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  • EU Avails $17 Million to Revamp Zimbabwe Education

    HARARE -- The Global Partnership for Education, a multilateral partnership devoted to ensuring more children enroll in schools the world over, will Wednesday decide on Zimbabwe’s $23 million application for teacher-retraining as the country continues to revamp the education sector which suffered greatly at the height of the country’s economic and political problems. Education ...

  • China vice-premier in Zimbabwe for start of trade and development trip before Africa summit

    HARARE, Zimbabwe - Chinese vice-premier Wang Yang has arrived in Zimbabwe at the start of an official trip to view his nation's burgeoning trade and development ties in Africa. Officials at the Harare airport said Tuesday that the third ranking of China's four vice-premiers in President Xi Jinping's communist party is scheduled to meet with Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on ...

  • GMO Debate Rages on in Zimbabwe

    WASHINGTON DC -- Agricultural experts, economists and social scientists are this evening expected to debate the contentious issue of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in Harare. The debate, organised by a non-governmental organization – Food Matters Zimbabwe – will be chaired by Professor Sam Moyo, director of the African Institute for Agrarian Studies. It will feature ...

  • China vice-premier arrives in Zimbabwe

    HARARE, Zimbabwe -; Chinese vice-premier Wang Yang has arrived in Zimbabwe at the start of an official trip to view his nation's burgeoning trade and development ties in ...

  • NGOs Urge Zimbabwe to Restart Voter Registration Exercise

    HARARE -- Zimbabwe’s civil society organizations want the government to re-start the mobile voter registration exercise that ended Sunday amid concerns that the program was marred by several irregularities resulting in many eligible voters failing to register. Some civil society organizations that monitored the mobile voter registration exercise said the program failed dismally in its ...


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The Horse Whisperer

Robert Redford is very good at playing characters who have incredible, God-given gifts, but are able to act like ordinary people. In "The Natural" (1984), he played the fallen angelic character of Roy Hobbs, the baseball player who was destined to be "the best there ever was," but still acted like a humble farm boy. In "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969), he was the most dangerous shot in ... ...

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  • Zimbabwe Stock Exchange Plans IPO as Index Rallies 38

    Zimbabwe 's stock exchange, whose main industrial index has jumped 38 percent this year, plans to sell shares through an initial public offering by the end of 2013, according to the country's Securities Exchange Commission. The market value of shares listed on the bourse may nearly double to $10 billion from the current $5.4 billion over the next 12 months as it plans to start ...

  • New Constitution Binds ZEC to Another 30-Day Voter Registration Exercise

    The mobile voter registration exercise ended Sunday amid an outcry from all corners of the country that the exercise was poorly conducted and dismally failed to meet demand. The just-ended 20-day programme, which was controversial from the start, ran from April 29th until May 19th with revelations that registration teams only covered a third of the country's 1,958 wards. Last week cabinet ...

  • MDC Policy Document Can Help Party Win Crucial Elections

    Veteran MDC-T activist Grace Kwinjeh said on Monday that her party has produced one of the best policy documents and it will resonate well with the voters in the forthcoming elections. Speaking on SW Radio Africa's Election Watch program, the former deputy secretary for International Relations urged all party activists to use the document to convince voters to support the MDC-T. Kwinjeh ...

  • Lecturer Jailed Over Mugabe Donkey Jibe

    A university lecturer in Masvingo has been sentenced to three months in jail, after allegedly calling Robert Mugabe a "rotten old donkey." Chenjerai Pamhiri, who lectures at the Great Zimbabwe State University in Masvingo, was convicted last Friday for insulting the President and is being held in remand prison. A bail hearing for Pamhiri is set to be heard sometime this week. His ...

  • Foreign Owned Shops Face Closure After Ultimatum

    Shops and other businesses owned by non-Zimbabwean nationals across the country could soon close down, in the wake of a six month ultimatum published by the government. A Government Gazette published last week Friday has given all businesses operating in 'reserved' sectors a six month ultimatum to comply with new regulations, which require them to apply for indigenisation compliance ...

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