Thu, Mar 11, 2010
APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) South African President Jacob Zuma is expected in Zimbabwe on Tuesday next week amid reports that Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai plans to appeal to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to intervene in the country’s power-sharing dispute.
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.
Mon, Mar 08, 2010
Harare - Since testing positive for HIV six years ago, Cecilia Chinhamo has endured a torrent of verbal abuse from her husband.
Mon, Mar 08, 2010
Music by Prudence," made partly with the financial and creative support of the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore's MICA, overcame several other strong candidates, including the American labor tragedy "The Last Truck," to win best short documentary at the 2010 Academy Awards on Sunday night.
Fri, Mar 05, 2010
THE mystery surrounding the Chiadzwa diamonds continues to deepen with the alleged blockage of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines' visit to the fields for investigations wites William Chibhebhe.
Fri, Mar 05, 2010
In Zimbabwe, witchcraft is still common in rural areas. Hardly a week passes without a local report or newspaper story on the practice. For example, police recently cornered a man at the Mbare Mbare bus terminal, after they discovered a live cobra snake in his luggage. He told officers the reptile was one of his witching tools.
Thu, Mar 04, 2010
Dear Abbey: Firstly, congratulations on your appointment as the Kimberley Process (KP) monitor for Marange, Zimbabwe. It would be appropriate to say welcome back to the diamond industry, and even more appropriate to say welcome home. As a founding member and a former chairman of the process, I can’t think of any individual who is more suited to the job at hand.
Thu, Mar 04, 2010
Despite initial scepticism, Zimbabwe’s year-old unity government has achievements to its credit, but the democratic transition remains at risk, especially from hard-line security officials – President Robert Mugabe’s last reliable supporters.
Tue, Mar 02, 2010
President Jacob Zuma has touched down on his first state visit to the UK and his programme begins in earnest on Wednesday when he will be entertained by the Queen.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
MARION, ILL. — Until recently, people here had little reason to know the name John A. Bredenkamp or anything about his past, a tale worthy of a James Bond villain, filled with allegations of international arms deals, blood diamond trades and ties to despotic regimes in his native Africa.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Praise-singing politicians fall over themselves to salute Zimbabwe's leader as he nears 30 years in office
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Zimbabwe recorded a 26-run triumph in an extraordinary Twenty20 International against West Indies in Trinidad.
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
Robert Mugabe is the eldest statesman on a continent where age is seldom a barrier to power
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
The UN Commission on the Status of Women convenes in New York today (1 March) to look at gender equality and the advancement of women. The ongoing challenge is how to help young women with few choices, like Privilege Zengeni, realise their aspirations. Oxfam’s Nicole Johnston reports
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
Interview with Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa.
Tue, Mar 09, 2010
ZIMBABWE is not ready for elections, Caritas Zambia executive director Sam Mulafulafu has said.
Fri, Mar 05, 2010
Are we witnessing the resurgence of Zimbabwe?
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
ON 4 March 1980, Robert Mugabe became Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. In this article, Richard Dowden explains how this intelligent and charismatic man’s quest to hang onto power has brought down what was once one of Africa’s best economies down to the ground: wites Richard Dowden
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
In this paper, James Kilgore, a US scholar who lived and worked in Southern Africa for about 20 years reviews his book ‘We are all Zimbabweans Now’ which he wrote while in prison between 2002 and 2009. The paper explores some of the myths about the Zimbabwean story and challenges the consevative Western media’s approaches to reporting events in the country. It was presented on February 3 to the University of Illinois Centre of African Studies where Kilgore is a research scholar. Kilgore begins by outlining the plot of the story and then discusses what the novel means. This article was first published by Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
Zimbabwe's leader lavishly celebrated his birthday last night. But four in five of his country's young cannot afford to go to school writes Rachel Shields in the UK's Daily Telegraph
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.
Wed, Mar 10, 2010
The International Monetary Fund chief said Wednesday it's too soon to extend loans to troubled Zimbabwe.
Mon, Mar 08, 2010
The Zimbabwean government has launched plans for the construction of a sugarcane-to-ethanol refinery.
Thu, Mar 04, 2010
Zambia and Zimbabwe are exploring prospects of establishing a joint hydropower project at a cost of USD 2.5 million to increase generation.
Wed, Mar 03, 2010
HARARE - Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is stepping up efforts to reverse a Zanu PF looting project presented as black empowerment law.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
An insurance renewal advertisement by RM Insurance has provoked the women's rights lobby in Zimbabwe, which is demanding an apology from the company for demeaning “wives, mothers, daughters, sisters and grannies.”
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Tongaat Hulett Ltd., South Africa’s second-biggest sugar producer, considers Zimbabwe “still very turbulent” and isn’t able to predict how long it will take to meet its goal of higher output there, according to Peter Staude, the company’s chief executive officer.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s foreign-owned companies woke up on 45 days notice today to meet a government directive to draft plans on how they will sell majority stakes to blacks, leaving alarmed investors seriously considering their future and dampening the country’s recovery prospects reports Zimonline.
Fri, Mar 12, 2010
HARARE – White commercial farmers cannot attach Government properties in South Africa for compensation as all of them are protected by diplomatic protocols, a Cabinet minister has said.
Fri, Mar 12, 2010
Zimbabwe's top brass have been asked by their Malaysian counterparts to save a banana farm appropriated by a retired army officer.
Wed, Mar 10, 2010
Harare — Zimbabwe's mining sector has failed to contribute meaningfully to the country's economy in the recent years with Government now working towards reviewing tax laws to ensure maximum benefits from its huge mineral resources.
Mon, Mar 08, 2010
- Pan-African miner Mwana Africa Plc (MWA.L) said it is looking to carry out a rights issue over the next couple of months, partly to raise finance for its 53-percent owned Bindura Nickel operations in Zimbabwe.
Wed, Mar 03, 2010
Food security and economic growth are being undermined by the collapse of more than 90% of the farms that the government bought for restitution or redistribution to victims of apartheid.
Tue, Mar 02, 2010
Mbada Holdings directors failed to show up for a House Mining Committee hearing Monday despite the panel's instructions to Mbada Chairman Robert Mhlanga to produce his entire board of directors this week reports VOA.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Human Rights Watch associate director Caroll Bogert was in Israel last week, urging the government to move rapidly to end “the suffering of the innocent.”
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
HARARE, (IRIN) - Typhoid fever has killed five people in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, and 30 others were being treated for the bacterial disease, the city's health director, Stanley Mungofa, told a media briefing on 9 March 2010.
Tue, Mar 09, 2010
HARARE, March 9, 2010 - ONE of the world's leading Information and Communication Technology (ICT) companies, the Intergr8 Group Limited, says it intends to move into Zimbabwe despite the 51 percent indigenisation regulation that has become effective.
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
(A painting that depicts how the 'Ivory Bangle Lady' may have looked) Tests on the skeleton of a rich fourth-century Roman woman found in Britain reveal she was of black African ancestry.
Mon, Mar 08, 2010
Archbishop Robert C Ndlovu of Harare has made an new appeal on behalf of prisoners in Zimbabwe who are being incarcerated in appalling conditions. He said many Zimbabweans are living in severe poverty and receive no healthcare, and warned that there may be another drought, bringing a poor harvest.
Fri, Mar 05, 2010
Rome - A singer in the Vatican choir had sex with one of the pope's gentlemen-in-waiting and procured male escorts on his behalf, the Italian weekly Panorama reported on Friday.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Kate Hoey has praised the role of the churches and trade unions in Zimbabwe during an address at Southwark Cathedral.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
SYDNEY, Australia - About 5,200 naked people embraced each other on the steps of Sydney's iconic Opera House on Monday for a photo shoot by Spencer Tunick.
Wed, Mar 10, 2010
Plymouth have been successful in gaining a work permit for Zimbabwe international defender Onismor Bhasera.
Wed, Mar 03, 2010
Lewis Hamilton has announced he will no longer be managed by his dad Anthony Hamilton. The Formula One ace told the press how he wants to go back to just being his father's son without the business relationship.
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
PORT OF SPAIN — Tatenda Taibu scored 107 to set Zimbabwe up for a five-run victory over the University of the West Indies? Vice Chancellor?s XI in their 50 overs-a-side match on Friday at Frank Worrell Oval.
Fri, Jan 20, 2012
THE SEARCH is off, lads – the G-spot DOESN'T exist.
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
Zimbabwe's government has allocated 100 million dollars to refurbish the country's dilapidated infrastructure, part of the funds granted by the IMF last year, the finance minister said Thursday.
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
More than two million people in Zimbabwe, or close to one-fifth of the southern African country's population, are in need of food aid, the Red Cross said Thursday.
Wed, Mar 10, 2010
Parliamentary sources said Zvoma told the committee that it has the power to demand Mines Minister Obert Mpofu, Permanent Secretary Thankful Musukutwa and the elusive directors of Mbada Holdings answer questions on a joint venture to develop the rich Marange alluvial diamond field reports VOA
Wed, Mar 10, 2010
Namibian government could take the Zimbabwean route in distributing land to its black population after expressing frustration over the slow pace of land reform.
Wed, Mar 10, 2010
HARARE - Iranian Security agencies are training thousands of Zimbabwe’s ruthless secret spy services personnel at a secret base in Tehran, a move likely to further increase the rift between the feisty Robert Mugabe and the Western nations, particulary the United States.
Tue, Mar 09, 2010
Johannesburg - Struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela bitterly lashed out at Nelson Mandela in an interview published in the London Evening Standard this week.
Tue, Mar 09, 2010
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) meets Zimbabwean Minister of State for Presidential Affairs Didymus Mutasa in Tehran.
Tue, Mar 09, 2010
HARARE — Lawyers for a top aide to Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday told his treason trial he had no case to answer.
Tue, Mar 09, 2010
Sources said worker representatives and union leaders decided to call a return to work in response to reports of intimidation and victimization of state workers
Tue, Mar 09, 2010
Parliament's Committee on Mines had ordered Mbada Holdings Chairman Robert Mhlanga, a former Zimbabwean air vice marshal, to produce the entire Mbada board to respond to questions about Marange diamonds
Mon, Mar 08, 2010
The World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) and its Zimbabwe Advocacy Office say they are shocked at recent attacks on trade union leaders by police and security forces in Zimbabwe during a period when the southern African country is trying to reconcile bitter divides - writes Peter Kenny.
Sun, Mar 07, 2010
Harare — IN an open rebuke to Media, Information and Publicity secretary George Charamba who has been frustrating the licensing of new players in the newspaper publishing sector, President Robert Mugabe has told the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) to get on with its mandate of opening up the media space wites the Standard.
Sun, Mar 07, 2010
British scientists have succeeded in proving the Lemba tribe of Zimbabwe and South Africa descended from Jewish ancestors, according to a report by the BBC.
Fri, Mar 05, 2010
Maputo — The Pungue river burst its banks on Thursday and flooded a stretch of the Beira-Zimbabwe road, between Mutua and Tica, in the central Mozambican province of Sofala.
Fri, Mar 05, 2010
South African President Jacob Zuma has been met by protesters in London chanting "shame on you" on the last day of his state visit to Britain.
Thu, Mar 04, 2010
Harare, - Zimbabwe’s security services and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have launched investigations into a suspected assassination attempt on Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai during his hunger assessment tour of Matabeleland two weeks ago, reports South Africa-based Radio VOP.
Thu, Mar 04, 2010
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe Thursday said his country would have better relations with London if the Conservatives win the next elections.
Thu, Mar 04, 2010
ZAMBIA will this year give Zimbabwe K2.7 billion in humanitarian aid reports the Zambian Daily.
Wed, Mar 03, 2010
Zimbabwe’s unity government is reviewing rules forcing foreign-owned firms to sell a majority stake to locals, a cabinet minister said today, adding that the regulations were published prematurely last month.
Wed, Mar 03, 2010
Freelance photojournalist Andrison Manyere has been released from police custody after paying US$20 admission of guilty fine for disorderly conduct in a public place.
Tue, Mar 02, 2010
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has urged western countries to lift sanctions against Zimbabwe and stop sidelining President Robert Mugabe in resolving the Zimbabwe crisis.
Tue, Mar 02, 2010
A Zimbabwean freelance journalist was arrested today for the third time this year—this time for taking footage of prisoners outside a courthouse in the capital, Harare, according to local journalists.
Tue, Mar 02, 2010
South African industrialist Abbey Chikane, who has been appointed under the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme to monitor mining and sale of diamonds in Zimbabwe, is expected to arrive here Monday, says Mines and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu.
Tue, Mar 02, 2010
The USA will extend sanctions against Robert Mugabe's regime for another year. The sanctions include a travel ban and asset freeze on Mugabe, his wife and inner circle.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Washington – The Internet has become the third most popular news platform for American adults, trailing only local and national television stations, according to a survey released on Monday.
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
The Botswana Defense Force has reinstated all three soldiers who were involved in the Zimbabwean group sex case while the special constables who were also part of the case have been let off by the Botswana Police Service.
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
HARARE Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Saturday defended new laws that force companies to hand control of their businesses to black Zimbabweans, and warned Western investors to keep their hands off Zimbabwe's mineral wealth. (Pic: Mugabe- Mugabe the megalomaniac is not the answer to his people's wellbeing. Rather, he is the sole reason for their woes. )
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
Zimbabwe Cabinet ministers in the previous regime have been fingered in a damning report that accuses them of looting state assets ahead of the formation of the unity government last year.
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
Zimbabwe - The entire leadership of Zimbabwe's union for farm workers has gone underground after a series of raids, arrests and threats against them, lawyers said on Sunday.
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
The University of Zimbabwe is battling to recover nearly US$5 million in research funds looted from its foreign currency account by the central bank during the country's economic crisis. Meanwhile, the institution has frozen intakes in some departments as the country's brain drain takes its toll - and a nationwide lecturer strike at public universities continues.
Fri, Feb 26, 2010
A refugee charity has accused the Home Office of wasting an estimated £11 million last year by making flawed decisions on asylum claims that had to be overturned on appeal.
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, Mar 11, 2010
Dozens of people were kicked out of their homes on Thursday after a massive raid in Braamfontein. Police closed down two illegal bus ranks in the Johannesburg city centre and raided several buildings, confiscating stolen goods and drugs
Tue, Mar 09, 2010
HARARE — Zimbabwe's high court on Tuesday threw out a bid by an ally of President Robert Mugabe to nullify the election of the speaker of parliament from rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party.
Sun, Mar 07, 2010
CHITUNGWIZA, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe?s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Sunday called for an African Union and regional peacekeeping force to ensure that general elections in the country will be peaceful.
Fri, Mar 05, 2010
The national executive council of the MDC has resolved that SADC should be called in to mediate in the long running stalemate between parties in the Global Political Agreement.
Fri, Mar 05, 2010
Sources said Tsvangirai MDC party leaders took up the delays in resolving outstanding power-sharing issues, the constitutional revision process and new incidents of political intimidation or violence
Thu, Mar 04, 2010
Harare — A PROMINENT farmer and businessman here has admitted to stealing and selling 48 cattle to fugitive businessman James Makamba's wife.
Wed, Mar 03, 2010
All roads lead to Glamis Stadium in Harare on Saturday where thousands of Zimbabweans are expected to converge for the memorial service of Amai Susan Nyaradzo Tsvangirai the wife to MDC President and Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister and head of government, Morgan Tsvangirai.
Tue, Mar 02, 2010
Harare – Zimbabwe’s premier spy agency, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) has recruited hundreds of youthful street vendors and illegal street dealers as informers, a report revealed reports ZimDiaspora.
Tue, Mar 02, 2010
Harare - Prime minister and president of the MDC, Morgan Tsvangirai, will on Thursday officially open the party's regalia shop and a research and library centre at Harvest House.
Tue, Mar 02, 2010
VIGIL supporters discussed President Zuma’s state visit to the UK. We were surprised that, on the eve of his visit, he called for the lifting of EU targeted sanctions against Mugabe and his cronies.
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
THE MDC-T is demanding drastic action against Zanu PF youths who last week threatened Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai with unspecified repercussions for not advocating for the removal of sanctions imposed by western countries.
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
HARARE, – Dumisani Sibanda, news editor with thestate controlled Sunday News weekly, has bounced back as the new Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) president following a rerun of the union’s elections in Bulawayo on Saturday.
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
A Fairtarde company which sells pet beds has been backed by Reading West Tory Parliamentary hopeful Alok Sharma.
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
Harare - A visiting Danish minister is refusing to meet President Robert Mugabe, describing the aging leader as a dictator and an impediment to democracy and development of Zimbabwe.
Fri, Feb 26, 2010
A man who infected his wife with his own HIV blood so that she would resume having sex with him can now be named.
Wed, Mar 10, 2010
President Jacob Zuma finally declared his and his family's benefits and interests on Wednesday, his attorney Michael Hulley says
Tue, Mar 09, 2010
The Norwegian Minister of Environment and Development Cooperation, Erik Solheim, had asked the African Union (AU) leader, Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika to do all he can to ensure conflicts in Zimbabwe and Kenya ended amicably.
Sun, Mar 07, 2010
President Jacob Zuma's grip on power appears to be slipping - with disillusionment over his leadership reaching the level of his cabinet according to the Sunday Times
Fri, Mar 05, 2010
Johannesburg - There was a movement within the ANC to push for a motion of no confidence in South African President Jacob Zuma later this year, the SA Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu) said on Friday.
Wed, Mar 03, 2010
South African President Jacob Zuma, currently on a state visit to Britain, has lashed out his British critics, accusing them of still considering themselves superior to "barbaric" Africans, in a newspaper.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Uganda's main opposition party has accused President Yoweri Museveni of preparing his son to succeed him.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Johannesburg - A journalist working for SuperSport was kidnapped in Nigeria on Monday afternoon, SABC news reported.
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
Abidjan - He got his first one-year extension in 2005. And another in 2006. And every year since, President Laurent Gbagbo has gone through the motions of organising presidential elections, only to cancel them at the last minute.
Thu, Mar 04, 2010
London - Britain said on Thursday it wanted to see further progress on human rights and democracy in Zimbabwe before the European Union lifts sanctions against President Robert Mugabe and his allies.
Thu, Mar 04, 2010
South African President Jacob Zuma has urged the lifting of sanctions against Zimbabwe if progress is to be made in resolving Zimbabwe's political crisis.
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
A former Zimbabwe safari guide now living in Salt Lake City and seeking safe haven in the United States has won asylum after politically connected friends helped him appeal an initial rejection by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Wed, Mar 10, 2010
Professor Johnathan Moyo has appealed against the judgment passed on Tuesday by High court Judge Bharat Patel who dismissed his application of having Zimbabwe's Speaker Lovemore Moyo, relinquished of his post.
Tue, Mar 02, 2010
HARARE - A 65-year-old man was arrested in Zimbabwe on Tuesday for emailing colleagues photographs of what appears to be the interior of Robert Mugabe’s mansion.
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Pretoria - White farmers whose land was seized in Zimbabwe can be compensated with Zimbabwean assets in South Africa, the North Gauteng High Court ruled on Thursday.
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
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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