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  • Zimbabwe Poll Date in Flux After Regional Body Calls for Delay

    JOHANNESBURG Regional leaders have requested that Zimbabwe's government delay upcoming elections to give the troubled nation time to make sure the vote is free and fair. President Robert Mugabe set elections for July 31, saying he was complying with a ruling of the Constitutional Court. The request from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) supports the argument of Prime ...

  • Harare Secures $144 Million to Tackle Water Woes

    HARARE -- Water woes in Harare may soon be a thing of the past as the former sunshine city expects to receive within the next two weeks a $144 million loan from China to rehabilitate its ageing water treatment and distribution network. Town Clerk Tendai Mahachi told parliament’s Local Government Committee Tuesday that the city secured the funds from Chinese Export and Import Bank. ...

  • Courage of Zimbabwe human rights lawyer captured in film | Rebecca Lowe

    Zimbabwe human rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, as a young girl with her brother in Swaziland where she was born and raised Photograph: ...

  • Zimbabwe election date tussle gets serious

    Opposition politicians say President Robert Mugabe is using a constitutional court's call for an early date to achieve an unconstitutional ...

  • Water Crisis Hits Gweru as Gwenoro Dam Runs Dry

    GWERU -- The City of Gweru in Zimbabwe's Midlands province faces a critical water shortage as the city’s main water source, Gwenoro Dam, is running dry. Gweru’s Deputy Mayor Taurai Demo told Studio 7 the city’s main supply of raw water, is now just seven per cent full. Mr. Demo said as a result of the critically low water levels, council will have to decommission the ...


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  • A closer look at how Zimbabwes cattle bank works

    MARONDERA, Zimbabwe -- HOW A CATTLE BANK WORKS:- The bank sends a veterinary official to inspect a farmer's cattle and assesses their monetary worth.- Based on that, owners can get loans up to the value of the cattle they are banking as collateral. -The bank pays 10 percent interest a year on the value of the cattle deposited, which can be paid out in cash or additional cows.- Owners ...

  • Parties Opposed to Zanu-PF Crafting Zimbabwe Grand Coalition

    WASHINGTON DC -- Five of President Robert Mugabe’s opponents are meeting in Harare today for the second time this month to try and form a grand coalition to challenge his 33-year stranglehold on ...

  • Govt Urged to Improve Trade Infrastructure Links With SA

    ZIMBABWE needs to further develop transport and trade infrastructure links with South Africa to maintain Africa's biggest economy as its single most important trading partner, research findings have shown. This came from preliminary findings of a research carried out by Dr Medicine Masiiwa who had been commissioned by Ministry of Regional Integration and International Cooperation to ...

  • Gvt Urged to Support Diamond Beneficiation

    A NUMBER of local diamond cutters and polishers have closed shop because they are not accessing the gems from miners, a latest report by a Portfolio Committee of Mines and Energy has said. In terms of the diamond policy adopted by the Government last year, a quota of locally produced diamonds should be made available for beneficiation by local cutters and polishers. The main objective of the ...

  • President Zuma Attends SADC Summit in Maputo

    President Jacob Zuma has today, 15 June 2013, arrived in Maputo in the Republic of Mozambique to attend a Southern African Development Community (SADC) Extra-Ordinary Summit. The African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government held their Summit in May 2013 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and considered progress in the implementation of decisions made during the Organ Troika Summit held in Cape Town ...

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