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IN a move with damaging implications for investment, Zimbabwe plans to grab a 51% stake in foreign-owned firms within 60 days of the gazetting of the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act regulations, documents in the possession of the Zimbabwe...
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African media leaders ended their meeting in Lagos yesterday with a call on owners and operators of media organisations to embrace the digital revolution for seamless...
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The reigning Miss England has relinquished her crown after being accused of a fight in a bar.
Pageant organizers say Rachel Christie has also withdrawn from next...
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SOMALI pirates have threatened to kill three crew members taken hostage from a Spanish fishing vessel if two suspected pirates being held in Spain are not freed, the...
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A RUSSIAN military plane crashed into the sea during a training exercise in Russia’s Far East region, leaving all eleven crew members missing and presumed dead,...
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The Democratic Republic of Congo army has used vaccination clinics as “bait” to attack civilians, says aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
Thousands...
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A SOUTH Korean woman has passed a written exam for a driver’s licence after 950 attempts.
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Kenyans have rarely been disappointed in the ability of their political leaders to be disappointing. So it’s not all that surprising that little has been done for...
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The UN’s nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the...
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I vividly recall the car journeys I would take as a teenager from Frankfurt to Berlin. In those days, the trip to the isolated city of West Berlin, which was located in...
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There was apparently not quite as much fun and games being played as expected by organizers at last year’s Beijing Olympics with news breaking that a stash of...
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When the U.S. last week finally brokered a deal between ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and the man who replaced him following the June 28 coup, de facto...
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The naming of an honorary economic advisor to a small Southeast Asian country doesn’t usually make news. But Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s designation...
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While domestic insurgencies chip away at the control of Yemen’s central government and an Al Qaeda branch gains strength in regions beyond the government’s...
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Thousands had gathered under the shade of the trees by the airstrip in Akobo, waiting for the arrival of a United Nations helicopter packed with food aid.
Bony-armed...
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It is unclear from a story, whether this cabbie was this time a next “Indian student” victim of desperately seeking a place for morning sex-session, but attitude of...
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Sir, I represent the self employed urban middle class from services sector. I Have spent the 50 odd years of my existence in this country. Now when my descent has...
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The U.S. media will not notice and the U.S. government does not care - nor, in the case of the latter, should it. But Saudi Arabia - which is often outrageously...
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The annual pilgrimage to Mecca recently took place. Muslims are required - as part of the Five Pillars - to do the Hajj, as it is known, once in their life if health...
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Targeted killing in Baluchistan continues as a Professor of the University of Balochistan was shot dead outside his residence in Quetta on Thursday, November 05, 2009. ...
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According to the definition of Wikipedia, “a civil war is a war between factions of citizens of one country (such as in the English Civil War), or else a dispute...
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Mugabe has ruled (?) Zimbabwe for almost thirty years and he considers himself the ‘elder statesman’ of Africa. He believes that he is untouchable and should be...
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So the Southern African Development Conference (SADC) has decided to hold a summit in Maputu on Zimbabwe on Thursday>.
Aren’t we getting a little bit sick of...
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I read this morning that Mugabe has reverted to type and labelled the MDC as an ‘untrustworthy’ partner in the power-sharing government.
“We must no longer...
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Arrogance - “overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors”
Ignorance - “the lack of knowledge or education”
Mugabe is a...
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So Mugabe is showing his true colours again… It’s almost a daily occurrence - but it doesn’t change his attitude, or his intent to sell his lies to the free...
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Speaking with a friend on the telephone the other night, we discussed just how difficult it is to maintain a stand against Mugabe’s brutish rule in Zimbabwe – and...
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Hardliners in Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party are trying to split the country’s unity government, says senior official Arthur...
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ZANU PF comes in all shapes and sizes. There are a variety of different bodies that masquerade as one thing, but are, in reality, ZANU PF institutions, bodies and...
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Mugabe and his cohorts do not know when it is time to stop anything.
Not that long ago there was the huge furore about Nestle buying milk in huge quantities from...
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Following the re-arrest of the Deputy Minister for Agriculture-designate, Roy Bennett, on an indictment for banditry last week, the larger Movement for Democratic...
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I have been writing about Zimbabwe/Mugabe for almost six years now – and I would hate to know how many hours I have spent in research, or how many words I have...
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I had an interesting chat on Skype with a good friend who is also very interested in the situation in Zimbabwe.
Friend: Is Mugabe going to do a go-it-alone?
Me: Looks...
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Following the return to prison of Deputy Minister for Agriculture designate, Roy Bennett, the MDC top brass headed into a caucus to decide their future in Zimbabwean...
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I was deeply saddened late yesterday afternoon when I learned that Mugabe’s legal gurus had played their trump card, indicted Bennett on banditry and terrorism...
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This article was dated yesterday, so the trial begins today.
“The trial of MDC national treasurer and deputy Agriculture Minister designate, Senator Roy Bennett...
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When I read on the internet yesterday that Mugabe’s political party, ZANU PF, was to turn their backs on persons named in a civil suit by former radio broadcaster,...
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I could probably wrote at least a couple of thousand words on this very subject - but today I want to look at the periphery of Mugabe’s kingdom, and how he uses these...
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Writing about Zimbabwe every day can be most educational - especially when, in the last few years, I have learned more about mathematics than I did in all my years at...
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