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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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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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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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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 » 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 » Guthrie Munyuki, Senior Assistant Editor
Thursday, 20 December 2012 12:46
HARARE - Without political will and genuine desire to tackle corruption, Zimbabwe will continue to moan until thy kingdom! So far, President Robert Mugabe has failed to show that demonstrable desire to signal prosecution of political heavyweights accused of amassing wealth...Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Wednesday, 19 December 2012 13:29
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe’s dream for a March 2013 poll is effectively dead and buried after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) requested at least three months to carry out a comprehensive voter registration exercise. Officials from Zec — the body...Read More
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Monday, 17 December 2012 18:15
HARARE - In 2007, live on British television, the Archbishop of York, Bishop John Sentamu, cut his collar up with scissors to protest against President Robert Mugabe being in power. He said he would only replace his collar if Mugabe was...Read More
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News » Jeffrey Muvundusi, Own Correspondent
Monday, 17 December 2012 18:15
BULAWAYO - Welshman Ncube’s MDC has accused Zanu PF of abusing the late veteran nationalist Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo’s legacy to shore up dwindling support for the party in Matabeleland. Edwin Ndlovu, the smaller MDC’s Bulawayo provincial spokesperson told journalists at the...Read More
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Friday, 14 December 2012 09:51
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF is pulling out all the stops, unveiling a cocktail of empowerment strategies to fight Zimbabwe’s most tightly-contested presidential election in more than a decade. Rival political parties and civil society say Zanu PF and...Read More
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Monday, 10 December 2012 09:56
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe made a powerful pitch for his re-election at the end of the 13th Zanu PF annual convention but even some of his hardcore supporters privately acknowledge his gamble is dicey. Turning 89 in February, Mugabe reinforced...Read More
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Monday, 10 December 2012 09:56
GWERU - President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party is bleeding voters massively, losing almost 250 000 members over the past year. A central committee report tabled at the 13th national people’s conference that ended in Gweru last night, states that the...Read More
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Friday, 07 December 2012 10:37
GWERU - President Robert Mugabe today addresses his last Zanu PF conference as a President of the current government, with next year’s election leaving no guarantee that his party will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year still in power. Having been...Read More
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News » Guthrie Munyuki, Senior Assistant Editor
Thursday, 06 December 2012 11:10
HARARE - They could easily have been summed up as madcap days – February 11 and 13, 2009. President Robert Mugabe, on February 11, 2009, swore in longtime rival Morgan Tsvangirai as Prime Minister and Arthur Mutambara and Thokozani Khupe as...Read More
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