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  • Zimbabwe Election Funding Elusive as South Africa Refers Request to SADC

    WASHINGTON DC -- South Africa’s Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has recommended that Zimbabwe sends its election funding appeal to the Southern African Development Community for consideration, contradicting remarks by the country’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Ebrahim Ebrahim, last week that Pretoria was willing to help fund Zimbabwe’s elections. Gordhan was responding to ...

  • Thomas Mapfumo New Constitution Must Improve Peoples Lives

    WASHINGTON DC -- Chimurenga music guru Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo on Wednesday backed the country’s new constitution but urged authorities to use it to improve the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans. He said the country’s supreme law should not be used selectively. Speaking from Oregon, here in America shortly before leaving for London where he is expected to perform, ...

  • U.N Seeking $25 Million for Zimbabwe Food Aid

    WASHINGTON -- The United Nations World Food Programme needs nearly $25 million to ensure it meets food aid requirements in Zimbabwe over the next six months. In its monthly report, the United Nations Office of Humanitarian Affairs said the shortafall would make it difficult for the agency to assist the needy in the country from May to October. Its food agency, WFP, needs $24.5 million for ...

  • Bulawayo Council Auctions Residents Property

    BULAWAYO -- Bulawayo residents have condemned the auctioning of property belonging to residents who owe the local authority thousands of dollars in unpaid water and supplementary charges. Although the Bulawayo City Council suspended such moves last year after complaints from residents, it has since started the auctions with property from 16 households having already gone under the hammer and ...

  • Chinese vice premier calls for stability in Zimbabwe

    HARARE (AFP) - Chinese vice premier Wang Yang on Wednesday urged Zimbabwe to ensure peace and political stability ahead of elections this year, to safeguard economic growth."A peaceful and stable political environment is the prerequisite for economic development," Wang told journalists after meeting Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in Harare during a business visit to ...


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  • Zimbabwe insists on Zimplats mine seizure

    Zimbabwe vowed on Wednesday it would not roll back on plans to seize 28,000 hectares of land leased to a local subsidiary of the platinum-mining giant Impala Platinum. "If there is anyone who thinks they own land, please prepare yourselves for the shocks that will actually befall you," said mines and mineral development minister Obert Mpofu. "No one owns land especially mining ...

  • Mugabe Signs New Constitution Into Law Paving Way For Crucial Polls

    HARARE -- President Robert Mugabe today signed into law a new constitution that curbs the powers of his office and clears the way for fresh elections, marking a new era for the country that has been run under the Lancaster House Constitution since independence from Britain in 1980. President Mugabe smiled and shook hands with fellow unity government principals, including long-time rival, ...

  • Mugabe signs Zimbabwe constitution paving way for vote

    1 of 3. Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (R) looks on as President Robert Mugabe signs Zimbabwe's new constitution into law in the capital Harare, May 22, ...

  • Tsvangirai Holds Bilateral Talks With Chinese Vice Premier

    HARARE -- Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai today held bilateral talks with the visiting Chinese vice premier, Wang Yang, which centered on trade between the two countries as well as the political situation in Zimbabwe. Mr. Tsvangirai told the Chinese vice premier that a new government that will be elected in fresh elections expected to be held this year will continue to engage the Chinese to ...

  • World Mugabe signs constitution into law

    constitution into law on Wednesday, replacing a 33-year-old document forged in the dying days of British colonial rule and paving the way for an election later this ...

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