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MDC blasts Chiyangwa

HARARE - MDC-T has reacted harshly to outbursts by businessman Phillip Chiyangwa that the party was corrupt, poor and unready to govern.
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South Africa calms down deportation fears

Johannesburg - South Africa was not planning to randomly deport Zimbabweans at the end of the year, a senior home affairs official said on Friday.
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The Feeble Mugabe Gotcha

Some sceptics have often asked why Tony Blair was happy to help rid the world of some dictators and not others. The example most often cited is that of Robert Mugabe, who could have been deposed with even less effort than Saddam Hussein
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Disputed Attorney-General's office drafting new Electoral Act Bill

A draft of the proposed amendments to the country’s Electoral Law is being worked upon by legal experts in the Attorney-General’s office, it has been revealed.
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Tsvangirai and family pays visit to a Nigerian Pastor - Report

LAGOS - Zimbabwe Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, yesterday arrived Nigeria to seek the face of God at the Synagogue Church of all Nations in Ikotun, Lagos, South West Nigeria, a source told P.M.NEWS this morning.
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ZANU-PF's proxy businessmen close-in on BP & Shell assets

HARARE - Oil major BP and Shell has narrowed down its Zimbabwean–asset buyers’ shortlist to six, amid reports that an Oliver Chidawu–led investment group is a frontrunner for the portfolio.
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Robert Mugabe deploys security agents to Apostolic sect meetings

ZANU-PF has intensified its campaign on members of the Apostolic sect this time deploying officials from the Registrar General who are giving birth and national registration certificates at the church gatherings.
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Zimbabwe media precarious - US Ambassador

BULAWAYO - The United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray says despite the formation of an inclusive government, the country's journalists are still operating in a dangerous environment.
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South Africa to resume deportations of Zimbabweans

Cape Town - South African government's cabinet has approved a proposal to end the special dispensation for Zimbabwean nationals introduced in April 2009, government spokesman Themba Maseko said on Thursday.
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Paranoid Robert Mugabe rejects US$50bn loan

HARARE - Cash strapped Zimbabwe coalition government has turned down a loan offer of up to US$50 billion from Norange Capital Mar-kets of South Africa after security checks indicated the money could be “dirty”.
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Zimbabwe: After Robert Mugabe

OPINION - The president's health is in the spotlight – and the hardline military generals are set to determine the face of Zimbabwe's future
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Mliswa made me destitute - witness

HARARE - The trial of Zanu-PF activist and businessman Temba Mliswa continued at the Harare magistrate’s court Wednesday with key State witness, Paul Westwood narrating how stressed and traumatized he was when he was forced out of his company, Noshio Motors.
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The Zimbabwe Economy : Third Quarter 2010 Economic Indicators and Trends – John Robertson

While the rand has remained strong against the US dollar, its fairly steady rate and the almost static business conditions in the domestic economy have made Zimbabwe’s inflation a less threatening issue in recent months.
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'Beware of Robert Mugabe,' Makumbe warns Chanakira

HARARE - “Be wary of Mugabe’s benefaction,” is the warning Professor John Makumbe is giving Nigel Chanakira in his on-going wrangle for control of Kingdom Financial Holdings Ltd (KFHL).
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Blair regrets not toppling Robert Mugabe

LONDON - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair defends his foreign policy record, revealing that the experience of Iraq and Afghanistan has not diminished his commitment to taking on opponents.
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Kenya/Zimbabwe: Power sharing for peace, not political change

Unity governments create some space for economic recovery, but political problems go unresolved as security forces and conservative political groups conspire to maintain the status quo.
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Tsvangirai reshuffles

HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has rang changes in his information department – both at his Munhumutapa Building government offices and at Harvest House, his political party’s headquarters in Harare.
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Mugabe and Kasukuwere sucked into Mliswa's woes

HARARE - President Robert Mugabe and Minister of Youth Development Saviour Kasukuwere have been implicated in the case of businessman and sports personality Temba Mliswa accused of fraud involving over US$1 million.
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Man raped at gunpoint by three women

THREE women on Saturday abducted a 24-year-old Chinhoyi man at gunpoint and forced him to be intimate with two of them at a secluded spot on the town’s outskirts.
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Like Robert Mugabe, Mutambara launches tirade at funeral

FILABUSI - There was drama at the burial of the late MDC deputy president Gibson Sibanda in Filabusi Sunday, when Deputy Prime minister Arthur Mutambara publicly challenged Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Deputy President John Nkomo to explain why the government they lead was burying an exemplary hero of Sibanda’s stature at his rural home and not at the national heroes acre.
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Mugabe's bodyguard in sudden death

HARARE - One of Robert Mugabe's decorated bodyguards has died suddenly. Cain Chademana, a Senior Police Assistant Commissioner and one of Mugabe's most trusted guards died last Thursday after a shot illness.
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Mugabe incites Nigel Chanakira to sieze Miekles

Harare-Robert Mugabe on Saturday incited Zanu PF businessman Nigel Chanakira to apply the controversial indigenisation law in order to end the shareholding dispute he is having with John Moxon over Meikles Africa.
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India's Jindal Steel to re-bid for 70% in Zimbabwe’s Zisco

NEW DELHI - Jindal Steel and Power plans to re-bid for a controlling stake in Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company, or Zisco, more than two months after the African company rejected the Delhi-based firm’s earlier bid.
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Robert Mugabe lambasts Black farmers

CHIVHU - Zimbabwe’s long-time ruler, President Robert Mugabe on Sunday stunned black farmers as he questioned their agriculture skills saying the current new crop of farmers would not restore the country’s status as a bread basket.
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Mixed reaction to Zimbabwe’s new teen parent law

ZIMBABWE’S government has had to fend off charges that it is encouraging teen sex after deciding to grant parental leave to pregnant schoolgirls and soon- to-be dads.
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Government receives a mere $30 million divident from diamonds sales

THE Zimbabwean government has received $30 million in dividends from the Canadile and Mbada diamonds companies – the two firms currently operating in Marange diamond fields.
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Mugabe’s Youth League advises ANC Youths to invade white owned SA farms

The ANC Youth league’s members cheered and encouraged Zanu PF’s Youth League’s speakers at their general council this weekend as they urged them to take Mugabe’s example and grab land from the white minority and nationalize mines “now or never."
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Blair secretly courted Mugabe to boost trade - Report

LONDON - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair secretly courted Robert Mugabe in an effort to win lucrative trade deals for Britain, it has emerged in correspondence released to The Independent under the Freedom of Information Act.
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MDC-T threatens ‘No Vote’ campaign

MDC-T has threatened a “No Vote” campaign if the proposed constitution does not reflect the will of the people.
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Zimbabwe central bank to fire 85%

Harare - Zimbabwe's bankrupt central bank is to retrench 85% of its bloated staff complement to help it move back into the black and function as a reliable national bank, according to Finance Minister Tendai Biti.
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