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Chiweshe Guvava Join Constitutional Court
JUDGE President George Chiweshe and Justice Antoinette Guvava are now acting judges of the newly established nine-member Constitutional Court that started work yesterday when it heard a Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) application challenging the ill-treatment of people living with HIV in detention by police and prison officers. Chiweshe and Guvava joined Chief Justice Godfrey ...
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Zimbabwe Zim Faces Food Crisis
THIRTEEN years after its fast track land reform programme, Zimbabwe is still importing most of its food and is far from regaining its breadbasket status. Analysts have said the discordant land tenure system ushered in after the reforms remains an albatross around the economy's neck. However, President Robert Mugabe appears to ignore that the country needs a deep relook at land ...
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Zimbabwe Still Rolling Out the Barrel
Delta Corporation Limited, the biggest counter on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) by capitalisation, recently published results for the 12 months ended March 31 2013. Results from the brewer are always much anticipated by the investment community and as such the results presentation is always well-attended. This is because Delta accounts for 30% of the total market capitalisation on the ZSE ...
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MDC-Ts Shift From Slogans to Ideas
One of the most important characteristics of any group that is developing towards dominance is its struggle to assimilate and conquer ideologically the traditional intellectuals, but as this assimilation and conquest is made quicker and effectively, the more the group succeeds in simultaneously elaborating its own organic intellectuals and solid policy position. In The Ruling Class and the ...
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Mugabes Bid to Airbrush Dark Legacy
WHENEVER President Robert Mugabe speaks in public these days, if he is not involved in political polemics and campaigning, there is always a hint of atonement -- clues that he wants to make amends for his mistakes on the cusp of the sunset of his controversial political career. On Wednesday, in an off-the-cuff speech at the signing ceremony of the new constitution at State House in Harare, he ...
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May 25 Charity Begins At Home
AS the mother continent marks the golden anniversary of Africa Day tomorrow, it would be amiss not to delve into the significance of the founding of the African Union (AU), formerly the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which in essence is the cause for reflection on May 25. Like any human being at the age of 50, independent Africa has surely come of age. Whether the coming of age coincides ...
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Poll Manifestos Parties Sharpen Ideas for Battle
WITH the clock fast-ticking towards make-or-break elections expected later this year, the main political parties in Zimbabwe are now finalising their manifestos set to be launched ahead of polls. In many Western countries like the United States and Britain, well-articulated economic, foreign and social policies often win elections, but in Zimbabwe, this does not appear to be the case. There is ...
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Election Uncertainties Scare Away Investors
The wrangling among Zimbabwe's diverse political parties, numerous political action groups, the president, prime minister and many others in the political hierarchy as well as the media as to when the presidential and parliamentary elections will be (or should be) held is having a grievously negative impact on the country's economy, severely worsening its already very fragile state. ...
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Disenfranchisement of Aliens Xenophobic
IT has been argued that in today's world where countries are increasingly racially and culturally diverse, progressive nations are, among other key indicators, judged by their treatment of minorities. It is thus baffling Zimbabwe is systematically disenfranchising a substantial minority, effectively rendering them second-class citizens. The prolonged battle by the country's so-called ...
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Masvingo Thwarts Resurgent Mujuru Faction
THE Zanu PF faction led by Vice-President Joice Mujuru whose current ascendancy is riding on the party's restructuring exercise was last week thwarted in Masvingo where it failed to remove the executive aligned to Defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa. However, the Mujuru faction sought to establish a firm grip on structures in the province by declaring its regional stalwart, Dzikamai ...
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Zimbabwe Managing Local Content Via Your Websitemag
IN the last instalment TechnoMag had an opportunity to talk to executives behind the wheels of Zimbabwe's technology growth at a broadband forum sponsored by Telecel Zimbabwe and organised by TechZim. Among the notable directors were Zol CEO and Liquid Telecomms director David Behr, chief commercial officer of Africa's largest undersea fibre laying consortium WIOCC, James Wekesa and ...
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Zimbabwe Mugabe Trip to Tokyo to Gobble Millions
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe will next week gobble millions of dollars when he takes a huge entourage of more than 50 government officials to attend the fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (Ticad) from June 1 to 3, the Zimbabwe Independent can reveal. Top government sources said Mugabe is expected to take a high-powered delegation of cabinet ministers, directors of ...
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Chinese Vice Premier Leaves
Chinese Vice Premier Mr Wang Yang yesterday said his three-day visit to Zimbabwe was meant to consolidate the traditional friendship between the two countries for future co-operation. Speaking through an interpreter before his departure at Harare International Airport, Mr Wang said without friendship between the two countries there would not be any co-operation. Mr Wang arrived in Zimbabwe on ...
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Concern Over Low Uptake of Youth Fund
THERE has been a low uptake of the Youth Fund launched two years ago by Old Mutual as only US$2,7 million has been disbursed out of the US$10 million set aside to help young people in various empowerment projects. Lack of requisite skills have been cited as it emerged that out of more than US$4 million worth of projects approved, only US$2,7 million has been disbursed from the fund being ...
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Mugabes under the spotlight – Zimbabwes first family filmed at home
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe with first lady Grace Mugabe at his 89th birthday celebration in February. Photograph: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP/Getty ...
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Seed CO Profits Take a Tumble
ZIMBABWE Stock Exchange-listed seed producer Seed Co's after-tax profits plunged 34 percent to US$12,6 million in the year to March 31, 2013, weighed down by a decline in sales. Revenue for the 12 months also took a knock at US$111 million, representing a 6 percent retreat on the previous year. In a statement, group secretary Mr John Matorofa said the intake rate of the Government's ...
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Poultry Products Now Competitive
The regularising of imports and removal of import duty on soya meal has resulted in the local poultry producers competing with the South Africa, Zimbabwe Poultry Association chairman, Mr Solomon Zawe, has said. Speaking at the ZPA annual general meeting in Harare on Wednesday, Mr Zawe said there has been a remarkable decline of imported poultry products on the market. He said Brazilian ...
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Philips to Invest in Zim Health
Royal PHILIPS, the leading global healthcare and lighting company, has expressed its commitment to help improve health care infrastructure in the country. Debriefing journalists in Harare yesterday about their annual roadshow, the company's general manager in Africa, Mr Peter van de Ven, said technology enhanced lives as it enabled early detection of complications. This year's ...
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Zimra Faces Internet Challenges At Beitbridge Border Post
Beitbridge Bureau - The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has engaged their internet service provider to attend to the technical fault at Manica Transit Shed in Beitbridge where the processing of vehicle imports has been seriously affected by connectivity problems. The development follows an outcry by car importers forcing the parastatal to revert to calculating duty for vehicle imports at Beitbridge ...
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The Case for Buying Local Goods
AS we edge towards the Buy Zimbabwe Procurement Conference scheduled for Monday May 27, at the Meikles Hotel, the demand for decisiveness in taking practical steps to reduce the current unsustainable import deficit by, among other things, definitive local procurement quotas, has gained momentum On Wednesday, the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development held the last of its public consultation ...
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Water Situation in Harare to Ease
POTABLE water supply to all parts of Harare is likely to stabilise in another 10 months once work on the first phase of the African Development Bank funded Water Supply and Sanitation Rehabilitation Project (UWSSRP) is complete, a senior council official has said. Town clerk Dr Tendai Mahachi gave the assurance after he confirmed that work had begun at Morton Jaffray Water Treatment Plant and ...
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President Signs New Constitution Into Law
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has signed into law the country's new constitution which aims to bolster human rights and curb presidential powers. As a next step, lawmakers must set a date for general elections. "This is a happening of joy, great joy indeed," Mugabe said at the signing ceremony on Wednesday to loud applause from lawmakers. "We want now to build the ...
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Masekos Burial Programme Begins
THE body of national hero and former Matabeleland North Governor Retired Major-General Jevan Maseko will be taken to his farm in Nyamandlovu today after a morning service at the Selborne Park Seventh-Day Adventist Church here. Rtd Maj-Gen Maseko, who succumbed to renal failure, amyloidosis cancer and diabetes on Monday, will be buried at the National Heroes Acre on Sunday. The body is expected ...
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ANC U.S. Congratulate Zim On Constitution
South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the United States ambassador to Zimbabwe have congratulated President Mugabe and the generality of Zimbabweans following the coming into law of a new Constitution for the country on Wednesday. Zimbabweans from across the political divide also saluted the inclusive Government for successfully sealing the constitution deal without ...
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President Leaves For AU
President Mugabe left for Ethiopia today to attend the African Union's golden jubillee celebrations that will take place in that country's capital Addis Ababa on Saturday. He was accompanied by his daughter Bona, Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara and several Government officials. President Mugabe was seen off at the Harare International Airport by Vice President Joice Mujuru, ...
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