Banda, Mugabe to Launch Chirundu One-Stop Border
All Africa (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda and his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe will officially launch the Chirundu One Stop Border Post (OSBP) on Saturday.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda and his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe will officially launch the Chirundu One Stop Border Post (OSBP) on Saturday.
France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
A new team of South African mediators have held their first talks with Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe in a fresh bid to ease tensions within the strained unity government, state media reported Tuesday. "President Robert Mugabe yesterday met the visiting South African mediation team," the state owned Herald said. The mediators -- including South African President Jacob Zuma's foreign policy...
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
A new team of SA mediators has held its first talks with Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe in a fresh bid to ease tensions within the unity government.
IOL (Free subscription) | yesterday
A new team of South African mediators have held their first talks with Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, state media has reported.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
HUMAN rights groups in Zimbabwe have condemned world football's governing body Fifa for allowing Robert Mugabe to hold the World Cup trophy as it passed through Zimbabwe. The trophy is on a tour of all 53 African countries ahead of next year's football showpiece in neighbouring South Africa. But activists in Zimbabwe criticised Fifa for handing a propaganda coup to a leader blamed for atrocities and...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Human rights groups in Zimbabwe have lashed out at football's world governing body, FIFA, for allowing Robert Mugabe to hold the FIFA World Cup trophy as it passed through Zimbabwe on Thursday.
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | yesterday
The founder of the libertarian Coalition for Liberal Market Solutions (Zimbabwe) is worried that neighboring South Africa's ruling African National Congress is veering toward policies long favored by Zimbabwean ruler Robert Mugabe: "Themba [sic] Nolutshungu’s compelling evidence of the genetic relationship between Communism and Apartheid is ground breaking. He should know better, for he...
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Another excuse to pass round the begging bowl Mugabe blasts 'neo-colonialist enemies' HAT TIP: BLACK COFFEE Zimbabwe's "neo-colonialist enemies" want its farmers to fail in order to damn the country's land reforms, President Robert Mugabe charged at the United Nations Hunger Summit on Tuesday. "We face very hostile interventions by ... states which have imposed unilateral sanctions...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono on Friday said the reintroduction of the Zimbabwe dollar is still a long way off, ending speculation the battered currency is on its way back. Over the past weeks, speculation has intensified that some sections of the inclusive government were preparing for the return of the reviled currency after President Robert Mugabe recently told villagers in...
The Bearded Man (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- Okay, from tomorrow through Friday, postings on this page will be irregular and could be rather sparse. This is because I am on a four day course. Thank for understanding. Yesterday I also wrote about one of my hard drives going on strike. Well - with the use of a freeware programme, I was able to recover the vast majority, if not all of my pictures....
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
From Shadow Government/Foreign Policy: Ordinarily, it’s easy to dismiss the rhetoric of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez as just so much bombast meant to sate the appetites of his most radical followers. Witness, for example, his recently expressed admiration for Carlos the Jackal, Robert Mugabe, and, yes, Idi Amin. Other times, however, Chávez wanders into territory of strategic...
Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
HARARE (Reuters) - A lack of cash is likely to prevent Zimbabwe unveiling any major projects in its 2010 budget, but analysts say it could provide the impetus for the reforms needed to attract foreign aid to rebuild the economy. Finance Minister Tendai Biti is due to present his 2010 budget on Wednesday -- the first full budget by the unity government formed 10 months ago to try to end a decade-long...
to herd or not to herd (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
The only kind of gold standard that will work: It's controlled by the consumer instead of any central authority. Zimbabwe is now debt free, in fact it's probably the only country in the world to have no debts and is starting with a clean slate. This is because the Central Bank is no longer functioning, the local currency can no longer be produced at will and the politicians, led by the reviled Robert...
Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
In recent weeks , Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened war with Columbia, promised to personally fly on planes to "zap" clouds to make them rain, urged citizens to stop singing in the shower, said complimentary things about Idi Amin, Carlos the Jackal and Robert Mugabe, and had a warm reception with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad where he labeled Israel "a murderous arm of the Yankee...
Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
A South African government handout photo shows Southern African Development Community (SADC) chairman, South African President Jacob Zuma (L), hugging Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on June 20, 2009 in Johannesburg. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos Zim, SA sign investment agreement By Walter Muchinguri Zimbabwe Herald Zimbabwe and South Africa yesterday signed the much-awaited...