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Friday, 11 January 2013 12:11
HARARE - Four officials in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC who allegedly called President Robert Mugabe “a thief” have been summoned to the Chinhoyi Magistrates’ Court. The four, MDC Mashonaland West deputy chairperson Eddy Ndirayire, Hurungwe North district youth organising secretary...Read More
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Friday, 11 January 2013 12:11
HARARE - Zimbabwe’s electoral body has defended its contact with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai saying allegations that he is meddling with the electoral process are dishonest. Joyce Kazembe, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) deputy commission chairperson, said this after meeting Tsvangirai...Read More
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Thursday, 10 January 2013 11:05
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe is rushing back to Harare today in a last-ditch effort to clear the last hurdles in the constitution-making process. Cutting short his annual vacation in the Far East, Mugabe is expected to arrive in Zimbabwe today...Read More
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Wednesday, 09 January 2013 12:19
HARARE - “Cost of living is so high, rich and poor they start to cry, now the weak must get strong, they say, ‘Oh ,what a tribulation!’ Them belly full, but we hungry; a hungry mob is an angry mob.” I...Read More
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Wednesday, 09 January 2013 12:14
HARARE - Global resources group Rio Tinto says it expects to unveil its Murowa Diamonds indigenisation compliance plan when President Robert Mugabe resumes official duty next month. Mugabe — who is the key driver of the empowerment programme through his Indigenisation...Read More
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Tuesday, 08 January 2013 11:11
HARARE - Since 2009, Zimbabwe has been making half-hearted attempts at democratisation following a disputed election the previous year. The piecemeal reforms so far are attributable primarily to the dearth of political will and lack of financial resources. Of the political...Read More
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Tuesday, 08 January 2013 10:46
HARARE - Zanu PF says it cannot share goodies dished by President Robert Mugabe with non-party members, even those it wants to lure ahead of this year’s crunch general election. The $20 million presidential farming input scheme launched recently in all...Read More
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Sunday, 06 January 2013 13:11
HARARE - The subsistence of political transitions are marked by political infighting, partisan positions and attempts to revert back to the old authoritarian rule especially if the undemocratic elements within the elite power arrangements read that a full scale democratic norm...Read More
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Friday, 04 January 2013 10:41
HARARE - Nothing lasts forever. The young eventually become the old and they subsequently perish. Such is the law of nature. 1980 is pretty different from 2013. Dialectical materialism dictates that life is in constant motion and more particularly, that...Read More
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Thursday, 03 January 2013 11:34
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe's closest officials trooped to Nigerian “prophet” TB Joshua seeking salvation last week. Two of Mugabe’s top men, Home Affairs co-minister Kembo Mohadi and Manicaland governor and resident minister Christopher Mushowe forked out thousands of dollars to...Read More
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Thursday, 03 January 2013 11:34
HARARE - What is better to have loads of money which cannot buy anything or have goods in shops which no money can buy? This question often arose during the hyperinflationary environment whenever friends exchanged banter each time they changed foreign...Read More
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Wednesday, 02 January 2013 11:26
HARARE - “There's no doubt that this has been a particularly difficult year, and I am relieved that this annus horribilis (year of horrors) is coming to an end.” This was Kofi Annan in 2004, then a UN secretary-general describing what...Read More
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News » Richard Chidza, Staff Writer
Sunday, 30 December 2012 15:42
HARARE - As Zimbabwe's shaky government continues to scavenge for funds to run next year’s referendum and elections, the Daily News on Sunday can reveal that the country’s electoral commission is saddled with a near million-dollar debt. In representations made to...Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Sunday, 30 December 2012 15:42
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe has ended 2012 by virtually confirming that his call for an early election was a farce all along. Political rivals and analysts say a month-long annual leave he has taken at a time when his struggling...Read More
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News » Richard Chidza, Staff Writer
Sunday, 30 December 2012 14:01
HARARE - Three decades of repression and poverty have left Zimbabweans in a state of fear and the situation is unlikely to change in the near future, opposition politician Simba Makoni has said. In a New Year message released yesterday,...Read More
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