Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change party says it won’t return farms seized from white owners by President Robert Mugabe if it leads the government.
An MDC government would ask the international community and multilateral lenders to help compensate farmers whose farms were confiscated by Mugabe’s government since 2000, the opposition party said in an e-mailed [...]
Botswana on Friday deported a fierce henchman of President Robert Mugabe’s regime, Ceasar Zvayi, the former political editor of the state-run Herald newspaper who had taken up a lecturing post at the University of Botswana.
Zvayi was recently added to the United States and European Union sanctions list.
Zvayi was served with a deportation order and driven [...]
That Mugabe must now go is thus no longer a dismissible opposition slogan but a strategic necessity that desperately needs urgent legal and constitutional action by Mugabe himself well ahead of the presidential election scheduled for March 2008 in order to safeguard Zimbabwe’s national interest, security and sovereignty.
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - South African President Thabo Mbeki will visit Zimbabwe this weekend to meet the country’s political rivals, his government said Friday, amid signs power-sharing talks have moved closer to a deal.
The trip by Mbeki, who mediates in negotiations between President Robert Mugabe’s party and the Zimbabwe opposition, comes after more than two weeks [...]
THE first councillors for Gokwe town were sworn-in on Tuesday at a colourful ceremony during which Ward 4 councillor, Mr Darlington Mudondo, was elected the first town chairperson.
Councillor Vengesai Chipfuko was elected vice-chairperson.
Six councillors, all from the MDC-T party were sworn in by Gokwe South District Administrator, Mrs Melody Mafukidze at the town’s community hall.
Acting [...]
HARARE, August 6 2008 - The Zimbabwe National Students’ Union (ZINASU)has petitioned the Botswana government to deport former Herald political editor, Caesar Zvayi, who recently quit the State-controlled publication to work as a lecturer at the University of Botswana.
Zvayi, a former geography teacher accused of promoting hate language on behalf of the President Robert Mugabe’s [...]
MDC Mutambara faction deputy secretary general Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga is the source of the media mole story that was published by the newzimbabwe.com website that alleged that MDC Women’s Assembly chair Theresa Makone,MDC-Harare North., was dismissed from the talks, Metro has established.
The story was fed to Mduduzi Mathuthu the website’s editor and has since been proven [...]
Dabengwa to form new Ndebele party
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By Xolani Sibanda 04-08-08
Bulawayo- Former Minister of Home Affairs in the Robert Mugabe led Zanu PF
government Dumiso Dabengwa has declared that he is under consultation to
lead a proposed political party project that serve the interests of the
minority Ndebele people.
Speaking at the Bulawayo [...]
The Joint Operation Command which orchestrated the violence that ravaged the country during the disputed Presidential run-off election is set to join the negotiations in South Africa later on this week,according to a source.
The SADC,AU,UN reference group and mediator Thabo Mbeki felt that on top of the political representation to the talks the Joint Operations [...]
Cash shortages continue to be reported around Zimbabwe on Monday as banks
struggled to reconfigure equipment to handle the new currency that the
central bank started to distribute on Friday. Sources said the distribution
of new bank notes in smaller denominations has been limited so far and that
old notes remain in circulation in most [...]
