Al Jazeera Kicked out of Zimbabwe

Al Jazeera has been denied permission to operate in Zimbabwe, a source in the Ministry of Information and Publicity told Metro.
Its Harare bureau will be moved to Johannesburg.
The source said the government was not happy with its plans to fire its correspondent Supa Mandiwanzira who is being accused of not being objective.

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Developing:Reserve Bank looted

Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono and Zimbabwean stockbroker Mohamed Mohamed are working around the clock to loot billions of dollars in foreign exchange, which they cash in before midnight every day, store and transport to Dubai every two weeks.
Mohamed travels with cash every second Tuesday to Dubai where he wires it through to bank accounts [...]

Matonga’s father dies

Enock Mandishona Matonga (83), father of Deputy Minister of Information and Publicity Bright Matonga, has died.
Matonga who died at the Avenues Clinic after a long struggle with prostate cancer.
His wife Sarah died in 2005.

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SADC Observers given conditions

Metro has learnt that the SADC election observers have been given conditions.
They have been instructed to return to their hotels by 5pm each day during their stay and they have also been told they must start their work after 8am.
SADC guidelines do not restrict the movement of observers.

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Mutambara arrested

Police have arrested the leader of a breakaway faction of the MDC, Arthur Mutambara, for publishing an article critical of President Robert Mugabe.

Mugabe will accept defeat

President Robert Mugabe expects to win next month’s presidential runoff, but will not cling to power if he loses, the government newspaper reported Monday.
“We are very, very confident we will win this election”, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was quoted as saying in Monday’s edition of The Herald.

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‘We will burn Zimbabweans if they stay’

“WE will burn the Zimbabweans if they don‘t go back,” were the chilling words of a 25-year-old man arrested for public violence in Ramaphosa on the East Rand yesterday as police deployed specialists to stop the xenophobic attacks which have left at least 22 people dead in a week.

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Judge orders by-election

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has 14 days from last Friday to call a by-election for the Pelandaba-Mpopoma House of Assembly seat, a judge ruled.

CIO seize X-rays

Central Intelligence Organization ’s special branch attached to the office of President Robert Mugabe, has seized X-rays and medical reports from state hospitals to suppress evidence of assaults.

Six killed in Shamva

In the last 48 hours it has been confirmed that 6 people were beaten to death in the Shamva area and 10 others have been killed in Centenary.