Archive for June, 2009
Tsvangirai performing well in interviews
By Diana Mitchell TELEGENIC, ARTICULATE BUT NOT WHOLLY UNDERSTOOD That Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is currently Zimbabwe’s best hope for an end to its glaring problems is not generally doubted. What is still in the realms of wishful thinking is that the ordinary folk should experience the extraordinary turnaround that Morgan himself has recently experienced. [...]
ZANU-PF Communiqué Vindicates Madhuku
By Dewa Mavhinga Despite indications to the contrary by MDC in government, on the 17th of June 2009 ZANU – PF politburo in Harare issued a communiqué endorsing the so-called Kariba Draft Constitution as the basis of consultations on the new constitution-making process. The position taken by ZANU-PF is the clearest indication yet, that the [...]
Tendai 'the Beast' Mtawarira mauls Lions
By Nick Metcalfe On a memorable afternoon in Durban, when a few rugby reputations took a battering, one man’s stock rose considerably. South Africa’s, Zimbabwe-born prop Tendai ‘the Beast’ Mtawarira gave the Lions, and particularly Phil Vickery, an absolute mauling in the first Test. Mtawarira has been known as a largely a passive scrummager in [...]
Spat looms over PM newsletter
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s information ministry says it is investigating whether a newsletter published by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s office is legal. The state Sunday Mail newspaper, a mouthpiece of President Robert Mugabe’s party, says the four-page publication set Tsvangirai on a “collision course” with government colleagues. The newsletter contains details of Tsvangirai’s current [...]
MDC senator Patrick Kombayi dies in Gweru
By Never Kadungure (political editor) Veteran politician and MDC senator for Chirumhanzu-Gweru Patrick Kombayi has died at his Gweru home on Sunday. The burly businessman survived an assassination attempt in 1990 when the late Vice President Simon Muzenda tried to stop him campaigning against him. Kombayi was at the time the National Organising Secretary of [...]
Tsvangirai booed by exiles in London
By Fortune Tazvida Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was booed during a speech to exiles in London after he urged them to come back home and rebuild the country. The message did not go well with the 1000 plus crowd in the Anglican Cathedral in Southwark who felt it was still not safe to go back [...]
Minister’s husband attacked at home
By Violet Gonda Orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Chris Mushonga, the husband of Minister Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, has been hospitalised after he was savagely attacked by armed robbers in his home on Thursday night. Misihairabwi-Mushonga is the Minister of Regional Integration and International Co-operation and currently part of the high level delegation of government ministers travelling with Prime [...]
Miracle recovery of 'amazing Grace'
A baby suffering from “incurable” meningitis made a miraculous recovery after her life-support machine was switched off, her mother has revealed. Grace Vincent was just six weeks old when she was struck down with a rare form of the brain disease and rushed to hospital, where she spent four days in intensive care before her [...]




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