While getting his hair cut at a barber shop, a Zimbabwean activist was taken by five men – and has never been seen since.
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/ 7 December 2008
According to a union official, the attackers are now said to be prowling the Midlands area, kicking out the 400 remaining white farmers.
A South African law firm that acted as a conduit for information between a ”whistleblower” and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is instituting legal action against the central bank. It alleges the bank withheld its client’s payment after helping the police nab a high-profile businessman and political figure.
Zimbabwe’s Minister of Information, Jonathan Moyo, is suing Munn Marketing for Z$100-million (about R109 000) for allegedly distributing in Zimbabwe the <i>Sunday Times</i> of South Africa — a newspaper he is also suing for carrying an allegedly defamatory article. Moyo said the article insinuated that he does not care about the people of Matabeleland.
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/ 10 September 2004
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and the Legal Resources Foundation are contemplating a class action lawsuit to compel Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to publish findings of investigations into military atrocities against civilians in Matabeleland in the 1980s.
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/ 3 September 2004
President Robert Mugabe on Thursday finally accepted US ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell after negotiations with the US government. Mugabe had said Dell would not be welcome to Harare after the remarks which had been spun in the official press to look like demands for "regime change".
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/ 3 September 2004
Outspoken Bulawayo Archbishop Pius Ncube secretly met Prince Charles and briefed him about Zimbabwe’s deepening economic and social crisis at the royal’s London home. Archbishop Ncube, a fierce critic of Mugabe, told Prince Charles that Mugabe was slowly joining the elite squad of tragi-comic African dictators.
Controversy surrounding Zimbabwean Information Minister Jonathan Moyo’s purchase of the Patterson farm in the Mazowe district has deepened amid disclosures that he violated government policy and set a bad precedent for land reform. Moyo is also entangled in a row over the subdivision of a farm in Hwange where illegal poaching is reported to be rampant.
The Zimbabwean government has now set its sights on foreign newspapers circulating in Zimbabwe. Officials are making threatening noises about foreign publications, including the Mail & Guardian, which they deem to be hostile to the ruling establishment.