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  • Children Living With HIV in Zimbabwes Rural Communities Lack Treatment

    WASHINGTON -- Most children living with the HIV virus in Zimbabwe’s rural communities are failing to access life-saving anti-retroviral drugs early because new technology that can detect the virus six weeks from birth is only available at central hospitals in the cities, preventing the country from attaining universal access in the treatment of minors living with the killer virus. The ...

  • Zimbabwe Launches Human Resource Website To Target Skilled Diaspora Community

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  • Zimbabwe Activists Urge Harare to Financially Support Human Rights Commission

    WASHINGTON -- Activists say it is a shame that institutions like the Human Rights Commission that were created to ensure rights abuses become are abolished in Zimbabwe, are not receiving budgetary allocations from the government to support their work. Last week commission chair, Jacob Mudenda, told a parliamentary committee their work was being compromised by lack of funds. Mudenda said ...

  • Zimbabwe mining chamber criticizes minerals proposals

    A conveyor belt carries ore extracted at Mimosa Platinum mine about 400km south of Harare, Feb. 16, 2012. Zimbabwe's mining chamber said tighter proposed state control over the sale of minerals would hit Anglo American Platinum and Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd., slow down foreign investment and stunt growth in the industry. (PHILIMON ...

  • Electoral Body and Zimbabwe Gov’t Owe State Vehicle Firm Millions of Dollars

    WASHINGTON -- The government and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission owe the Central Mechanical and Engineering Department (CMED) more than $13 million, a situation the state-owned company said is untenable, especially as the country heads for national elections. Managing director Davision Mhaka says the government and ZEC should pay up if the CMED is to effectively participate in the ...


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Speed 2: Cruise Control

Don't let the movie poster fool you. Even though Sandra Bullock takes top billing and her face is most prominently displayed on the advertisements for "Speed 2: Cruise Control," she spends most of the movie taking a back seat to Jason Patric's action hero, Willem Dafoe's mugging villain, and director Jan De Bont's confusing action and bigger-than-life special effects. Bullock, who has a sly and wo ... ...

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  • Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Biti says Party Will Push for Debt Cancellation

    WASHINGTON -- Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Tendai Biti says a government led by his MDC party will push for the cancellation of the country’s foreign debt, allowing it to launch a massive economic transformation program in what he called, the post-Mugabe era, creating jobs and lifting the country out of poverty. The MDC-T secretary general says the country’s foreign debt has ...

  • Horse-Riding At Mukuvisi Woodlands

    While my brother and friends were visiting recently from overseas - Peter, born here, has lived in the UK for decades, Neri is from Israel and Jorge, from Madeira - we took them to Mukuvisi Woodlands for lunch at the coffee shop and some time at the game viewing platform. We had a particularly good time watching the game from there, and Peter and Neri on our recommendation resolved to squeeze ...

  • DT Africa Finally Clear Bulaji to Join Premiership Side Caps

    DT AFRICA United have finally cleared versatile player Kenneth Kevin Bulaji to play for CAPS United. The player could feature in today's Harare derby against Dynamos. Bulaji, who can play in any position upfront, has been at the centre of a contract wrangle between DT Africa United and CAPS United. The Players Status committee ruled in favour of DT Africa United and the club has agreed ...

  • Friendly Football Academy Is Born in Harare

    WHAT started as a pastime social league football club in the high density suburb of Kuwadzana a year ago, has within a short period of time blossomed to match some of the biggest football academies in the country. September 13 2012 saw the birth of a new football academy, Friendly Football Academy. The brains behind this noble project is Richard Solobala, a talented player during his days who ...

  • Mujuru Working to Win Over Church Leadership to Zanu-PF

    Gweru - Vice-President Joice Mujuru has urged church leaders to participate in Zanu PF programmes in order to become economically empowered. Speaking at a Gweru ministers fraternal church service in the city yesterday, Mujuru said it was disheartening that upon retirement many church leaders ended up destitute because they would have failed to take part in programmes like the land reform and ...

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