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Bulawayo Set to Feature in Northern Rugby League

The Shebeen (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008

BULAWAYO are expected to feature in the Northern Rugby League starting from this weekend in what looks like the first step in trying to revive the...

Bulawayo Set to Feature in Northern Rugby League

All Africa (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008

BULAWAYO are expected to feature in the Northern Rugby League starting from this weekend in what looks like the first step in trying to revive the now defunct National League.

No Foreign Currency, No Food

All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday

A R100 (US$13) remittance from a relative living in South Africa was a lifeline to food for Lydia Nxumalo, 36, and her family in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city.

Money, money, money

The Belmont Club (Free subscription) | yesterday

Who says socialism doesn’t work? The country that has produced the most trillionaires in history isn’t America, but Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. The Wall Street Journal describes what it is like to dine. “Buying anything is a ‘bizarre experience,’ said Lucy Chimtengwende from Bulawayo, who spent $12 U.S. on lunch recently, with the bill in local [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my...

ZIMBABWE: Foreign currency replacing Zimbabwe's dollar

Alertnet (Free subscription) | yesterday

Source: IRIN A R100 (US$13) remittance from a relative living in South Africa was a lifeline to food for Lydia Nxumalo, 36, and her family in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city.

• No Foreign Currency, No Food - All Africa

Zimbabwe: Archbishop Pius Ncube Announces Plans to Return

All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday

The former Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo and foremost critic of President Robert Mugabe, Pius Ncube, plans to return to his country to be with his Christians "even if it means death", he said at the weekend.

Investment Proposal

Free Nokia 8801 (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008

MRS. EVELYN DIRMA Johannesburg, South Africa. FAX: 0027739404409 Email: mrs.evelyndirma@gmail.com (Investment Proposal) Dear sir/madam, I am Mrs. Evelyn Dirma, wife of late Engineer Abraham Michael Dirma, of Bulawayo-Zimbabwe. I am now residing in South Africa as Asylum seeker (Refugee). In April 2007: my late husband's was among the few blacks that were opposed to the arbitrary rule of President...

Voter in Trouble for Anti-Mugabe Rap on Ballot Paper

Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008

BULAWAYO – A Zimbabwean voter who vented his anger at last week’s discredited presidential run-off election by spoiling his ballot paper with insulting remarks against President Robert Mugabe was yesterday charged with violating the Electoral Act. The run-off election in which Mugabe was sole candidate after opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out because of political violence was roundly...

Zimbabwe: Too early for forgiving

YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008

Martin Gurajena*, like many other opposition activists forced to flee Zimbabwe's ongoing political violence, has a difficult choice to make: when will it be safe to go home? Gurajena, 48, his wife and four children, are among 20 families being sheltered by a church in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city. The militia of Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party - young men with a reputation for brutality -...

• Too Early for Forgiving - All Africa
• ZIMBABWE: Too early for forgiving - Alertnet

Africa won't join church split

Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008

... about sexuality, but not really [so]."Frisk's position was echoed by Wilson Sichebo, the bishop of Bulawayo, who said his parish remains loyal to the mother church headquartered in Canterbury. Sichebo, who is also the president of the Zimbabwe Council of Churches, said that what is sad about the whole affair is that the split is not caused by differences in doctrine, but by what he called...

Robert Mugabe uses food as weapon as famine looms

Times Online (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008

... according to the Health Ministry and the UN. A similar percentage of children suffer stunting. In Bulawayo, cases of malnutrition in hospitals have increased 110 per cent in two months. Related LinksRural stocks of food will start running out in August, according to the FAO, when more than two million will have to be fed or face starvation. By January the number will have risen to 5.1 million....

Mayor of Nice says Brangelina twins can be French citizens if they choose

International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008

... a compliment to Nice that the American couple chose the city for the birth. > Latest NewsPhilimon Bulawayo/ReutersThe proposal before the Security Council includes an arms embargo and punitive measures against 14 people the U.S. deemed most responsible for undermining the presidential election through violence.In Opinion:More Headlines

Illegal Garbage Dumping Causes Rodent Explosion

All Africa (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008

THE city of Bulawayo is reportedly experiencing a rodent population explosion as a result of illegal dumping of garbage.

Ballots Spoiled in Protest

All Africa (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008

... 19 438, Manicaland 17 525, Mashonaland West 10 821, Matabeleland North 9 907 and Masvingo 9 740.Bulawayo recorded 9 166 spoilt ballots, Mashonaland East 7 675, Matabeleland south 7 353 and Mashonaland Central the lowest 3 409.The protest was also seen in the drastic drop in Tsvangirai's votes in some of the provinces in which he performed well in the March election.In Mashonaland West, Tsvangirai...

'Living in a city under siege'

The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008

Top Story »'Living in a city under siege'Supporters of Robert Mugabe in Chitungwiza, where the militias have imposed curfews. Photograph: Philimon Bulawayo/ReutersMugabe seems intent on starting his last war - one against his own people, writes Walter Marwizi in Harare.SOUND SLEEP is nearly impossible in my suburb these days.For the past three weeks, young people have been singing all night...