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  • Zimbabwe’s Ruling Party Militias Spread Fear of Voting

    - For the last month Gibson Severe and his wife, Merjury Severe, known opposition supporters from Hurungwe district in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland West Province, have been hiding out in the country's capital ...

  • Few Winter Wheat Farmers Meet Planting Deadline

    Agriculture experts predict a very low wheat harvest this year due to the decline in winter wheat production as most farmers failed to meet this year’s planting deadline of May 15. The farmers could not buy inputs on time as they failed to access funds from banks and the government. Last week, the Bankers Association of Zimbabwe said banks were failing to lend the agricultural sector ...

  • Zanu-PF MDC Gear For Primary Elections

    WASHINGTON -- The Zanu-PF Politiburo is meeting at the party’s headquarters in Harare on Wednesday to try and finalize its long-awaited rules and regulations that govern the conduct of primary elections ahead of this year’s crucial polls. The delay in issuing the regulations, insiders say, is now causing serious friction within the party as aspiring candidates are said to be ...

  • Zambian Minister Urges Zimbabwe to Hold Peaceful Election

    WASHINGTON DC -- Zambian Tourism Minister Sylvia Masebo has called on Zimbabwe to avoid a violent election for the sake of the upcoming United Nations World Tourism Organization General Assembly to be co-hosted by the two neighbors in August. Addressing a news conference in Livingstone on Tuesday after a first leg cross-border cycling tour with U.S. Ambassadors to Harare and Lusaka, Bruce ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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