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Zimbabwe activist says prisoners are denied HIV drugs
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A Zimbabwean human rights activist says he wants the nation's highest court to order prison authorities to ensure suspects in jail can receive their life-prolonging HIV/AIDS medications.Douglas Muzanenhamo said in court documents Friday he was denied anti-retroviral drugs when detained for a month in 2011 on treason charges. He was acquitted of involvement in ...
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Minister Charged With Insulting Mugabe Acquitted
WASHINGTON -- Zimbabwean Energy Minister and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change deputy treasurer Elton Mangoma was Friday acquitted on charges of insulting President Robert Mugabe. Mangoma was arrested in October last year and charged with contravening Section 33 (2) (a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act. His purported crime? On May 18 ...
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Africas Future Unclear as AU Celebrates 50 Years
WASHINGTON, DC -- There is a saying: "with age comes wisdom." As the African Union (AU) celebrates turning 50 years old on Saturday at its headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, many are asking whether the institution is any smarter and more effective as it faces mounting security and developmental challenges across the ...
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Facebook character stirs up Zimbabwe politics
Baba Jukwa on Facebook for a few months now, on the advice of a businessman and friend in Harare who was convinced that this was something special, something important - a genuine insider's account of the factional battles and corruption with President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF. It is certainly been an interesting read at an important time in Zimbabwe, with elections likely within the ...
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Football Week in Review May 24 2013
Chelsea's Ashley Cole (top) challenges Benfica's Eduardo Salvio during their Europa League final soccer match at the Amsterdam Arena May 15, 2013. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir (NETHERLANDS - Tags: SPORT SOCCER) - ...
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Zim Can Have More Radio TV Stations
ZIMBABWE has enough frequencies to licence more radio and television stations despite assertions by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) and Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (Baz) that the frequency spectrum is fully utilised. The Media and Technology Trust (MTT), a local advocacy group for media freedom and access to information, says since the analogue ...
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Political Deal Cutting As MDC-T Primaries Begin
The MDC-T's long-awaited primary elections commence this weekend amid accusations that behind the scenes some aspiring candidates are cutting deals while others have subtly been blocked from contesting against party heavyweights through the controversial confirmation process. The divisive process reignites deep-seated factionalism within the party, particularly in volatile Manicaland, ...
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Politburo Supports Mujuru to Succeed Mugabe
VICE-PRESIDENT Joice Mujuru has virtually secured a copper-bottomed guarantee to take over as the next president of Zimbabwe in the event that President Robert Mugabe resigns, is incapacitated or dies in office, provided he wins the next elections, it has emerged. Senior Zanu PF politburo members said this week, barring unforeseen events and circumstances, Mujuru was almost assured of taking ...
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Zim Struggles to Turn Human Rights Corner
WHENEVER its democratic and human rights record has been criticised, President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF often retorts; it cannot be condemned for its abuses because it actually brought respect of human rights and democracy in the first place at Independence in 1980. Zanu PF officials say Mugabe's regime has done well in other areas, including education, health and land redistribution, ...
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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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