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Zimbabweans better placed to solve own problems: Dlamini-Zuma
By Our reporter at June 18, 2013 | 1:04 AM | 0 Comment
ZIMBABWEANS are better placed to resolve their own problems regarding the holding of presidential and parliamentary elections and regarding President Robert Mugabe's decision to call an election on July 31, the head of the African Union commission said on Monday. Zimbabwe's Supreme Court, sitting as a Constitutional Court ordered President Mugabe two weeks ago to set more...
Biti poisoning public discourse on Zimbabwe
By Editorial at June 17, 2013 | 8:26 AM | 0 Comment
Now that the official Southern African Development Community (Sadc) 'communiqué is in the public domain, we know that the one issued by the MDC-T Secretary General, Tendai Biti on his Facebook page was just a wishlist. It was not a white lie, but Biti turned reality completely on its head, and it undermines public faith in politics. What Biti, or any leader or more...
Elections 31 July 2013, Mugabe announces
By Our reporter at June 13, 2013 | 12:41 PM | 4 Comments
President Robert Mugabe has set July 31 as the date for harmonised elections. The announcement was made in a June 12, Extraordinary Government Gazette under Statutory Instrument 85 of 2013. The elections will bring to an end the coalition government which was formed in June 2008 between Zanu-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change party. Prime Minister Morgan more...
Go wild with Wez (Kariba) at Pagoma Grill
By Donette Read Kruger at May 15, 2012 | 2:27 AM | 0 Comment
Winning the Oscar 2002 for the best environmental documentary, “Winged Migration” is still the most extraordinary template on birding migration to date - a subject seemingly taking the world by storm – and, to the delight of WEZ members, this amazing DVD has finally arrived in Zimbabwe! Directed by Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud, this classic documentary film more...
PM Tsvangirai officially opens Book Café
By Our reporter at March 13, 2012 | 8:58 AM | 0 Comment
Founder of the Book Café, Paul Brickhill (second from right) poses with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Ambassador of the Netherlands H.E. Barabara Joziasse (left) and Prince Claus Fund Director Christa Meindersma after receiving the Prince Claus Award. PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai officially opened the newly refurbished Book Café in Harare on more...
Zimbabwe mining fees up by 5,000 p.c.
By Our reporter at February 5, 2012 | 2:04 PM | 0 Comment
Zimbabwe mines minister Obert Mpofu Zimbabwe mining fees have been raised by up to 5,000 percent, a report in The Sunday Mail said. According to Statutory Instrument 11 of 2012, published on 27 January 2012, registration of diamond claims has increased from US$1 million to US$5 million with a new ground rental fee of US$3,000 per hectare per year. Application more...
Zimbabwe treats more than 1,500 typhoid cases
By Our reporter at February 5, 2012 | 5:02 AM | 0 Comment
Zimbabwe is reporting up to 50 cases of typhoid per day and has treated more than 1,500 people in an outbreak blamed on poor water and sanitation facilities, the health minister said more...
World Bank backs Zim privatization move
By Professor Tshuma at November 3, 2011 | 3:26 AM | 1 Comments
THE World Bank (WB) has backed Government’s move to privatise its Parastatals and Enterprises saying the two no longer give feasible receipts to the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Presenting a paper at the Conference on Restructuring of State Enterprises and Parastatals in the capital recently, WB country manager Mr. Nginya Mungai Lenneiye said the more...
US-based Zim charged with first-degree murder
By Our reporter at October 17, 2011 | 12:21 PM | 0 Comment
UNITED STATES' Pierce County prosecutors on Tuesday charged a Zimbabwean with first-degree murder. They allege Mthulisi B. Ndlovu, 38, beat his girlfriend Mary Mushapaidzi to death with one half of a pair of long-handled pruning shears and then burned her body in a barrel. An 8-year-old boy awoke late Saturday or early Sunday to what he thought were his mother’s more...
Zim-Brazil relations vital for economic development
By Garikai Chengu at July 31, 2011 | 1:35 AM | 2 Comments
AS the global economic, financial and political balance of power shifts from the West to the East, it is becoming increasingly evident that we are living through the tail end of half a millennium of Western supremacy. Consequently, Zimbabwe must be commended for presciently adopting a 'Look East Policy' over a decade ago. However, the nation must now also look to more...
