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Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:15
HARARE - Sanctions, as penalties aimed at a State, entity or individuals to change their behaviour, have been central to Zanu PF’s political campaign for a long time. Yet the party’s claims on effects of sanctions have barely been cogently challenged....Read More
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Tuesday, 14 May 2013 11:05
HARARE - A High Court judge has granted bail to 19 MDC activists arrested for allegedly impersonating government officials after they moved door to door in Harare in a voter registration campaign. Judge Felistas Chatukuta yesterday ordered each of the 19...Read More
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Monday, 13 May 2013 11:16
HARARE - Fireworks are expected at tomorrow’s Cabinet meeting as the Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC takes the electoral war to President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF over a voter registration programme mired in controversy and renewed crackdown on pro-democracy groups. Matters...Read More
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Monday, 13 May 2013 10:55
BULAWAYO - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s says delays in conducting primary elections are due to infiltration by President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF. A senior MDC official claimed Zanu PF had infiltrated the party and was causing confusion. Speaking at a Bulawayo...Read More
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Monday, 13 May 2013 10:49
HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC is considering clearing an expelled Chitungwiza councillor to contest in primary elections as reward for blowing the whistle on corruption in the municipality. MDC sacked all the councillors it had in the dormitory town...Read More
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Features » Richard Chidza, Staff Writer
Sunday, 12 May 2013 12:07
HARARE - Zimbabweans will soon troop to the polls for the umpteenth time in less than a decade-and-a-half to “choose” a new government. The new vote comes in the wake in which Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his band of democrats...Read More
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Thursday, 09 May 2013 11:25
HARARE - Charity, the wife of incarcerated MDC Youth Assembly president Solomon Madzore, has claimed prison authorities on Tuesday barred her from seeing her husband. Madzore is in jail charged with undermining President Robert Mugabe’s authority after allegedly calling him a...Read More
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Thursday, 09 May 2013 11:14
HARARE - A Harare magistrate has ruled that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s aide has a case to answer on charges of illegally possessing a firearm. The application for discharge at the close of the State’s case against PM’s aide Thabani Mpofu...Read More
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Opinion & Analysis »
Wednesday, 08 May 2013 12:38
HARARE - The future has arrived. Tomorrow is now here. This is a call for action. The time for hate-mongering and mud-slinging is over. A New Zimbabwe is beckoning and this is our generational challenge to rise and shine. The politics...Read More
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Wednesday, 08 May 2013 12:36
HARARE - Finance minister Tendai Biti has threatened to undo empowerment deals signed by Indigenisation minister Savior Kasukuwere, if his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party wins the forthcoming elections. Biti, also MDC’s secretary general, said Kasukuwere’s controversial policy would be...Read More
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Tuesday, 07 May 2013 14:15
HARARE - MDC youth leader Solomon Madzore, accused of calling President Robert Mugabe a “limping donkey” is being transferred from police custody to remand prison despite a Bindura magistrate granting him bail. Due to a law which allows prosecutors to veto...Read More
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Tuesday, 07 May 2013 13:59
HARARE - There is unease in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC on whether to allow sitting councillors fingered in graft to run on the party’s ticket in the next election. While reports indicate the party is cracking over sitting MPs who...Read More
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Monday, 06 May 2013 13:40
BULAWAYO The internal struggle and political conflict in Zimbabwe since 1995 has been to increase democratic election space and banish forever the one-party state syndrome and state security defector-rule from our beloved country. The one-party state and die-in-office syndrome was...Read More
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Sunday, 05 May 2013 14:03
HARARE - A youth leader in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC will appear in court tomorrow charged with telling a rally that President Robert Mugabe was a "limping donkey." MDC Youth Assembly chairman Solomon Madzore has been held at Bindura Police...Read More
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Sunday, 05 May 2013 14:03
HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party has denied that its popularity ratings have plunged, disputing an opinion poll which revealed that it suffered a slide. The MDC is facing a rough ride in the GNU, and its leader Tsvangirai...Read More
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