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Friday, 21 December 2012 10:48
HARARE - The ANC’s Mangaung Congress this week dominated the political media space. The Bull Eland observed that Zimbabweans were more interested in that electoral outcome than ongoings at home. This attitude reminded me of how things that happen next door...Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Tuesday, 11 December 2012 11:54
HARARE - Prospects of a breakthrough in the constitution-making process logjam hinge on today’s meeting between President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF and the two MDC formations led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Industry and Commerce minister Welshman Ncube. Mugabe, in...Read More
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News » Chengetayi Zvauya, Parliamentary Editor
Tuesday, 11 December 2012 11:31
HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has cautioned President Robert Mugabe to stop making speeches and statements that incite political violence. Tsvangirai made the statement yesterday at Glen Forest Cemetery in Harare during the burial of Nyarai Makone, 31, daughter of...Read More
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Sunday, 11 November 2012 15:06
HARARE - The underlying cause of the Zimbabwean crisis lies in the State’s failure to initiate and sustain a growth process that is robust and inclusive. The ruling party Zanu PF, under the leadership of Robert Mugabe therefore lost support...Read More
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News » Ndakaziva Majaka, Staff Writer
Saturday, 03 November 2012 14:42
HARARE - Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has rubbished reports that his committee has failed to compensate more than 1 200 villagers displaced by Zanu PF ally and businessman Billy Rautenbach. Mutambara is heading the government inter-ministerial taskforce established to resolve...Read More
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Wednesday, 31 October 2012 10:53
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe is sticking to his guns demanding that the draft constitution be brought before the three coalition government Principals before being tabled in Parliament. The planned new charter is expected to lay the foundation for free and...Read More
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Wednesday, 31 October 2012 10:28
HARARE - The official opening of the Fifth Session of Seventh Parliament yesterday marked the final leg of Zimbabwe’s troubled coalition, with Zanu PF officials talking up the prospect of elections early next year. After failing to vigorously push the legislative...Read More
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Saturday, 27 October 2012 12:08
HARARE - It was not so long into the inclusive government that its adversaries and at least those who seem to have lost it started agitating for a do-or-die election. This election talk is militating against the performance of the inclusive...Read More
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Friday, 26 October 2012 10:16
HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday briefed Botswana President Ian Khama about political developments in Zimbabwe’s troubled inclusive government and urged him to support economic recovery. Tsvangirai, who is on a two-day working visit, met Khama in Gaborone and updated...Read More
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Tuesday, 23 October 2012 09:46
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe yesterday shamed hardliners in his Zanu PF party who have taken every opportunity to ridicule Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai by conceding that the two rivals share executive power. In a speech pregnant with peace messages, Mugabe...Read More
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News » Richard Chidza, Staff Writer
Monday, 22 October 2012 09:17
HARARE - Zimbabweans whose rights have been violated in the past 32 years can kiss justice goodbye — at least until after the next elections, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said. Speaking at a recent lecture series, Tsvangirai said there was...Read More
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Monday, 22 October 2012 09:17
BULAWAYO - Leader of the smaller MDC faction by legislative representation, Welshman Ncube, says most ministers in the coalition government are defying Cabinet decisions, preferring to listen to their political parties instead. Addressing a Bulawayo civic society meeting to discuss constitution...Read More
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Friday, 19 October 2012 08:58
HARARE - As the jostling for the right to represent Zanu PF in the forthcoming legislative elections intensifies, cracks are widening amid revelations that the old guard and the young turks are engaged in pitched battles to secure a nomination. Zanu...Read More
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News » Richard Chidza, Staff Writer
Thursday, 18 October 2012 09:45
HARARE - Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara’s waning political career has suffered another dent after he was snubbed by the Constitution Select Committee (Copac). Mutambara, despite claiming to head a faction of the MDC, will not be allowed near the podium...Read More
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News » Jeffrey Muvundusi, Own Correspondent
Friday, 12 October 2012 09:54
BULAWAYO - Welshman Ncube, leader of the smaller MDC faction, says despite years of President Robert Mugabe’s strong-hand rule, nothing can stop the collective will of the people from defeating the 88-year-old. Ncube who was addressing the civic society in Bulawayo...Read More
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