will seek to win British support for an end to targeted sanctions against Zimbabwe during President Jacob Zuma’s state visit to the UK next week.
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
Kinshasa - Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has carried out a wideranging cabinet reshuffle, excluding former rebels, changing 20 posts and dropping a deputy minister at the centre of a mining review.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
The Cape Town student who gave President Jacob Zuma's blue light convoy the finger has apologised for his actions, the Police Ministry said on.
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met members of a hit squad at Mossad headquarters shortly before they went to Dubai to kill a Hamas commander, Britain's Sunday Times newspaper reported.
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
A Harare businesswoman reportedly burnt down her husband’s Borrowdale house destroying household property and a vehicle worth millions of United States dollars, over a marital dispute.
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
HARARE - The murky saga of diamonds mined in eastern Zimbabwe has once more been aired in the courts, with the ZANU-PF mining minister Obert "Chiadzwa" Mpofu ordered to return 29 kilograms of rough stones he took from the central bank where they had been deposited for safekeeping.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
The murky saga of diamonds mined in eastern Zimbabwe has once more been aired in the courts, with the ZANU-PF mining minister Obert Mpofu ordered to return 29 kilograms of rough stones he took from the central bank where they had been deposited for safekeeping reports VOA.
Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Farmtec attorney Davison Kanokanga, said the deputy sheriff has made several fruitless trips to the RBZ seeking to have the property in Mutare and Nyanga, Manicaland province, handed over to auctioneers
Mon, Jul 26, 2010
Below is the full audio recording of the Deputy Prime minister's speech and question and answer in London to Zimbabweans in Diaspora on 24/08/2010
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
Harare - Zimbabwe's ailing tourist industry is hoping to restore its health by luring South African holidaymakers eager to escape the football madness of the World Cup.
Tue, Aug 17, 2010
So how did Mugabe make all this money?
Tue, Jul 27, 2010
Taking you back in time with all the buses that transported millions of Britons across the island
Tue, Jul 27, 2010
24 th August Address by Deputy Prime minister Mutambara. London UK
Sun, Dec 25, 2011
A YOUNG South African singer serenaded billionaire Sir Richard Branson's daughter when she exchanged wedding vows at a Caribbean island on Tuesday.
Sat, Jun 11, 2011
In general, supposedly hilarious videos that "take the internet by storm" make us cringe a bit, but this one's a goodie. Apparently this is a real human lady's dating profile video. But it might just be someone having a larf. Or it might be a bit of cunning viral marketing on eHarmony's part (although suggesting that their site is full of crazy cat ladies is a bit of a risky strategy). Either way, it did tickle us so. Have a watch and see what you think.
Sun, Dec 25, 2011
A YOUNG South African singer serenaded billionaire Sir Richard Branson's daughter when she exchanged wedding vows at a Caribbean island on Tuesday.
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