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Grace Mugabe with daughter Bona
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Grace Mugabe ‘hurts her back in the gym’

HARARE- First Lady Grace Mugabe on Friday moved to dispel reports that she is ill claiming she only hurt her back while exercising in the gym. She spoke while officially opening the Health, Fitness, Beauty and Fashion Expo in Harare.

Ms Locadia Tembo with her mother in-law at their Buhera home
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Tsvangirai ‘lover’ slept outside his house for 3 days

Locadia Tembo, the woman at the centre of the marriage storm with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, is alleged to have slept outside his Harare home in Strathaven for 3 days, in an apparent attempt to force him into marrying her.

Tsvangirai ‘tying the knot’ or tied in knots
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Tsvangirai ‘tying the knot’ or tied in knots

I don’t care what the nuances to the story are. The fact is something happened at the Tembo homestead, something involving the PM and muzvare Tembo, one Locadia. That’s good enough writes Nathaniel Manheru

Riot police in Chitungwiza on Sunday
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Mugabe lied about Chitungwiza violence

President Robert Mugabe ‘lied’ when he claimed that violence broke out in Chitungwiza because the MDC-T who were having a rally at the Chibuku Stadium on Sunday banned the police from providing protection for the event. Members of the notorious ZANU PF Chipangano gang attacked MDC-T supporters preparing for the rally.

Mugabe’s ailments include periodic convulsions and stroke like episodes (perhaps eschemia) brought on by diabetes and a lipid disorder which affects the covering of the brain
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Mugabe sneaks out of Zimbabwe

Confusion has gripped partners in the coalition circles following President Robert Mugabe’s decision to sneak out of the country without advising his cabinet colleagues on his intended destination and reasons for the trip. Mugabe sneaked out of the country on Monday morning amid indications that he had for the eighth time this year, flown to Singapore, where some of his doctors are based.

George Charamba, the spokesman for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe
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Charamba statement on Gukurahundi a grave insult

The unresolved issue of the Gukurahundi genocide of the 1980s remains as one of the hottest subjects in the land between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers, writes Sabelo Ngwenya a Mthwakazi activist based in South Africa.

Charamba claims Gukurahundi ‘a closed topic’
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Charamba claims Gukurahundi ‘a closed topic’

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s spokesperson George Charamba on Thursday said the emotive Gukurahundi issue is now water under the bridge amid reports of fresh mass graves being found at a primary school in Lupane. The graves are believed to contain bodies of victims of the 1980s massacres.

Jonathan Moyo (centre) and Robert Mugabe at a Politburo meeting (Pic ZimDaily.com)
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Mugabe reluctant to take action against Zanu PF Wiki-Leakers

President Robert Mugabe has uncharacteristically balked at taking action against senior Zanu PF officials exposed in secret United States diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks as clandestinely campaigning to remove him due to leadership failures, old age and ill-health.

US Ambassador Charles Ray meets Zimbabwean Dictator Robert Mugabe
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Charles Ray: White kisses through thick, dark lips

This week Charles Ray, America’s ambassador here, called on President Robert Mugabe at the President’s Munhumutapa Offices. It was a meeting so long in coming, one heralded by “shadow” meetings involving both bureaucrats and party officials writes Nathaniel Manheru.

Zimbabwe buys community radio equipment
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Zimbabwe buys community radio equipment

Although Zimbabwe has bought and taken delivery of community radio broadcasting equipment the TransMedia Corporation CEO Florence Sigudu-Matambo said installation of the transmitters, antennae and general hardware will only begin after BAZ has completed the licensing process.

Crumbling Mugabe power base fuelling ZANU PF infighting
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WikiLeaks exposes Mugabe’s failing health

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s failing health has been laid bare after he was spotted at a top private hospital in Singapore that specialises in cancer. New information from leaked US diplomatic cables shows the 87-year-old could have been receiving medical help for cancer at a major hospital in Singapore.

Government officials, relatives, friends and the local community look at the burnt house in which General Solomon Mujuru died at his farm in Beatrice yesterday
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Herald pulls the plug on Mujuru story

The state owned Herald newspaper was on Wednesday evening forced to remove, before publication, a story on the death of retired army General Solomon Mujuru. Sources who spoke to SW Radio Africa claimed editors at the paper were told to bin a story containing important details of what happened on the night Mujuru died.

Mugabe blows top over gay state journalist
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Mugabe blows top over gay state journalist

The assistant editor for H-Metro Robert Mukondiwa faces dismissal after being caught red-handed bonking a male hooker during a Presidential trip to Windhoek, Namibia. As is custom, it was Mukondiwa’s turn to accompany Robert Mugabe on his numerous international jaunts.

Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
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When will AIPPA and POSA be abolished?

The report that the Public Order and Security (POSA) Amendment Bill was shot down yesterday in the Senate by Zanu-PF Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa (Newsday, 04/08/11) made very sad reading. It sets a very bad precedent.

Hail MDC-T, The party of SEXcellence!
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Hail MDC-T, The party of SEXcellence!

It arguably, is one of the most jaw-dropping proposals to be made in the August House of an independent, moral and sane Zimbabwe. Yet some of our supposedly Honourable Members of Parliament had the guts to tell us: “Legalise prostitution”.