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  • Mujuru Working to Win Over Church Leadership to Zanu-PF

    Gweru - Vice-President Joice Mujuru has urged church leaders to participate in Zanu PF programmes in order to become economically empowered. Speaking at a Gweru ministers fraternal church service in the city yesterday, Mujuru said it was disheartening that upon retirement many church leaders ended up destitute because they would have failed to take part in programmes like the land reform and ...

  • Zimbabwe Special Zanu-PF Congress to Anoint Mujuru

    ZANU PF is mulling over a special congress which is expected to fill vacant top positions and decide once and for all the succession of President Mugabe, sources have said. Details of the congress remain a closely guarded secret, only known to very senior party officials. According to sources in the party, the current restructuring of provinces was in preparation for the special congress which ...

  • Registrar-General a Hindrance to Credible Poll

    Last week MDC-T MP Settlement Chikwinya questioned Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede's continuing role in the conduct of elections. Chikwinya, contributing to a debate on the voter registration exercise, revealed that Mudede, who is 67 years old and now past retirement age, was a hindrance to the holding of free and fair elections. The debate is laudable but unfortunately comes a tad too ...

  • Hes Not Presidential Material - Ncube

    MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai is not fit to lead Zimbabwe because he does not possess the requisite qualities for President, MDC leader Professor Welshman Ncube has said. Prof Ncube's damning assessment of the MDC-T leader comes hard on the heels of a similar evaluation by MDC-T's long time ally, the ZCTU that laid into the party for policy vacuity and branded the party's ...

  • Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission Broke

    THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission says its independence is being compromised because of the failure by Finance Minister Tendai Biti to provide funds to carry out its mandate. The commission's chairperson Mr Jacob Mudenda said last Thursday that they did not have proper offices, vehicles and staff. Mr Mudenda was speaking while giving oral evidence on the commission's operations ...


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Hardball

Harball is a sluggish, "uplifting" Hollywoodized account of a troubled man who finds unlikely redemption by coaching an inner-city baseball team. Adapted by John Gatins (Summer Catch) from Daniel Coyle's 1993 memoir and directed by Brian Robbins (Varsity Blues) as Boyz N the Hood meets The Bad News Bears, Hardball is one of those irritatingly "well-intent ... ...

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  • Zec Must Expedite CSOS Accreditation

    The Zimbabwe Election Support Network is calling on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to accredit local civic society organisations to conduct voter education, in view of the impending harmonised elections. ZESN notes that the country is already in an election mode, hence the need for ZEC to expedite the accreditation of civic society organisations that have applied to complement the ...

  • Chinese VP Expected Tomorrow

    Chinese Vice Premier Mr Wang Yang is expected in Zimbabwe tomorrow as part of efforts to strengthen bilateral relations between Harare and Beijing. Chinese ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Lin Lin made the announcement on Friday when he delivered a lecture to senior army officers at the Zimbabwe Defence College. I am glad to tell, the vice premier of China, Mr Wang Yang will visit Zimbabwe next week, ...

  • The Nations Struggle for Democracy Continues

    When analysing the post 90s struggles for democratisation in Zimbabwe and where the country finds itself now, Bob Marley's song, No Woman No Cry, has lyrics that may aptly relate to our contemporary circumstances. There are three particular lines in the song that capture the status of this same said struggle today. These are where Marley sings, "good friends we had, good friends we ...

  • Zimbabwe to institute compulsory infrastructure sharing

    Zimbabwe's government has announced plans to institute compulsory infrastructure sharing among telecommunication providers, in order to remove the duplication in investments, which saw an overinvestment in some areas of the country, resulting in environmental degradation while others have remained neglected. The permanent secretary of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure ...

  • Bottled Water Must Meet Standards

    Many businesses and thousands of Harare families have installed large tanks which they fill with municipal water when they can but usually have to buy water from the scores of new businesses that truck water around the city. The city council is now worried about the quality of that water. If they could supply enough, even only every other day or twice a week, they would not have to worry. ...

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