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The MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai has laid out his vision for a new Zimbabwe under his rule, promising citizens justice, freedom and happiness. Launching the MDC's Agenda for Real Transformation at the party's policy conference in Harare yesterday, Tsvangirai, who is also Zimbabwe's Prime Minister, said his party would ensure that Zimbabweans enjoyed their country. "We definitely have to ensure
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Harare - A lecturer at a government university in Zimbabwe has been jailed for three months for labelling veteran President Robert Mugabe "a rotten old donkey," in the latest such case, lawyers said on Saturday. Chenjerai Pamhiri, 38, a lecturer at Great Zimbabwe State University in Masvingo city, was convicted and jailed on Friday by a magistrate on Friday, Zimbabwe
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Harare - Zimbabwe's prime minister says he is poised to win the presidency in upcoming elections and return the nation to the world community after years of isolation. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Friday his party championed a new constitution accepted in a March referendum. "We have a new constitution, we must definitely have a new government" to open
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Harare - Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party on Friday unveil plans to win back foreign investors and clip the security services' wings if it wins upcoming elections, party officials said. The proposed government platform aims to remake the economy and trim the size of the security forces, while introducing new standards of professionalism. "We are in the last mile
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Harare - Zimbabwe's upper house of parliament on Tuesday approved the country's new constitution, sending the document to President Robert Mugabe to sign into law. Seventy-five senators in the 94-seat senate approved the draft constitution in the capital Harare, a week after the house of assembly overwhelmingly approved it. The new basic law opens the path for fresh elections later
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Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has taken a swipe at security service chiefs, warning they should stop posing as a threat to the will of the people and respect the country’s constitutional process. Speaking on the sidelines of the just ended World Economic Forum in Cape Town, Tsvangirai told News24 that the behaviour of Zimbabwe’s security chiefs was disturbing in
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Harare - The editor and chief reporter of a leading weekly the Zimbabwe Independent have been detained by police after publishing a politically sensitive article, the paper's website said on Tuesday. Editor Dumisani Muleya and chief reporter c were said to have been arrested for publishing "falsehoods" in a story two weeks ago. The police were not immediately available for
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The mobile voter registration exercise entered its fourth day Thursday, with people in the rural areas expressing concern over the slow pace of the exercise. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) officially launched a nationwide voter registration campaign Monday, for elections due to be held this year. The campaign is supposed to cover national identity registration, voter registration and inspection of
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Harare - The Zimbabwe prime minister's party says state election officials are dramatically inflating the numbers of voters on lists months ahead of crucial polls. The party said on Tuesday the lists in some voting districts swelled by more than 10 000 names in a 48-hour period, or the addition of about 150 voters a second. "This is just impossible,"
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Zimbabwe looks set to retain its third place position on the list of the world's poorest countries, amid a foreign investment 'free fall'. This free fall has been indicated by figures supplied by the Zimbabwe Investment Authority, which show a 76% drop in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) this year as compared to the same period in 2012. The figures show
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Harare — For the last 13 years, Trynos Mbweku, the headman of Mwenezi district in southeastern Zimbabwe, has had to use a cart to fetch water from the only remaining borehole in his area, which lies some 10 kilometres from his home. For villagers in this district, which is about 160 km southwest of Masvingo, the capital of Masvingo Province,
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Zimbabwe could introduce new taxes on its mining sector to help fund July elections instead of borrowing on the debt markets, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said on Wednesday. Zimbabwe, which is on the verge of bankruptcy, withdrew a request for the UN election funding last week, saying the United Nations had tried to "interfere" in security matters and the media.
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The government is said to be 'happy' with a Diaspora that continues remitting millions to Zimbabwe, because of the ongoing weak state of the national economy. Recent figures from South Africa have suggested that roughly $600 million is being remitted to Zimbabwe annually from the Diaspora. These figures are according to South Africa's First National Bank, which recently launched a
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Harare - President Robert Mugabe marked Zimbabwe's 33 years of independence with a renewed call to shun violence ahead of elections later this year to choose a successor to the country's shaky power-sharing government. "The country is now due to hold harmonised elections, and I wish to urge the nation to uphold and promote peace," Mugabe told a rally in
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Harare – At least 100 Mozambican troops have graduated after completing intensive training in Zimbabwe, amid reports that Mozambique is facing a threat from former rebels, Renamo. The Mozambican military troops graduated on Friday at the Zimbabwe Military Academy in Gweru after receiving training at several military bases dotted across the country. The training course content included foot and arms
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Jabulani Sibanda, the leader of the War Veterans' Association, reportedly said he "hates whites", described Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai as an "agent of the devil" and warned there will be violence in Zimbabwe if ZANU PF loses in forthcoming elections. The NewsDay newspaper said the war vet leader made the comments during a three hour public lecture he addressed at
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Harare - The fate of a Zimbabwean high court judge who angered authorities by ordering the release of a prominent rights lawyer will now be decided by President Robert Mugabe, state media said on Wednesday. Citing unnamed sources, the government controlled Herald newspaper said the case of Justice Charles Hungwe will be referred to the president by the head of
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Zimbabwean Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai has opposed President Mugabe's June 29 poll date. This was documented in an opposing affidavit filed by his proxy minister, Jameson Timba ahead of the High Court hearing that the PM suggested a September 16 poll date. The PM predicts that the harmonised elections will be proclaimed on July 19, and then the Nomination Court
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It's that time of the year again and it's only a few weeks left before the Harare International Festival of the Arts roars into life. As is the norm, Cool Lifestyle will update you on the highlights especially on the teen-ville. This year it's bigger and better as the Simba Youthzone hosts a variety of teen shows, giving children and
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Harare - Elections in Zimbabwe are still months away, but already President Robert Mugabe's party is intimidating its opponents and threatening violence, human rights and pro-democracy groups say. Witnesses say Mugabe's Zanu-PF party has begun deploying youth militia groups in some of its strongholds. A young mother in the Harare township of Mbare said militants of a pro-Mugabe youth group
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Zimbabwe's High Court on Monday released prominent human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa on $500 bail, after more than a week in prison in a case that has renewed criticism of President Robert Mugabe's security forces. High Court Judge Joseph Musakwa set aside an earlier decision by a magistrate to deny Mtetwa bail. "I am satisfied with the application by the
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The new constitution that was voted for overwhelmingly in a referendum on Saturday will only come into force on its promulgation by President Robert Mugabe, a top MDC-T official said on Wednesday. Douglas Mwonzora, who as COPAC co-chairman was part of a committee that oversaw the drafting of the new charter, said it will come into effect when all the
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Zimbabwe prime minister's party says police have arrested two more members of his staff, bringing to six the number detained since Sunday. Tsvangirai’s spokesperson, Luke Tamborinyoka said in a statement that the prime minister was taking attacks on his office as an "affront to democracy and to the rule of law". "It is an attack not only on the members
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AS the country awaits the announcement of official referendum results by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, information filtering through from our news crews, bureaux and correspondents deployed at various stations countrywide indicates overwhelming endorsement of the draft constitution. Contrary to claims of wide-spread voter apathy from civil society organisations and some sections of the media, information reaching us shows that over
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Harare - Seven members of Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party were assaulted Friday while campaigning on the eve of a key constitutional referendum. Sten Zvorwadza, a candidate MP for Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), said the group was canvassing in a Harare township when they were attacked by supporters of President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party. "We went down
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