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  • NGOs Urge Zimbabwe to Restart Voter Registration Exercise

    HARARE -- Zimbabwe’s civil society organizations want the government to re-start the mobile voter registration exercise that ended Sunday amid concerns that the program was marred by several irregularities resulting in many eligible voters failing to register. Some civil society organizations that monitored the mobile voter registration exercise said the program failed dismally in its ...

  • Zimbabwe Stock Exchange Plans IPO as Index Rallies 38

    Zimbabwe 's stock exchange, whose main industrial index has jumped 38 percent this year, plans to sell shares through an initial public offering by the end of 2013, according to the country's Securities Exchange Commission. The market value of shares listed on the bourse may nearly double to $10 billion from the current $5.4 billion over the next 12 months as it plans to start ...

  • New Constitution Binds ZEC to Another 30-Day Voter Registration Exercise

    The mobile voter registration exercise ended Sunday amid an outcry from all corners of the country that the exercise was poorly conducted and dismally failed to meet demand. The just-ended 20-day programme, which was controversial from the start, ran from April 29th until May 19th with revelations that registration teams only covered a third of the country's 1,958 wards. Last week cabinet ...

  • MDC Policy Document Can Help Party Win Crucial Elections

    Veteran MDC-T activist Grace Kwinjeh said on Monday that her party has produced one of the best policy documents and it will resonate well with the voters in the forthcoming elections. Speaking on SW Radio Africa's Election Watch program, the former deputy secretary for International Relations urged all party activists to use the document to convince voters to support the MDC-T. Kwinjeh ...

  • Lecturer Jailed Over Mugabe Donkey Jibe

    A university lecturer in Masvingo has been sentenced to three months in jail, after allegedly calling Robert Mugabe a "rotten old donkey." Chenjerai Pamhiri, who lectures at the Great Zimbabwe State University in Masvingo, was convicted last Friday for insulting the President and is being held in remand prison. A bail hearing for Pamhiri is set to be heard sometime this week. His ...


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Fritz the Cat [DVD]

Fritz the Cat [DVD]

For his first film, writer/director Ralph Bakshi decided to do what no one else had ever tried before: Create a feature-length adult cartoon. Bakshi, an animation wunderkind who was already a 10-year veteran of the Terrytoons animation studio when he was in his early 30s, teamed up with producer Steve Krantz and raised almost $1 million for the production. The result was Fritz the Cat, a f ... ...

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  • Foreign Owned Shops Face Closure After Ultimatum

    Shops and other businesses owned by non-Zimbabwean nationals across the country could soon close down, in the wake of a six month ultimatum published by the government. A Government Gazette published last week Friday has given all businesses operating in 'reserved' sectors a six month ultimatum to comply with new regulations, which require them to apply for indigenisation compliance ...

  • Thieves Leave Mupfumis House Empty

    THIEVES on Sunday broke into Zanu-PF Central Committee member and businessman Mr Esau Mupfumi's house in Harare and made off with household property worth US$7 800. Mr Mupfumi, who operates Chinjekure Enterprises, was away when the incident occurred and he had to be called to find his house in The Grange literally empty. Two plasma television sets, one upright refrigerator, microwave, ...

  • Patients Paying for Blood From NBSZ

    MOST patients seeking treatment from public health institutions are still paying for blood directly from the National Blood Services Zimbabwe following the freezing of the institution's credit facilities for failure to pay on time. NBSZ public affairs manager Ms Ester Massundah said her organisation was owed US$$1 031 670 by public health institutions as at April 30 and an additional US$243 ...

  • Zimbabwe Supreme Court to Hear Petition On Election Date On Thursday

    A court application compelling President Robert Mugabe to announce the date for elections will be heard as an urgent matter in the Supreme Court this Thursday. This comes after chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku threw out Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's appeal against a High Court application made by a Harare man, Jealousy Mawarire, that forces Mugabe and his coalition partners to ...

  • Discord Intensifies Ahead of MDC-T Primaries

    Bulawayo Bureau - MDC-T will finally hold its primary elections on Saturday amid escalating internal disgruntlement with members accusing party bigwigs of trying to rig the outcome. The party's primaries, which were initially scheduled to take place at the beginning of the month, were postponed twice due to infighting over positions. Some party officials who spoke to this paper expressed ...

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