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  • Election Funding Remains Elusive For Zimbabwe As South Africa Refers Request To Regional Body

    South Africa’s finance minister Pravin Gordhan has recommended that Zimbabwe sends its election funding appeal to the Southern African Development Community for consideration, contradicting remarks by the country’s deputy foreign minister, Ebhrahim Ebhrahim, last week that Pretoria was willing to help fund Zimbabwe’s elections. Gordhan was responding to questions in the ...

  • Mugabe Signs New Constitution Into Law Paving Way For Crucial Polls

    HARARE -- President Robert Mugabe today signed into law a new constitution that curbs the powers of his office and clears the way for fresh elections, marking a new era for the country that has been run under the Lancaster House Constitution since independence from Britain in 1980. President Mugabe smiled and shook hands with fellow unity government principals, including long-time rival, ...

  • Mugabe signs Zimbabwe constitution paving way for vote

    1 of 3. Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (R) looks on as President Robert Mugabe signs Zimbabwe's new constitution into law in the capital Harare, May 22, ...

  • Tsvangirai Holds Bilateral Talks With Chinese Vice Premier

    HARARE -- Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai today held bilateral talks with the visiting Chinese vice premier, Wang Yang, which centered on trade between the two countries as well as the political situation in Zimbabwe. Mr. Tsvangirai told the Chinese vice premier that a new government that will be elected in fresh elections expected to be held this year will continue to engage the Chinese to ...

  • World Mugabe signs constitution into law

    constitution into law on Wednesday, replacing a 33-year-old document forged in the dying days of British colonial rule and paving the way for an election later this ...


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The Devil Wears Prada [DVD]

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  • Mugabe Paves The Way For Zimbabwe Elections

    President Robert Mugabe has cleared the path to crucial elections later this year by signing Zimbabwe's new constitution into law. The 89-year-old, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, signed the document two months after it was overwhelmingly approved by Zimbabweans at a referendum. "This is a happening of joy, great joy indeed," Mr Mugabe said at ...

  • Zimbabwe gets a new constitution

    Zimbabweans overwhelmingly approved a new draft constitution paving way for elections scheduled for later this year, the country's electoral commission announced Wednesday. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced that the draft constitution had received 3,079,966 votes, just fewer than 93 percent of the votes ...

  • Makomo Mine - Defying Odds

    Day after day of cloudless skies sucks moisture from mother earth, baking dry the black-and-tan soil that stretches for thousands of hectares. More than a dozen of steel dinosaurs (heavy mining equipment)- wreck, pluck and pull down the huge mopane and baobab trees, with jaws that rip off the womb of the earth. When the wrecking is done, the diggers come in cutting gashes in the black-and-tan ...

  • New Zimbabwe constitution can usher in new culture of human rights

    Zimbabwe's new constitution presents a golden opportunity for the country to break away from a culture of impunity for human rights violations, Amnesty International said today.President Robert Mugabe today signed into law a new constitution, following a three-year constitution-making process to replace the Lancaster House constitution adopted at independence in 1980."The new ...

  • Humble Tsvangirai I Presume

    Today Please Call Me Humble Caesar Zvayi, I Am Really, Really Desperate to Be Humble. for a Humble Life Is What I Have Been Trying to Build Since the Day I Earned My First Salary but Alas, I Didn't Know What Such a Life Entails Till I Heard It From the Lips of Our Prime Minister, the "Humble" Right Honourable Morgan Richard Tsvangirai. The man lives a "humble" life in a ...

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