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The Southern African Development Conference (SADC) set a 15 days deadline for Mugabe.s ZANU PF, Tsvangirai’s MDC-T and Mutambara’s MDC-M to begin negotiations to resolve the outstanding issues within the so-called Unity Government in...
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Whenever the crisis in Zimbabwe looks to be in danger of collapsing the fragile unity government, the principals call on SADC - who invite them all to a...
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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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Each day, when I read through dozens of articles on the internet in an attempt to filter out those that I wish to highlight on my main page, “The Bearded...
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Not only has SADC not reacted to the withdrawal of Zimbabwe from the authority of the SADC tribunal, but the just finished SADC conference in the DRC managed to...
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Agreement: “The statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises.”
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A Zimbabwean opposition supporter calls for President Robert Mugabe to step down from office, at a SADC extraordinary summit in Johannesburg, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008. Mugabe’s peers are losing patience, the top negotiator for the Zimbabwe opposition says...
