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  • Jonathan Manthorpe Zimbabwes ray of hope with a new constitution

    Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe (left) signs into law the Zimbabwe’s new constitution next to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (right) at the State House in Harare, on May 22, 2013. The 89-year-old, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, signed the document two months after it was overwhelmingly approved by Zimbabweans in a ...

  • The World Today podcast Zimbabwes new constitution

    Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe signs draft constitution. Zimbabwe's president of 33 years, Robert Mugabe, on Wednesday signed a new constitution which many believe offers the southern African country its first real hope for political and economic revival. Zimbabwe’s people have suffered more than a decade of murderous repression by the regime, collapse of the country's once ...

  • Zimbabwe Saints of Dictatorship Versus Prisoners of Defunct Legitimacy

    The events of 2008 in Zimbabwe led to bloodshed and the present-day Government of National Unity. ZANU PF has exposed its cast-iron willpower to thwart the implementation of any meaningful reforms and the prognosis for the 2013 elections appears ...

  • Zimbabwe Spy Chief Convicted of Electoral Violence Pardoned by Mugabe Dies

    WASHINGTON -- The Deputy Director (internal) of the Central Intelligence Organization (CIO), Elias Kanengoni, died Thursday. His elder brother, Alexander Kanengoni, said the spy boss was taken ill at a private clinic in Harare on Wednesday night and was pronounced dead Thursday. Kanengoni had been campaigning to represent Zanu-PF as a senatorial candidate for the Mazowe constituency in ...

  • 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 ...


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I Am Curious—Blue (Jag ärr nyfiken—en film i blått) [DVD]

I Am Curious—Blue (Jag ärr nyfiken—en film i blått) [DVD]

I Am CuriousYellow would mostly likely be a forgotten movieleft somewhere in the multitudinous ranks of 1960s experimental avant-garde films that mix sex and politicsif the U.S. Customs Office hadnt seized the first copy being imported by its distributor, Grove Press, into the United States in 1968. In its misguided attempt to protect decent American citizens from Swedish obscenity, the gov ... ...

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  • $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 ...

  • 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 ...

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