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  • Zimbabwean president rivals favour delaying polls

    Zimbabwean president and his main political rivals in the coalition government have agreed to file an application at the Constitutional Court, seeking extention of the general elections' date beyond July 31, 2013. The three leaders -- President Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, and Industry and Commerce Minister Welshman Ncube -- met Wednesday at the State House and gave consent ...

  • Zimbabwe Tourism Ministry Wants Elections Before UNWTO

    HARARE, June 20 (Bernama) - Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Walter Mzembi said elections should be held before the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) general assembly so that they get global endorsement. Mzembi told Zimbabwean news agency New Ziana that holding the general assembly before the polls is the best chance to market the country as thousands of dignitaries ...

  • Zimbabwe political rivals agree on court application for poll delay

    Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe and his main political rivals in the coalition government on Wednesday agreed on an application that will be filed at the Constitutional Court seeking to extend the election date beyond July 31 this year.The agreement followed a recommendation by Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) over the weekend urging the unity government to approach the court ...

  • Moderate Zanu-PF Lawmaker Dies in Car Accident

    WASHINGTON DC -- Moderate Zanu-PF lawmaker for Guruve South, Edward Chindori-Chininga, has died in a car accident while driving in his constituency. The former mines minister was the chairman of the parliamentary portfolio committee on mines and energy that last week produced a damning report on missing diamond funds. He survived a fatal crash last year when his vehicle collided with a 4X4 ...

  • Highlanders Fails to Consolidate League Position

    WASHINGTON -- Highlanders failed to consolidate their lead at the top of the premier soccer league table Wednesday when they lost 1-0 to a depleted Chicken Inn in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League (PSL) match at the Barbourfields Stadium. Playing after after a two-week break due to international fixtures, Bosso was hoping to use the match against Chicken Inn to consolidate its position on ...


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Thirteen Days [DVD]

Thirteen Days [DVD]

In a lean, tense two and a half hours, Roger Donaldson's Thirteen Days tells the story of the inner workings in the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis, one of the most severe political moments of the 20th century and likely the closest the world has ever come to engaging in actual nuclear exchange. The script by David Self condenses and dramatizes some 23 hours of recorded mee ... ...

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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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