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  • Chinamasa Ordered to Withdraw Court Application for Fresh Election Date

    HARARE -- Unity government principals met at State House on Wednesday and ordered Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa to withdraw his application seeking an extension of the election date to August 14th. The meeting followed complaints by the two Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) formations in the coalition government that Mr. Chinamasa had acted outside the directive of the Southern ...

  • ZCTU Workers Need Special Days for Voter Registration

    HARARE -- The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) wants the government to designate special off days to allow workers time to register as voters in time for this year’s elections. The umbrella body of all labour unions in the country says the second phase of the mobile voter registration exercise is too slow with people spending up to five hours on queues before successfully ...

  • Zimbabwe’s bovine bank a cash cow

    William Mukurazita’s deposit at the bank has four legs and moos. Zimbabwe’s first ';cattle bank'; has just opened its books in a unique kind of banking where owners bring in their animals as collateral against cash loans. For many rural poor in the southern African country once wracked by world-record inflation, it’s the first bank account they’ve ever had. ...

  • State Medias Politically Inflammatory Language Misguided

    The state media's use of politically inflammatory language ahead of the anticipated application for extension of time by Government to the Constitutional Court as recommended by SADC is a cause for concern because it undermines the judicial process by creating an impression that the matter has been pre-judged and will not be given fair consideration by the court. It is clear that the state ...

  • Zim treason charges for viewing Egypt on TV

    The Robert Mugabe government on 19 February ordered the arrest of 46 activists attending a meeting organised by the International Socialist Organisation at which footage of the Egypt protests were shown and discussed. These 46 now have been charged with treason. "They were watching DVD news clips of the protests in Tunisia and Egypt," Roselyn Hanzi of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human ...


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  • Zimbabweans missing after Egypt party

    Five young Zimbabweans have gone "missing" after celebrating the victory of the Egyptian revolution. The five opposition supporters are believed to be in ...

  • Zimbabwe mining taxes disappear

    Millions of dollars in royalties paid by diamond mining firms in eastern Zimbabwe have disappeared, a parliamentary committee found, amid fears they could be used to finance harassment in forthcoming ...

  • Robert Mugabes party asks court to delay Zimbabwe elections

    Robert Mugabe at the SADC meeting of regional leaders, who called for the Zimbabwe election deadline to be pushed back. Photograph: Ferhat Momade/AFP/Getty ...

  • U.S. State Departments Yamamoto At Senate Hearing On Zimbabwe

    U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Written statement by Acting Assistant Secretary Donald Yamamoto, Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African ...

  • AU on collision course with Sadc over Zimbabwe elections

    The African Union has dispatched a nine member advance team of election observers to Zimbabwe ahead of polls President Mugabe wants held by July 31.Mugabe, through his Justice minister Patrick Chinamasa on Tuesday filed a Constitutional Court application seeking a two week extension to the poll date following advice from regional leaders at the weekend.But indications are that the veteran ruler ...

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