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  • Zimbabwe Lawyers Say Harare Police Station Not for HIV Positive Inmates

    HARARE -- The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) says in a claim before the Supreme Court today Harare Central Police Station is no place for HIV positive inmates. In February 2011, social rights activist Douglas Muzanenhamo was arrested, along with 44 others, on charges that he was plotting Egyptian-style uprisings in Zimbabwe. Muzanenhamo says that during his detention at Harare ...

  • $10 Million Zimbabwe Youth Empowerment Fund Loses Steam

    WASHINGTON DC -- The country’s controversial indigenization program was back in the news at the weekend with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai threatening to reverse the Zanu-PF backed empowerment drive if elected president in fresh polls this year. Today parliament heard the empowerment drive is failing to attract the country’s youth with very few applying for funds under the $10 ...

  • Zimbabwe The sweet business of Harares airport road

    As part of a deal that Harare city council signed for the construction of a highway to the airport, the city is having to expand so it can award new land to the contractors. The contract says the city can pay for part of the $80m project in land, but Harare has run out of space.As a result it is re-designating agricultural land nearby.Signed in 2009, the public-private partnership is a sweet one ...

  • Bio-Diesel Project in Limbo

    THE bio-diesel plant in Mt Hampden, about 15 kilomtres northwest of Harare, could remain a white elephant after experiments showed that the jatropha plant cannot be sustainably run on a commercial basis. The bio-diesel plant, built about four years ago, is the first of its kind in Africa and only one of the few in the world. It was designed to mainly process oils extracted from jatropha seeds ...

  • President Appoints Two Judges to Supreme Court

    President Mugabe yesterday swore in two High Court judges to the Supreme Court at a ceremony held at State House. The new judges are Justices Bharat Patel and Ben Hlatshwayo and their appointment brings to nine the judges on the Supreme Court bench. Speaking in an interview after the swearing-in ceremony, Justice Hlatshwayo said he was humbled by the appointment and pledged to carry out his ...


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The Diving Bell and the Butterly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon)

The Diving Bell and the Butterly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon)

The cinema is a medium of movement. Even in the earliest days of fixed-camera actualities, when complex narrative was as fantastical an idea as a lengthy tracking shot, audiences were fascinating by movement in the frame; in other words, they dont called them ... ...

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  • New Constitution - Signed and Sealed

    PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday signed Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (Number 20) Bill into law before its subsequent publication in an extraordinary Government Gazette. The publication was made by Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda. "The following law, which has been assented to by His Excellency the President, is published in terms of section 51(5) of the ...

  • Malaria Kills 200 People Nationwide

    About 200 people have died of malaria since the beginning of the year and nearly 300 000 others have been treated. According to the Government's weekly report for week ending May 5, the most affected provinces were Manicaland and Mashonaland East. In Zimbabwe, malaria is experienced throughout the year, but cases begin in February and peak in April before they start to go down in May. ...

  • China Extends U.S $36 Million Loan for Projects

    CHINA has extended a US$36 million loan to Zimbabwe for various projects following the visit by Vice-Premier Wang Yang who met President Mugabe at State House yesterday. The agreements were signed before Mr Wang and Vice-President Joice Mujuru, after which he proceeded to meet President Mugabe.Mr Wang briefed the President on the deals. Speaking through an interpreter after the meeting, Mr ...

  • President Mugabe Condemns Suarez

    IT was highly unprofessional for Liverpool forward Luis Suarez to bite Chelsea player Branislav Ivanovic as sporting events are contests and not a declaration of war, President Mugabe has said. Last month Suarez sunk his teeth into Ivanovic's arm during a match at Anfield, attracting worldwide condemnation. He was subsequently handed a 10 match ban by the Football Association. The Head ...

  • Govt Sets Maize Price

    GOVERNMENT has set an interim producer price for maize at US$310 per tonne, up from US$295, Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Dr Joseph Made said yesterday. But in an interview, Minister Made said the final price, higher than the interim price, was still to be decided and farmers would be paid the balance once the final price is agreed. The farmers have proposed an ...

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