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  • Zimbabwe Poll Date in Flux After Regional Body Calls for Delay

    JOHANNESBURG Regional leaders have requested that Zimbabwe's government delay upcoming elections to give the troubled nation time to make sure the vote is free and fair. President Robert Mugabe set elections for July 31, saying he was complying with a ruling of the Constitutional Court. The request from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) supports the argument of Prime ...

  • Zimbabwe - Journalist in Zimbabwe battling for life after being kidnapped assaulted

    Freelance journalist, Paul Pindani, is reportedly battling for life after he was abducted from his home and severely assaulted in Mashonaland West's provincial capital of Chinhoyi on Friday, 14 June 2013.Pindani was assaulted by at least three assailants who are not yet known. Reports say the journalist's attackers, who were wearing masks, went to his home, knocked and upon opening the ...

  • Will crucial Zimbabwe poll end up being more of the same

    AND so it begins. The build-up to the election in Zimbabwe has many worrying hallmarks of previous flawed elections. President Robert Mugabe is still ruling by decree when it suits him, as the unilateral declaration of the July 31 election date shows; Zanu (PF) is still using its state-owned propaganda machine to distort information and undermine its partners in the unity government; it is still ...

  • Zimbabwe Urged To Increase Awareness On Green Practices

    HARARE, Zimbabwe, June 18 (Bernama) -- The government should continue raising awareness on sustainable living practices (going green) as a way of protecting the environment, Zimbabwe's news agency, New Ziana, reported, quoting an expert as saying on Monday. Going green entails adopting practices and systems that reduce the emission of green house gases that cause global warming leading ...

  • Parliament Expected to Debate Electoral Amendments Tuesday

    WASHINGTON -- Parliament is Tuesday expected to debate for adoption amendments to the Electoral Act as directed by Southern African Development Community leaders at a summit in Maputo, Mozambique, Saturday. Cabinet agreed on the amendments but President Robert Mugabe used the Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) Act to pass them into law, by-passing parliament when he announced July 31st ...


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Redbelt [Blu-Ray]

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  • ZIFA Under Fire as Warriors Crush Out of World Cup Qualifiers

    WASHINGTON -- It was the same story Sunday night when the Warriors crushed out of yet another crucial soccer competition. Zimbabwe was beaten 2-0 by Guinea in Conakry leaving fans angry at the Zimbabwe Football Association, which they blame for failing the team and the country. Furious fans now want ZIFA to go back to drawing board to revamp football at national level. The football mother ...

  • Electoral Body to Fight Biased Election Reporting

    The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) on Monday said it will start taking action against journalists and media houses for "unbalanced and unfair reporting" as the country heads for national elections. Addressing editors from different media houses, ZEC chairperson Justice Rita Makarau said the electoral body has already started monitoring news reports to ensure biased reporting is ...

  • Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe in electoral climbdown as he agrees to push back date of vote from end of July

    Robert Mugabe has acceded to regional pressure and agreed to push back the date for elections in Zimbabwe. The 89-year-old president had risked a constitutional crisis by using special powers to announce polls on 31 ...

  • African Union commission chief says up to Zimbabwe to sort out election row

    GENEVA (Reuters) - Zimbabweans themselves must resolve a row over President Robert Mugabe's decision to call an election on July 31, the head of the African Union commission said on Monday. Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court ordered Mugabe two weeks ago to hold the poll by the end of July, but Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has rejected his rival's declaration, saying it was too ...

  • MDC-T Activists Victims of Injustice or Sour Grapes

    HARARE -- Chegutu East-based activists of the MDC formation of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai today besieged the party’s headquarters complaining that elections to choose their parliamentary candidates over the weekend were marred by irregularities. Violence was also reported in the party’s primaries in Harare’s Epworth constituency. More than 30 MDC-T activists from ...

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