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2012-02-02, Issue 568
Professor Welshman Ncube has once again denied claims contained in a book by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai that he and former South African President Thabo Mbeki connived to split the MDC into two factions in 2005. In the book ‘At the Deep End’ Ts...
Zimbabwe: Typhoid stalks Harare
2012-01-31, Issue 568
Over the past few weeks some 900 residents of the Zimbabwean capital Harare have been diagnosed with typhoid, and about 60 have been admitted to hospital, say health authorities. There have been no confirmed fatalities from the disease, although seni...
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai issues strong letter to Mugabe
2012-02-06, Issue 568
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has written a strongly-worded letter to to President Robert Mugabe outlining his problems with the coalition government. The leaked letter addresses areas such as land, violent acts, diplomatic protocol, arrest of min...
Zimbabwe: Mujuru inquest hears gory details
2012-01-25, Issue 567
The body of Zimbabwe’s first army commander General Solomon Mujuru had a hole in the abdomen and emitted blue flames when it was retrieved from his farmhouse that was gutted by fire last year, an inquest heard on Tuesday. Police Constable Clatwell Ga...
Zimbabwe: Mujuru guard stuns court
2012-01-17, Issue 566
A security guard employed at the late General Solomon Mujuru’s farm, Clemence Runhare, stunned a court when he said he heard what sounded like gunfire two hours before he was alerted to a fire that killed the former army commander in August last year...
Zimbabwe: Court rules that WOZA kidnap case must continue, despite no evidence
2012-01-19, Issue 566
A magistrate in Bulawayo ruled on Monday 16 January that activists Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu will have to defend themselves against kidnap and theft charges, even though the key witnesses denied the incident ever happened and contradicted...
Zimbabwe: Two vendors in hospital after police torture
2012-01-16, Issue 565
Two of the seven men arrested last Thursday, following skirmishes between police and vendors in central Harare the day before, were allegedly tortured to confess their roles in attacking a police officer. Barnabas Mwanaka and Kudakwashe Usavi were am...
Zimbabwe: ZANU PF running parallel government
2012-01-16, Issue 565
Several events in the last two months have shown that Zimbabwe’s coalition government exists in name only and that Mugabe and his ZANU PF party are now blatantly running a parallel government. Towards the end of December Mugabe unilaterally promoted ...
Zimbabwe: Khama, Mugabe mend relations
2011-12-13, Issue 563
Botswana President Ian Khama, an arch-critic of President Robert Mugabe, could be working on normalising relations with the octogenarian leader after he sent a delegation from his party to 'offer solidarity support' to Zanu PF at the just ended annu...
Zimbabwe: Uncovering Zimbabwe’s debt
2011-12-14, Issue 563
For the last decade the Zimbabwean government has been in default on most of its debt owed to the rest of the world, currently estimated to be around US$7 billion. This debt dates primarily from loans made in the 1980s and 1990s by private lenders su...
Zimbabwe: WOZA members acquitted while Williams and Mahlangu appear on trial
2011-12-15, Issue 563
Women of Zimbabwe Arise report on a case in which charges against six women were dismissed. In another case, two women face a case seen as an attempt to fix them with criminal charges.


Zimbabwe: Civil servants give government ultimatum
2011-12-20, Issue 563
Unions representing civil servants in the country have given the coalition government up until the end of December to review their salaries, or face crippling industrial action in the new year. The unions are demanding a minimum salary in line with t...
Zimbabwe: The Cablegate implications
2011-12-08, Issue 562
WikiLeaks’ archive of US State department cables on Zimbabwe has highlighted human rights abuses, corruption, and profound divisions within both the ruling party and the opposition, shaking the establishment in Zimbabwe. Political analysts suggest th...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe insists on re-election bid
2011-12-12, Issue 562
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has said it would be an act of cowardice for him to retire ahead of elections expected to be held next year. Closing his party's annual conference, Mr Mugabe, 87, condemned the current power-sharing government as a ...
Zimbabwe: Nuclear scare as Iran plans to share technology
2011-11-22, Issue 559
In what has ignited strong fears of nuclear resource transfer between Zimbabwe and Tehran, the nuclear-power pursuing nation, Iran, has stated that it intends to share technology and scientific resources and expertise with the nation of Zimbabwe. Thi...
Zimbabwe: Hard times in Matabeleland
2011-11-27, Issue 559
Nationally, Zimbabwe is more food secure at the end of 2011 than it has been for several years. However, parts of Zimbabwe suffered serious crop failure earlier this year and a million people are still predicted to need supplementary feeding. In Gwan...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe cornered at summit
2011-11-15, Issue 558
Regional leaders meeting for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Angola cornered President Robert Mugabe and told him Zimbabwe could not hold elections without reforms that would guarantee free and fair elections. He was also ...
Zimbabwe: MDC-T, MDC-N and ZANU PF to meet over violence
2011-11-09, Issue 557
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has told journalists that the national executives of all three political parties in the inclusive government will meet to discuss the worsening political violence in the country. ZANU PF Central Committee members and ...
Zimbabwe: Draft constitution expected in December
2011-11-01, Issue 556
The team drafting the constitution, the Constitution Select Committee (Copac) has said that the final phase of the drafting process will start next month. Copac co-chairperson Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana said that the document would be put to a referend...
Zimbabwe: Marange diamonds cleared despite ongoing abuses
2011-11-02, Issue 556
The global diamonds watchdog, the Kimberley Process, has cleared Zimbabwe to sell alluvial diamonds from the controversial Marange fields, despite documented evidence that top military and political chefs are involved in massive looting and that huma...
Zimbabwe: Police tear gas PM's party base
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2011-11-02, Issue 556
Zimbabwe police Tuesday 01 November raided Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC party headquarters, fired tear gas at staff and beat up people in the central business district, witnesses said. Police 'blocked Harvest House (MDC headquarters) staff ...
Zimbabwe: Torture survivor compensated
2011-11-03, Issue 556
On Wednesday 26 October 2011, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum’s Public Interest Unit (PIU) successfully applied for a default judgment on behalf of its client, Mr. Weston Katiyo. Mr. Katiyo is a victim of Organised Violence and Torture (OVT). He ...
Zimbabwe: An overview of the Marange diamond fields
2011-11-03, Issue 556
The discovery of massive diamond deposits in Zimbabwe has led to hundreds of media reports exploring the abuse of human rights and grandscale corruption. It can be difficult to keep up to date with events as they unfold, or to tease out the key story...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe supporters stone Zimbabwe PM's rally
2011-11-07, Issue 556
Young supporters of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe stoned and beat backers of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Sunday, blocking a planned rally of his Movement for Democratic Change party. 'Unfortunately we are unable to do this rally because ...
Zimbabwe: Government rejects recommendations to human rights
2011-10-25, Issue 554
The Zimbabwean government through its Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Hon. Patrick Chinamasa has only accepted 81 recommendations to improve the country’s precarious human rights situation and to improve compliance with international human rights ...
Zimbabwe: Branson plotted to oust Mugabe
2011-10-18, Issue 553
Yes, there was a secret plot to oust President Robert Mugabe. Yes, Sir Richard Branson was one of its ringleaders. But the British billionaire has vehemently denied last week’s extraordinary claims that he once offered a £6.5 million bribe to persuad...
Zimbabwe: Zimbabweans 'sent to die', says newspaper
2011-10-24, Issue 553
Senior officials of the Hawks and the South African Police Services are conducting an illegal 'rendition' with their Zimbabwean counterparts, the Sunday Times has reported. The newspaper reported that the government agencies arrest 'suspects' and ill...
Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe offers Rowan Williams tea but little sympathy
2011-10-11, Issue 552
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams presented Robert Mugabe with a dossier of alleged abuses perpetrated against worshippers over the past four years. In response, the president delivered a history lesson on Anglo-Zimbabwean relations, detailed h...
Zimbabwe: Pressure mounts on foreign firms
2011-10-04, Issue 551
As Zimbabwe begins investigating 700 foreign-owned companies that missed this week's deadline to submit plans on the sale of majority shares to locals, investors are looking to a deal struck by Old Mutual for clues on compliance. The company, the lar...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe admits he has no power to order elections
2011-10-10, Issue 551
For a man who thrives on giving the impression he is in total control, Robert Mugabe surprised many people on Thursday when he admitted he could not call for elections when he wants them. Addressing the ZANU PF Central Committee in Harare Mugabe said...
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