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Harare - Zimbabwe's justice minister said on Monday that reports of torture and violence against political activists were "lies", during a visit by UN rights chief Navi Pillay. "There is no state-sponsored violence, these are all lies. We told her that there are no torture chambers in Zimbabwe," Patrick Chinamasa said after an hour-long meeting with the UN's High Commissioner
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Bulawayo — President Robert Mugabe wants to retire but he fears that if he leaves now, Zanu-PF will disintegrate and the country degenerate into a possible civil war, former confidant and comrade-in-arms, Enos Nkala yesterday said. Nkala, a Zanu PF founding member and former Defence, Finance and Home Affairs minister, met Mugabe behind closed doors at Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Airport
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THE military and police chiefs have launched a spirited campaign on behalf of President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF ahead of the next do-or-die elections to regain ground lost to the MDC parties in the last polls. The security forces have begun their campaign -- which is clearly in violation of the constitution -- in Manicaland where it is believed
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A Zimbabwean human rights group has threatened South Africa's chief crime fighting unit with international legal action, over on ongoing probe into the illegal renditions of Zimbabwean citizens from South Africa. Several senior officials in the Hawks criminal unit and the South African police were last year accused of conducting the renditions, in partnership with Zimbabwean police. This has reportedly
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Johannesburg - South Africa and Zimbabwe signed a memorandum of understanding on Saturday, furthering tourism opportunities between the two countries, the department of tourism said. "Both countries acknowledge the contribution that tourism makes in growing their respective economies and creating employment opportunities," it said in a statement. The memorandum focuses on both countries sharing their best practices on integrating culture
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Yarmulkes bob as voices swell in a sacred song carried from ancient Judea to the scenic fields of a far-flung southern African village that is home to a "lost tribe" of Israel. "We have been singing this song for about 2,600 years. It's an old, old song," said Perez Hamandishe, wearing a white crocheted skullcup with a blue Star of
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This week we joined our colleagues worldwide in commemorating World Press Freedom Day. A day that was set aside by the United Nations General Assembly to celebrate the fundamental principles of Press freedom, evaluate Press freedom around the world, defend media freedom and pay tribute to media practitioners who face danger in the line of duty. World Press Freedom Day
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay will make her first visit to Zimbabwe from 20 t0 25 May, her office said on Friday, accepting an invitation from the Harare government. During her five-day day visit, Pillay will meet with President Robert Mugabe, the 88-year-old leader widely decried by activists as one of the worst perpetrators of human rights
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Harare - Zimbabwe's longtime president said splits and greed are threatening his party ahead of elections he is pushing for this year during a spirited speech at the funeral of a party stalwart on Friday. President Robert Mugabe told mourners at the state funeral that leaders have become "too materialistic" and are fighting each other for top party posts ahead
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Harare - Zimbabwe on Thursday threatened a crackdown on the media over what it called sensational and inaccurate reporting, following stories over the health of 88-year-old President Robert Mugabe. However critics said the warning from the country's information ministry, controlled by Mugabe's Zanu-PF party, could be an attempt to intimidate journalists ahead of elections expected next year. Senior Zanu-PF officials
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Harare - Zimbabwe's labour minister says the government is investigating persistent reports of rampant abuse of workers by Chinese employers. Labour minister Paurina Mupariwa told a Workers' Day celebration on Tuesday that a team of investigators has started visiting Chinese construction and mining companies to compile details of alleged abuses. Labour officials say workers have complained of physical abuse by
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Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Tuesday called for peace and demanded political reforms before any election to replace a coalition government with his long time rival President Robert Mugabe. "There must be a non-violent environment so that people vote in a free and fair vote," Tsvangirai said while addressing hundreds of workers marking Workers Day at Gwanzura stadium in
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Harare — PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe will only anoint a successor in his Zanu PF party after elections, which the 88-year-old leader wants held this year hoping to win against all odds. Mugabe insisted last week he would not quit power until after all foreign-owned businesses have ceded majority ownership to blacks. Sources in the party said Mugabe has instructed the
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Harare — SECUROCRATS are increasingly tightening their grip on Zanu PF amid further indications several members of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), police and retired army officers are battling to become candidates in the next general elections President Robert Mugabe wants this year. The securocrats are challenging Zanu PF heavyweights whom they accuse of destroying the party by imposing themselves
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Harare — PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has insisted that the country will hold national elections in March 2013, indicating that he favours seeing through the five-year term for incumbent lawmakers. The declaration by Tsvangirai, once viewed as a lame-duck Prime Minister but now slowly becoming assertive in the inclusive government in which ZANU-PF is a haughty partner, is certain to
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Zimbabwean police have arrested a journalist from New Zealand for reporting from the southern African country without accreditation, state media reported Friday. Hammond Robin Nicholas, 37, was arrested on Monday together with a Zimbabwean charity worker, Bertha Chiguvare, 31, in the border town of Beitbridge, 580 kilometres (360 miles) south of Harare. The two were allegedly working on a story
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Harare — Maria Saungweme, 42, an informal trader and single mother from the low-income suburb of Glen Norah in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, uses sewage-infested river water to irrigate her two-acre vegetable plot. "I am not proud to say this, but I consider the sewage that is offloaded into the river a blessing because it makes my vegetables grow well
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Harare - At least 21 people were killed on Monday when a speeding bus overturned in southern Zimbabwe, state radio reported. The bus had been travelling towards Beitbridge, a town on the border with South Africa, when the accident happened around 2:00 am. The radio quoted witnesses as saying that the driver, who died at the scene of the crash,
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ZIMBABWE'S proposed new constitution threatens to wreck President Robert Mugabe's faction-riddled ZANU PF, which has thrived on tribal and regional shenanigans to preserve the Unity Accord signed with the late vice-president Joshua Nkomo's PF ZAPU in 1987. While critics argue the Unity Accord, signed to end bloodletting in the Matabeleland and parts of the Midlands provinces, was a paper tiger,
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CABINET has resolved to declare five provinces hit by drought national disaster areas, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said yesterday. The PM made the remarks at Maglas Stadium during commemorations to mark World Health Day. The commemorations are running under the theme: "Ageing and Health. Good Health Adds Life to Years." Zimbabwe is facing a food deficit of almost one million
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Harare - Zimbabwe will suffer a one million ton maize deficit due to drought, after nearly half of the national crop now coming up for harvest has failed, state media said on Friday. "Forty five percent of maize that was planted this season is a write-off," Agriculture Minister Joseph Made said in The Herald newspaper. Made said the country has
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Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe returned home from Singapore on Thursday after a trip that fuelled rumours the 88-year-old was seriously ill, intensifying concerns about who would succeed him. Mugabe has made frequent visits to Singapore in recent years, amid reports that the veteran leader is suffering from prostate cancer that has already spread through his body. He appeared
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President Robert Mugabe arrived home from Asia on Thursday morning as his party denied reports he had suffered a health emergency. Mugabe, 88, was met at the main Harare airport by party leaders and military chiefs under normal protocol. He did not speak to waiting reporters. Mugabe's party dismissed reports that he had been gravely ill as "a lot of
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Harare - Zimbabwe on Tuesday dismissed reports that President Robert Mugabe was battling for life in a Singapore hospital as "a lot of hogwash", after his absence forced cabinet to postpone this week's meeting. "It's a lot of hogwash," Information Minister Webster Shamu told AFP. "This is not the first time we have heard these rumours. If anything like that
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is said to be 'fighting for his life' in a Singapore hospital, The Australian reports. This comes amid reports that he had agreed to hand over power to his defence minister, Emmerson Mnangagwa. Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, visited Singapore eight times last year. The New Zimbabwe, however, denied the
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