The Independent (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
The Government has been forced to scour Northern Rock's records for details of its dealings with Zimbabwe after it emerged that the newly nationalised bank had been touting for business in Robert Mugabe's pariah state.
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
South Africa's Thabo Mbeki holds talks in Zimbabwe with President Mugabe and leaders of a breakaway opposition faction.
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
South Africa's Thabo Mbeki is in Zimbabwe, reportedly to meet President Mugabe and dissident opposition members.
Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | yesterday
South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki has held an unexpected meeting in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare with President Robert Mugabe and Arthur Mutambara, leader of the breakaway faction of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. Mbeki is the chief SADC mediator in the Zimbabwe crisis, but he's been rejected by the main MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai. This week's African Union summit resolved that...
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Source: IRIN The flower seller booths on Unity Square in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, are now the haunt of money changers, because this is one of the few commercial activities in the country still experiencing any kind of growth.
i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The flower seller booths on Unity Square in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, are now the haunt of money changers, because this is one of the few commercial activities in the country still experiencing any kind of growth. Cosmos, 24, fell into the business a few years ago while working at a bar, where he changed some local money for foreign tourists who had US dollars, or "green leaf" as he calls it....
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
HARARE, Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe summoned his top security officials to a training center in central Zimbabwe on the afternoon of March 30. In a voice barely audible at first, he informed the leaders of the state security apparatus that had enforced his rule for 28 years that he had lost the presidential vote held the previous day.
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
If you've been following the sad news in Zimbabwe, you will hear the irony in the name of its capital city, Harare. In the language of the Shona people. It means "One who does not sleep." When I slipped into Zimbabwe a few years ago as a board member of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, I slept restlessly out of fear of being arrested. President Robert Mugabe had shut the door on...
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | yesterday
DPA Johannesburg, July 6 (DPA) Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai appeared marginalized Saturday after South African President Thabo Mbeki held talks in Harare with President Robert Mugabe and members of a smaller faction of Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). The meeting was confirmed by Mbeki’s spokesman Mukoni Ratshitanga. “President Mbeki did meet with President Mugabe,”...
Palapye.com News Blog (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
source: Reuters UK By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) - South African President Thabo Mbeki met Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Saturday to try to help end a political crisis, his spokesman said. The main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party said its leader Morgan Tsvangirai had declined to meet Mbeki, who has tried to mediate between the [...]
Afrigator (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) - South African President Thabo Mbeki met Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Saturday to try to help end a political crisis, his spokesman said. The main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party said its leader Morgan Tsvangirai had declined to meet Mbeki, who has tried to mediate between the two sides after Mugabe’s disputed re-election on June...
Get Mash (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
HARARE, Zimbabwe — President Robert Mugabe summoned his top security officials to a government training center near his rural home in central Zimbabwe on the afternoon of March 30. In a voice barely audible at first, he informed the leaders of the state security apparatus that had enforced his rule… Read the full story
France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
In his role as chief regional negotiator on the Zimbabwean crisis, Thabo Mbeki met with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe during a trip to Harare. But opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai declined to meet the South African leader.
ireland.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
South African President Thabo Mbeki met Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in Harare today to try to help end the political crisis in Zimbabwe.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai appeared marginalized Saturday after South African President Thabo Mbeki held talks in Harare with President Robert Mugabe and members of a smaller faction of Tsvangirai's Movement for Dem...
