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  • Defence Security Meeting Ends

    The three-day meeting of the Sadc Inter-State Defence and Security Committee Human Resources Working Group ended in Harare yesterday with delegates resolving to strengthen the security of the region. Addressing delegates at the closing ceremony, Zimbabwe Defence Forces Chief of Staff Service Personnel and Logistics, Air Vice Marshal Titus Abu-Basutu, commended the ISDSC for calling for ...

  • Hospitals Face Blood Shortage

    Government hospitals are facing a serious shortage of blood following the National Blood Services Zimbabwe's decision to demand cash upfront for blood and its products from the hospitals, it has emerged. Most of the hospitals cannot afford to buy blood on a cash basis because of shortage of finances. Masvingo provincial medical director Dr Robert Mudyirandima said on a monthly basis, the ...

  • Zanu-PF Probe Team in Chinhoyi

    ZIMBABWEANS should vote resoundingly for Zanu-PF to defend the legacy of President Mugabe, the party and freedom fighters to avoid revolutionaries being yoked with reactionaries, a senior party official has said. Addressing Politburo, Central Committee and provincial executive members in Mashonaland West province national chairman Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo said the party faced a watershed ...

  • Supreme Court Complies With Constitution

    The Supreme Court started complying with the country's new Constitution yesterday when nine judges, instead of the previous six, sat on the bench to deal with a case brought by an HIV and Aids activist. The previous constitution provided for only six judges to sit on the bench when the Supreme Court is dealing with constitutional matters. In its first court session held in terms of the ...

  • U.S. $25 Million Needed for Voter Registration Exercise

    At least US$25 million is needed for the country to carry out a comprehensive mobile voter registration process, Co-Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi has said. Minister Mohadi said the normal voter registration process was going on well. "If we are to get more money we will have more teams on the ground for the mobile voter registration. "I cannot give you an exact budget but we ...


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I Am Curious—Blue (Jag ärr nyfiken—en film i blått) [DVD]

I Am Curious—Blue (Jag ärr nyfiken—en film i blått) [DVD]

I Am CuriousYellow would mostly likely be a forgotten movieleft somewhere in the multitudinous ranks of 1960s experimental avant-garde films that mix sex and politicsif the U.S. Customs Office hadnt seized the first copy being imported by its distributor, Grove Press, into the United States in 1968. In its misguided attempt to protect decent American citizens from Swedish obscenity, the gov ... ...

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  • Zimbabwe Churches March for Peace

    WORSHIPPERS from different churches yesterday held a peace awareness campaign in Mhondoro ahead of the country's watershed harmonised elections this year. The event, one of the biggest in a rural area, saw hundreds of worshippers marching from Watyoka Clinic to Muzavazi Primary School calling for a peaceful environment in their community. Methodist Development and Relief Agency(MeDRA) ...

  • Zimbabwe Key Allies Dump MDC-T

    KEY allies snubbed MDC-T's national policy conference last Friday, scuttling party leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai's bid to form an electoral pact with them ahead of a watershed election set for this year. The Herald is reliably informed that MDC-T sent written invitations to Professor Lovemore Madhuku's National Constitutional Assembly, Mr Munyaradzi Gwisai of the International ...

  • President Mugabe Makes Two Safe Appointments to the Supreme Court

    Two more judges have been appointed to the Supreme Court bench in line with the country's new constitution which was gazetted this week. Justices Ben Hlatshwayo and Bharat Patel were sworn in by President Robert Mugabe at State House on Wednesday, bringing the total on the bench to nine. The new judges were said to be elated at their promotion from the High Court to the superior court, ...

  • Zimbabwe June Election Unlawful in Terms of New Constitution

    The new Constitution that was formally gazetted by Robert Mugabe on Wednesday makes his desired June election date technically unlawful, with months worth of preparations constitutionally required. Mugabe and his ZANU PF party have been pushing for elections to be held as soon as the current Parliamentary term comes to an end on June 29th. This is the official date that marks the end of the ...

  • Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission Pleads for Funding

    The dysfunctional Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has approached parliament in a bid to get funding for its operations, a few months before the end of its tenure. The commission was set up in 2009 under the current inclusive government, to investigate human rights abuses following the bloody 2008 elections. But four years later and a few months from the expiry of its life on June 29th, ...

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