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JOHANNESBURG, 27 August 2009 (IRIN) - A suspected cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe's eastern province of Manicaland has proved a false alarm. About a dozen people reported suffering from cholera-like symptoms between 6 and 20 August in Chipinge…
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By Never Kadungure Self-styled war veteran Joseph Chinotimba brought the Harare Magistrates Court down with laughter after expressing his ‘hurt’ at temporarily losing his US$40 Nokia 2310 cellphone. During his evidence presentation on…
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Paul Mangwana - Zanu-PF Chivi Central legislator and co-chairman of the Constitutional Select Committee - has made the news.  I find this an astonishing article, my emphasis added, and more  via The Zimbabwe Times:  Parliament’s…
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CHIADZWA, 26 August 2009 (IRIN) - The militarization of Zimbabwe's diamond fields is still a fact of life, despite a report by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) - an international initiative to stem the flow of conflict…
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JOHANNESBURG — South African President Jacob Zuma will discuss what he sees as "deviant behaviour" in Zimbabwe, when he visits Harare this week for talks on the power-sharing government, his party said Wednesday. Gwede Mantashe, secretary…
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The trial of Thamsanqa Mahlangu, the Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment Deputy Minister and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) National Youth Chairman commenced on Wednesday 26 August 2009 at the Harare Magistrates Court.…
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Nokuthula Sibanda HARARE – Zimbabwe public doctors on Wednesday called off a two-week strike for more pay, responding to a call by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to return to work while the government scrounges around for funds to meet…
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By Cris Chinaka HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean officials dismissed a South African newspaper report that President Robert Mugabe was ill on Wednesday as rubbish and the product of "sick and evil minds." The Times newspaper had reported…
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Bulawayo- The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has banned all its female employees from wearing trousers or mini skits while at work.  According to a circular signed by Happison Muchechetere, ZBC Chief Executive officer, and placed…
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HARARE — A cabinet retreat by Zimbabwe's unity government collapsed this weekend as President Robert Mugabe's ministers walked out after the deputy prime minister said last year's polls were fraudulent. Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa…
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