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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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Wednesday, 08 May 2013 12:06
HARARE - Police yesterday pounced on the editor of the Zimbabwe Independent Dumisani Muleya and reporter Owen Gagare for allegedly publishing “falsehoods”. They were charged and released after signing a warned and cautioned statement. Muleya and Gagare were charged under...Read More
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Wednesday, 08 May 2013 12:03
HARARE - Old Mutual Investment Group’s Property Investments has been hauled to court by one of its tenants that claims it lost $800 000 worth of drugs after the asset firm disconnected electricity from the business premises. The tenant was operating...Read More
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Thursday, 02 May 2013 10:28
HARARE - Police yesterday disrupted Workers’ Day celebrations organised by the Concerned Affiliates of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions at Raylton Sports Club in Harare. They rounded up leaders including Raymond Majongwe arguing that the police did not authorise the...Read More
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Wednesday, 01 May 2013 14:30
HARARE - It is lamentable that our politicians and other senior State bureaucrats have now resorted to blaming sanctions for almost anything that goes wrong without examining the real cause of societal challenges. That form of scurrilous pitch, while it sounds...Read More
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Tuesday, 30 April 2013 09:52
HARARE - Marital bliss is under threat in Harare, where domestic violence cases have spiked — and this has something to do with sanctions — at least according to the police. Fights breaking out in homes have become so frequent that...Read More
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Monday, 22 April 2013 10:57
HARARE - The murder trial of urban grooves artist Taurai Mandebvu opens in the High Court in June. Mandebvu, 27, his younger brother Sande Mandebvu, 21 and their father Golden Mandebvu, 60, have been indicted for trial on June 27. They...Read More
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Monday, 22 April 2013 10:54
HARARE - Two City of Harare employees have appeared in court on allegations of defrauding their employer of $325 114,63. Godfrey Hama, 35, a senior accountant and Dumisani Mgogoshi, 39, a clerical officer were not asked to plead when they appeared...Read More
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Sunday, 21 April 2013 15:23
HARARE - A capacity crowd thronged Harare’s City Sports Centre and thousands had to make-do with large TV screens in the overflow area for Christ Embassy’s reverend Tom Amenkhienan conference on Friday. An exuberant expression of joy met with the visiting...Read More
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Friday, 05 April 2013 11:09
HARARE - Former South African president Thabo Mbeki’s mediation prevented Zimbabwe from descending into civil war as the Unites States and United Kingdom pressed for tougher EU or UN sanctions against President Robert Mugabe’s regime, a book authored by a top...Read More
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Friday, 05 April 2013 10:30
HARARE - More investment is essential in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), including addressing barriers preventing research into better drug combinations and treatment, says Médecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) official. MSF Head of Mission in Zimbabwe Paul Foreman says last year alone...Read More
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Thursday, 04 April 2013 11:30
HARARE - We read with a lot of interest a recent decision by the European Union (EU) to drop from their so-called sanctions list a number of key Zanu PF leaders and some institutions. In Zimbabwe, there is a general...Read More
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Tuesday, 02 April 2013 11:39
TSHOLOTSHO - Zimbabwe's starving San community, commonly known as bushmen, are demanding to be taken back to the bush saying the government has neglected them for many years. The San were moved from Hwange National Park in the 1920s during...Read More
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Features » Maxwell Sibanda, Assistant Editor
Tuesday, 02 April 2013 10:59
HARARE - The recent removal of 81 Zanu PF members from the European Union, EU sanctions list while leaving 10 others has created a debate among Zimbabweans from across the political and social divide. President Robert Mugabe’s potential heirs, Vice President...Read More
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Wednesday, 27 March 2013 11:58
HARARE - You could almost hear the tills in foreign bank accounts going ‘ka-ching, ka-ching’ when the news came out that 81 people were likely to be removed from the EU sanctions list. In between the sound of rustling British Pounds...Read More
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