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Zimbabwes Tsvangirai says Mugabes Party is Dead
HARARE Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday declared President Robert Mugabe's party "dead.rdquo; Tsvangirai said the African country's next elections will be a "formalityrdquo; and predicted a landslide victory. The lead vocalist is Zimbabwe's prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai. The backing vocals are from the leadership of his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) ...
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Chinese vice premier to attend AU special summit
Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang will pay an official visit to Zimbabwe and attend a special summit of the African Union in Ethiopia from May 21 to 25, reported Xinhua. Wang will attend the special summit to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Organization for African Unity, the predecessor to the African Union. He will attend the event, to be held in the Ethiopian capital ...
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DDF Repairs Roads in Preparation for Polls
The District Development Fund has started repairing access and feeder roads across the country in preparation for harmonised elections expected next month. This followed indications made by stakeholders, including the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission and the provincial government structures, that some areas were difficult to access during the constitutional referendum held in February. DDF ...
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Tsvangirai Loses Bid to Delay Polls
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's bid to block a Harare man, Mr Jealousy Mawarire's court application for early proclamation of election dates to be heard on an urgent basis failed yesterday after the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the man. Mr Mawarire had approached the superior court seeking an order to have his case heard on urgent basis arguing that the life of Parliament and ...
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Sam Mtukudzis Tombstone to Be Unveiled Today
SUPERSTAR Oliver Mtukudzi, who returned from his overseas tour this week, will miss out on the three-day Mutare Music Festival which began yesterday to attend to the unveiling of his son's tombstone at Warren Hills Cemetery. Mtukudzi lost his son Sam in a car crash on March 15, 2010 that also claimed the life of his childhood friend and sound engineer Owen Chimhare. Although by yesterday, ...
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What Future White Viewpoint
We are headed for very interesting times I tell you. The MDCs do not want elections before or by June 29, which is when the life of Parliament extinguishes itself. Yet they harp on laws which need realignment with the new constitution when it comes into force, and all this before we go for elections. This is increasingly sounding like a precondition. Those laws would have to be passed by ...
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ZEC to Start New Voter Registration Exercise
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission said yesterday that it will start a new voter registration exercise once President Mugabe assents to the new constitution, but says funding for the process has to be released now. Zec chairperson Justice Rita Makarau said after meeting with fellow commissioners to plan for the new voter registration and to exchange experiences on the on-going exercise that ends ...
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Can the Derby Come to Life
THE world's most famous football clash for over half a century has been the "El Classico" in Spain, featuring Barcelona and Real Madrid. From the late '50s until now, the razzmatazz, emotional and dazzling encounters that have engulfed the football globe, whenever these two giants clash, has lost none of its sparkle. Real's Alfredo di Stefano and Barca's Josep ...
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Teen Maternal Deaths Up
Teenagers in the 15-19 years age group constitute a quarter of institutional maternal deaths recorded between January and July this year, a Government analysis has revealed. According to the analysis produced by the reproductive health unit in the Health and Child Welfare Ministry, a total of 224 death notification forms were received at the head office. It is from these forms that data was ...
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Hosiah Chipanga On Enigmatic Lifestyle
AFTER more than three decades of churning out sungura tunes on a gospel tip tackling social ills in a biting and subliminal way, Hosiah Chipanga's personality has bubbled to the surface in a big way. Now a ripe 61 years old, Chipanga showcases himself as an apostle, a spirit medium, a state advisor and a politician. Chipanga has created an array of confusing alter egos which have now ...
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MDC-T Launches Promising Transformation Plan
The MDC led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday launched its plans for transforming Zimbabwe, plans which have been described as "promising." Tsvangirai on Friday officially opened his party's 8th policy conference in Harare, a three day event that will set the tone for his and his party's election campaign this year. The theme for the conference is: "Towards ...
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Harare City Council Needs $2.5 Billion to Address Citys Water Woes
The Harare City Council on Thursday revealed that it requires a staggering $2.5 billion to roll out a programme to address the city's water problems. Speaking to journalists, Harare Mayor Muchadeyi Masunda said the programme would ensure that residents have uninterrupted supplies, during a week when most residents had no water. The dormitory town of Chitungwiza, which gets its water from ...
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Policy to Transform Zim Launched
The policy that will open Zimbabwe for business, usher in substantive reforms in various sectors with the sole objective of spurring economic growth, restore our collective dignity and creating jobs for the millions of unemployed Zimbabweans has been launched. The policy was launched Friday at a colorful ceremony held at the Jubilee Christian Centre in Harare. Even young people who are ...
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Zim for Inaugural Childrens World Cup
CHILDREN from local homes will have an opportunity to showcase their talent when they take part in the World Cup of Children from Care Homes "Hope for Mundial" to be held in Warsaw, Poland,next month. The event will be held on June 15 and 16 and the participating teams are expected to arrive on June 13. Zimbabwe was invited for the inaugural World Cup after Kutting Edge Sports ...
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Cowdray Park Residents Battle Ongoing Water Problems in the Dry City
Residents in the still growing Cowdray Park suburb of Bulawayo are battling with ongoing water shortages that have plagued the area for more than seven years. Thousands of people, allocated stands in the area, have been forced to add hours of queuing for water into their every day plans. They say the water problems have been caused by bad planning, with only five communal taps servicing eight ...
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Zimbabwe Election Date Will Only Be Decided After Voter Registration
The date for an election will only be decided when the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission completes its voter registration and inspection exercise, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said. The MDC-T leader said when the new constitution comes into effect, ZEC will have to roll out a 30 day voter registration exercise followed by another month of voter inspection. 'Once these are done, there ...
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Mugabe’s party accuses Coca Cola of promoting rival party ahead of election
A man waits to obtain his national identity card during a voter registration drive in Harare ahead of the general election. Photograph: Philimon ...
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Zimbabwe Business Delegation Visits USA
WASHINGTON DC -- A high-powered delegation of business executives and top government officials has arrived in Washington DC to link Zimbabweans in the diaspora with captains of industry and commerce in an effort to revive the Zimbabwe economy. Esau Mavindidze of the Zimbabwe Business Network International, which is hosting the delegation with Zimbabwe Expo Business Consortium, said the ...
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Ncube Take Advantage of Voter Registration Exercise
WASHINGTON -- Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Welshman Ncube says Zimbabweans should take advantage of the up-coming thirty-day voter registration exercise to ensure their names are on the voters roll as the country prepares for fresh elections. The exercise will begin soon after the Zimbabwe Constitution Amendment Bill Number 20 is signed by President Robert Mugabe and gazetted ...
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Mugabes Party Dispatches Probe Team to Deal With Deepening Factionalism in Masvingo
WASHINGTON -- A Zanu-PF probe team led by chairman Simon Khaya Moyo is now in the volatile Masvingo Province to try and address factionalism that might prove costly for the party in the forthcoming election. Sources in Masvingo told VOA that some Provincial Cordinating Committee (PCC) members met last weekend and vowed to resist any attempts to dissolve the provincial leadership as has ...
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Tsvangirai Vows to Fight Graft Unemployment if Party Wins Elections
HARARE -- Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday vowed to fight corruption to high unemployment levels in the country is his party wins fresh elections expected to be called sometime this year. Mr. Tsvangirai made the commitment in an address officially opening his party’s three-day national policy conference horning out its top priority policies to champion during the ...
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Zimbabwe’s Mr. Ironman Contest Back After Two-Year Absence
HARARE -- One of Zimbabwe’s top bodybuilding competitions, Mr. Ironman, returns to the Zimbabwean sports calendar after two years of absence. The Zimbabwe Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation says Mr. and Miss Ironman competition will be held on June 1 in the Mashonaland West town of Kadoma instead of its traditional Harare venue as the federation seeks to spread the sport around the ...
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Zim PM confident of unseating Mugabe
';We are going to be new brooms'; for change, he told about 500 party leaders and activists at a party conference to finalize a platform. He will be pitted against long-time ruler President Robert Mugabe, 89, in elections. No date has been set but it is expected to be held around ...
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Zimbabwe Men Fear Vasectomy
WASHINGTON DC -- Less than 500 men undergo vasectomy each year in zimbabwe as a form of birth control compared to almost half a million people in the United States of America who take ...
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A New Dawn for Zimbabwe
For many years travelers have avoided Zimbabwe, aware that the country was ruled by a brutal regime. But Robert Mugabe's time is growing short, safari lodges are filling up, and the spectacular wildlife is flourishing ...
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