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  • Politburo Supports Mujuru to Succeed Mugabe

    VICE-PRESIDENT Joice Mujuru has virtually secured a copper-bottomed guarantee to take over as the next president of Zimbabwe in the event that President Robert Mugabe resigns, is incapacitated or dies in office, provided he wins the next elections, it has emerged. Senior Zanu PF politburo members said this week, barring unforeseen events and circumstances, Mujuru was almost assured of taking ...

  • Zim Struggles to Turn Human Rights Corner

    WHENEVER its democratic and human rights record has been criticised, President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF often retorts; it cannot be condemned for its abuses because it actually brought respect of human rights and democracy in the first place at Independence in 1980. Zanu PF officials say Mugabe's regime has done well in other areas, including education, health and land redistribution, ...

  • Chiweshe Guvava Join Constitutional Court

    JUDGE President George Chiweshe and Justice Antoinette Guvava are now acting judges of the newly established nine-member Constitutional Court that started work yesterday when it heard a Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) application challenging the ill-treatment of people living with HIV in detention by police and prison officers. Chiweshe and Guvava joined Chief Justice Godfrey ...

  • Zimbabwe Zim Faces Food Crisis

    THIRTEEN years after its fast track land reform programme, Zimbabwe is still importing most of its food and is far from regaining its breadbasket status. Analysts have said the discordant land tenure system ushered in after the reforms remains an albatross around the economy's neck. However, President Robert Mugabe appears to ignore that the country needs a deep relook at land ...

  • Zimbabwe Still Rolling Out the Barrel

    Delta Corporation Limited, the biggest counter on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) by capitalisation, recently published results for the 12 months ended March 31 2013. Results from the brewer are always much anticipated by the investment community and as such the results presentation is always well-attended. This is because Delta accounts for 30% of the total market capitalisation on the ZSE ...


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The Red Shoes [DVD]

The Red Shoes [DVD]

When The Red Shoes, the seventh collaboration by the filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in as many years, was released in 1948, it was quite unlike anything audiences had seen before, even though it was constructed of parts that were quite familiar. There had ... ...

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  • MDC-Ts Shift From Slogans to Ideas

    One of the most important characteristics of any group that is developing towards dominance is its struggle to assimilate and conquer ideologically the traditional intellectuals, but as this assimilation and conquest is made quicker and effectively, the more the group succeeds in simultaneously elaborating its own organic intellectuals and solid policy position. In The Ruling Class and the ...

  • Mugabes Bid to Airbrush Dark Legacy

    WHENEVER President Robert Mugabe speaks in public these days, if he is not involved in political polemics and campaigning, there is always a hint of atonement -- clues that he wants to make amends for his mistakes on the cusp of the sunset of his controversial political career. On Wednesday, in an off-the-cuff speech at the signing ceremony of the new constitution at State House in Harare, he ...

  • May 25 Charity Begins At Home

    AS the mother continent marks the golden anniversary of Africa Day tomorrow, it would be amiss not to delve into the significance of the founding of the African Union (AU), formerly the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which in essence is the cause for reflection on May 25. Like any human being at the age of 50, independent Africa has surely come of age. Whether the coming of age coincides ...

  • Poll Manifestos Parties Sharpen Ideas for Battle

    WITH the clock fast-ticking towards make-or-break elections expected later this year, the main political parties in Zimbabwe are now finalising their manifestos set to be launched ahead of polls. In many Western countries like the United States and Britain, well-articulated economic, foreign and social policies often win elections, but in Zimbabwe, this does not appear to be the case. There is ...

  • Election Uncertainties Scare Away Investors

    The wrangling among Zimbabwe's diverse political parties, numerous political action groups, the president, prime minister and many others in the political hierarchy as well as the media as to when the presidential and parliamentary elections will be (or should be) held is having a grievously negative impact on the country's economy, severely worsening its already very fragile state. ...

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