White Farmers Relocate to Nigeria
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Zimbabwe was once considered southern Africa's bread-basket until Presidents Mugabe's controversial land reforms gave white-owned farms to landless blacks.
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Namibia: Elections Reveal Worst-Case Scenario About Tribalism And Race
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
FIFTEEN political parties will contest the forthcoming Presidential and National Assembly elections. Of these fifteen, the overwhelming majority of them can't claim to have a constituency that is broadly a reflection of the diversity of our Republic.
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The Casablanca Connection
Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Joshua Nkomo of ZAPU and Robert Mugabe of ZANU, leaders of the Zimbabwe liberation struggle. This photo was taken during the revolutionary war to liberate ZImbabwe during the 1970s. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos The Casablanca connection Courtesy of the Zimbabwe Herald IN 1978 Abel Muzorewa and Ndabaningi Sithole signed an agreement with Ian Smith to extirpate on the people...
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Zimbabwe: Consultation Period On Constitution Cut
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
PUBLIC consultations on the crafting of a new constitution are now expected to start in January, with a referendum pencilled in for September -- cutting by nine months the timeframe for the constitution-making process set out in the Global Political Agreement. Co-chairperson of the parliamentary select committee on the constitution-making process, Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana, yesterday said the public...
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Zimbabwe: MDC-M Detractors Will Fail to Destroy the Party
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
THE Arthur Mutambara-led Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-M) is scaling greater heights despite the hostile efforts of chequebook scribes. The MDC is an institution with resources and the capacity to deal with political problems within the party. I am pleased to say that the Mutambara of yesteryear is different from the Mutambara of today.
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Zimbabwe: Abuse of Tsvangirai GPA Outstanding Issue
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
ANY chief executive dreads the day when immediate subordinates and staff become persistently annoying, especially with the tacit direction and blessing of the board. When internally generated executive abuse becomes visible to shareholders, striking at the heart of patience and motivation, it is folly for a model principal to remain silent in the forlorn hope that tomorrow shall sort itself out.
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Zimbabwe: Kudos to Rights Issue Underwriters
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
AFTER nearly 10 months of serenity in the economy some businesses have shifted a gear up from focusing on revival to engaging in expansion. The economic environment has indeed improved somewhat with the next day promising to be better than today. This time last year the economy was expected to be much worse the following day.
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Zimbabwe: Country's Corruption Wanes
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
ZIMBABWE recorded the biggest jump of the 180 countries surveyed by Transparency International (IT) this year being ranked as the 34th most corrupt nation from the number 14 it was positioned last year, indicating a slight lessening of corruption. TI said Zimbabwe was still ranked in a worrying position due to the breakdown of formal procedures and structures at most institutions that are operating...
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Zimbabwe: Retailers Hope for Better Christmas
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
TILLS are not ringing as fast as retailer and departmental stores would want them to but they have not entirely lost heart yet. Shop managers believe although sales are getting better, it is a bit too early to tell whether consumers will be shaking their wallets this season.
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Zimbabwe: Bank Deposits Up a Transitory 44 Percent
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
BANK deposits went up to US$1, 016 billion from US$706 million between June and October, an increase of 44%. The increase in bank deposits within the four months was merely transitory, thus the funds could not be used as long-term loans.
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Zimbabwe: Gold's Lustre Irresistible
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
GLITTERING gold prices have proved irresistible for the local producers as they have responded by increasing production and speeding up exploration work.
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South Africa: Committee Positive of 2010 Preparations
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) tasked to oversee government's preparation for the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup has expressed satisfaction at the progress made ahead of the tournament.
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South Africa: Police Need Help Finding Toddler
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Eighteen-month-old Marathino Christiaan Ohlssom was left to sleep alone in a house tucked away in a vineyard on a Worcester farm one Friday morning, while his great grandmother fetched pepper from a neighbour.
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Angola: Angola Seeks UN Aid to Repatriate 60,000 Nationals From DR Congo
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Angola has requested the re-activation of a tripartite mechanism with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the United Nations refugee agency to repatriate some 60,000 Angolans still in DRC in the wake of the mutual expulsion of scores of thousands of each other's nationals by the neighbouring States.
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Southern African Regional Climate Change Programme
sustainable options (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Africa is expected to bear the brunt of climatic changes (see earlier blogpost The IPCC on Climate Change in Africa ). Now there is a new regional Southern African programme to deal with the effects of climate change on the largely poor and malnourished populations in this often forgotten part of the world. With so much anxiety on the success of the Copenhagen talks , this rings at least as a step...
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Marula Oil and the Fight Against Poverty in Rural Swaziland
Eileen Murphy | 22/04/2009
Generations of African rural communities have used locally grown plant extracts and oils for nutritional, medicinal and cosmetic purposes. One such plant product is marula oil, which is extracted from the fruit kernels of the marula tree, native to southern Africa. Previously unheard of outside of Africa, the oil is becoming increasingly popular because of its superb antioxidant, nourishing and moisturising
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Might SERRV be interested in exploring this?