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  • Minister Charged With Insulting Mugabe Acquitted

    WASHINGTON -- Zimbabwean Energy Minister and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change deputy treasurer Elton Mangoma was Friday acquitted on charges of insulting President Robert Mugabe. Mangoma was arrested in October last year and charged with contravening Section 33 (2) (a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act. His purported crime? On May 18 ...

  • Africas Future Unclear as AU Celebrates 50 Years

    WASHINGTON, DC -- There is a saying: "with age comes wisdom." As the African Union (AU) celebrates turning 50 years old on Saturday at its headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, many are asking whether the institution is any smarter and more effective as it faces mounting security and developmental challenges across the ...

  • Facebook character stirs up Zimbabwe politics

    Baba Jukwa on Facebook for a few months now, on the advice of a businessman and friend in Harare who was convinced that this was something special, something important - a genuine insider's account of the factional battles and corruption with President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF. It is certainly been an interesting read at an important time in Zimbabwe, with elections likely within the ...

  • Football Week in Review May 24 2013

    Chelsea's Ashley Cole (top) challenges Benfica's Eduardo Salvio during their Europa League final soccer match at the Amsterdam Arena May 15, 2013. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir (NETHERLANDS - Tags: SPORT SOCCER) - ...

  • Zim Can Have More Radio TV Stations

    ZIMBABWE has enough frequencies to licence more radio and television stations despite assertions by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) and Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (Baz) that the frequency spectrum is fully utilised. The Media and Technology Trust (MTT), a local advocacy group for media freedom and access to information, says since the analogue ...


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Killers

Killers

Like Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Doug Limans action-comedy of ber-violent marital discord that is now remembered as the film that jump-started Brangelina, Killers attempts to satirize the banality of domesticity via a story about secret assassins. Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Hei ... ...

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  • Political Deal Cutting As MDC-T Primaries Begin

    The MDC-T's long-awaited primary elections commence this weekend amid accusations that behind the scenes some aspiring candidates are cutting deals while others have subtly been blocked from contesting against party heavyweights through the controversial confirmation process. The divisive process reignites deep-seated factionalism within the party, particularly in volatile Manicaland, ...

  • Politburo Supports Mujuru to Succeed Mugabe

    VICE-PRESIDENT Joice Mujuru has virtually secured a copper-bottomed guarantee to take over as the next president of Zimbabwe in the event that President Robert Mugabe resigns, is incapacitated or dies in office, provided he wins the next elections, it has emerged. Senior Zanu PF politburo members said this week, barring unforeseen events and circumstances, Mujuru was almost assured of taking ...

  • Zim Struggles to Turn Human Rights Corner

    WHENEVER its democratic and human rights record has been criticised, President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF often retorts; it cannot be condemned for its abuses because it actually brought respect of human rights and democracy in the first place at Independence in 1980. Zanu PF officials say Mugabe's regime has done well in other areas, including education, health and land redistribution, ...

  • Chiweshe Guvava Join Constitutional Court

    JUDGE President George Chiweshe and Justice Antoinette Guvava are now acting judges of the newly established nine-member Constitutional Court that started work yesterday when it heard a Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) application challenging the ill-treatment of people living with HIV in detention by police and prison officers. Chiweshe and Guvava joined Chief Justice Godfrey ...

  • Zimbabwe Zim Faces Food Crisis

    THIRTEEN years after its fast track land reform programme, Zimbabwe is still importing most of its food and is far from regaining its breadbasket status. Analysts have said the discordant land tenure system ushered in after the reforms remains an albatross around the economy's neck. However, President Robert Mugabe appears to ignore that the country needs a deep relook at land ...

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