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Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's party on Friday said the partial lifting of sanctions on members of the veteran ruler's inner circle was "a non-event". "Our position is very clear. We want the unconditional lifting of all sanctions," said Rugare Gumbo, spokesperson for the Zanu-PF party. "This idea of lifting the sanctions piecemeal is all nonsensical. It's a non-event.
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A TOTAL of 173 505kg of flue-cured tobacco worth US$618,350 were sold on the first day of the 2012 tobacco selling season that started on Wednesday. The average price was US$3,56. Last season a total of 84 542kg valued at US$216, 666 were sold on the first day at an average price of US$2,56. Boka Tobacco Sales Floor had the
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Harare - When Zimbabwe's unity government was formed three years ago, the unlikely coupling of long-ruling Robert Mugabe and his rival Morgan Tsvangirai was seen as a stepping stone to new elections. Now the electoral preparations are two years behind schedule, and analysts say the rocky coalition could hobble along for yet another year. "We will have to continue with
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Two dispossessed farmers in Zimbabwe are set to take their case against the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to Africa's top human rights body, after the suspension of the regional rights court last year. All 15 SADC leaders have been cited as respondents in the landmark legal case, launched by farmers Luke Tembani and Ben Freeth, in place of his
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Harare - An animal protection group says four Chinese nationals have been arrested on cruelty charges after they cut up and ate rare tortoises. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said the men admitted killing 40 of the Bell's hinged species, which are listed as endangered. Another 13 live tortoises and tortoise meat were found in
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has summoned his party's co-chairperson to the country’s Constitutional Select Committee (Copac) reportedly to explain how a controversial clause that could bar him from contesting the next election passed through a first draft that has just been made public, Daily News reported on Wednesday. Section 6.4.2 of the draft disqualifies from standing in presidential elections, any
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Harare - Zimbabwe has suspended 29 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in one of its provinces including Care International, state media reported on Wednesday, raising worries of a crackdown similar to one that preceded elections in 2008. President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party kicked out foreign NGO ahead of the poll four years ago, making it difficult for the outside world to provide
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The European Union is expected to keep up sanctions on Zimbabwe but remove a third of the people from its list of those affected by asset freezes and visa bans, EU diplomats said on Tuesday. The arms embargo will remain in place and a freeze in development aid will be extended for another six months, the diplomats said. The decision,
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Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has been criticised after telling a religious audience that he and President Robert Mugabe were chosen by God to lead the nation and that people should pray for them, The Zimbabwe Mail reported on Tuesday. According to the report, Tsvangirai told a prayer meeting on Saturday in Chitungwiza, a Harare satellite town, that Zimbabweans should
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The controversial re-appointment of Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri for another term of office is set to take centre stage at the principals' meeting tomorrow as Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai insists President Robert Mugabe cannot act unilaterally. Tsvangirai's spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka yesterday said the principals are meeting tomorrow to clear the confusion surrounding Chihuri's term of office. "The position regarding
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Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe will not sign the draft constitution into the new supreme law of the country as long as it disqualifies him from contesting the next elections, The Zimbabwe Mail reported on Monday, quoting a senior Zanu-PF official. The Constitution Select Committee (Copac) co-chairperson Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana said there was no way Mugabe would sign into law a
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Harare - Zimbabwe has shut down the capital's main courthouse after a suspected outbreak of typhoid affected magistrates and court officials, state media reported on Saturday. The complex in Harare has had no water for more than two weeks due to a fault in the system that wasn't properly fixed. Court officials turned away witnesses and suspects and shut down
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Health and Child Welfare Minister Dr Henry Madzorera has said that the typhoid outbreak is due to people eating human waste. "The mode of transmission for typhoid is the faecal-oral route, that is, through ingestion of bacteria in food or water contaminated with faeces of infected persons. "In simple terms, it simply means people are eating their own faeces." Addressing
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Harare - An inquest to clear up the cause of a fire that killed an influential former general in Zimbabwe's army has left many questions unanswered, amid suspicion he was assassinated. The last testimony to a commission of inquest on the death of Solomon Mujuru, aged 66, was given on Monday. The magistrate heading up the investigation would not say
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Chinhoyi — GOVERNMENT says the typhoid outbreak is under control, but is worried that some of the cases could have evolved to carrier state, making prospects of further outbreaks imminent. More than 1 000 cases have been recorded in Harare. Speaking at the Chinhoyi Press Club last Friday, Health and Child Welfare Deputy Minister Dr Douglas Mombeshora said at its
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Jamaican musicians' great trek to Zimbabwe continues following an announcement Jah Mason is heading for Harare over the Easter holiday. Eddie Gwenzi of Biggman Entertainment, who is hosting the show, confirmed the tour and said preparations were already underway. "We are doing our best to avoid previous situations when fans were left disappointed, so we are doing everything to make
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai are expected to hold an explosive meeting amid reports the premier is seething with anger over leakages of confidential communication between them, News Day reported on Monday. This, according to the report, follows the leakage and subsequent publication of a confidential letter by Tsvangirai to President Mugabe and Deputy Prime Minister
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Harare — With global funding for on the decline, Zimbabwe's innovative AIDS levy - a 3 percent tax on income - has become a promising source of funding for the country, with a dramatic increase in revenue collected in the past two years. The levy was introduced in 1999 to compensate for declining donor support, but low salaries and the
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The new chief of the UN-sponsored Kimberley Process that aims to stop "blood diamonds" reaching market said she was in talks to regain support of a campaign group that recently quit the scheme. Kimberley Process chairwoman Gillian Milovanovic on Friday said she was "continuing discussions" with London-based Global Witness, which helped set up the voluntary certification scheme in 2003, about
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Harare — PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have stalled the crafting of a referendum law due to haggling on whether or not the diaspora vote should be included in the constitutional plebiscite. The Constitutional Parliamentary Select Committee (COPAC) is currently engrossed in the crafting of a new supreme law, with frequent misunderstandings delaying progress. But now, time
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COUNCIL has failed to address the social determinants leading to diarrheal diseases, typhoid included, and is appealing for Government's intervention to holistically arrest the crisis, a senior official admitted yesterday. Briefing Kuwadzana East legislator Mr Nelson Chamisa during a visit to the Kuwadzana Polyclinic yesterday, council's health services director Dr Prosper Chonzi said current interventions are reactive rather than proactive.
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Harare - Zimbabwe's media commission on Thursday said it will ask authorities to ban foreign newspapers that are not registered to operate in the country. "The Zimbabwe media commission has resolved to bar affected papers from entrance into and circulation within Zimbabwe until they comply with Zimbabwe's laws," commission chair Godfrey Majonga said in a statement. Majonga singled out South
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Robert Mugabe's reported rant against the African Union (AU) and its handling of the crisis in Libya last year, is a sign that the ageing leader is 'panicked'. This is according to a leading political analyst who told SW Radio Africa on Wednesday that Mugabe is showing his true colours by criticising the AU in this instance. Mugabe reportedly lambasted
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Harare - Zimbabwe's central bank said on Wednesday it has given five under capitalised banks two weeks to raise cash or face closure, after several banks were forced to shut because of the economic crisis. At the end of last year five of the country's 25 banks did not have the minimum capital required by law, central bank governor Gideon
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Harare - Zimbabwean authorities say they are making sure poor townships get uninterrupted water supplies after a typhoid outbreak, leaving wealthy areas with reduced supplies. Harare official Tendai Mahachi told reporters on Tuesday well-to-do suburbs will get water about twice weekly. He said "the wealthy can afford to buy water" and cope with outages. At least 900 cases of the
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