MDC takes the plunge

Zimbabwe's opposition MDC decided on Friday to enter a unity government with Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF, an opposition party official said.

Zim cholera fears grow as rains peak

Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic could get worse as the rainy season peaks, its health minister said on Monday.

Mugabe 'set to form govt in February'

Zanu-PF leader starts preparations for a new administration, the state-run Herald newspaper reports

SA rocked by resignation of ministers

Finance Minister Trevor Manuel is among 11 Cabinet ministers and three deputy ministers who have resigned.

SA arms flow to Zimbabwe

South Africa has been supplying Zimbabwe with helicopters, revolvers and cartridges -- despite the mounting human rights atrocities in that country.

It is time for a change of govt

In politics, as in life, chickens usually come home to roost. Fourteen years of failure in leadership and management at the Department of Home Affairs. Nine years of self-indulgent denialism in the Presidency. Six months of Umshini Wami and the violence and human rights promiscuity it implies -- not to mention the failure in intelligence.

Ship with arms for Zim leaves Durban after court ruling

A ship that was carrying weapons and ammunition destined for Zimbabwe lifted anchor and sailed from Durban less than an hour after the Durban High Court ordered that its controversial cargo cannot be transported across South Africa to that country.

Zille: Don't give Chinese arms to Zim

Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille on Friday urged President Thabo Mbeki and national conventional arms-control committee chairperson Sydney Mufamadi to stop the transfer of arms aboard a ship, the An Yue Jiang, in Durban harbour to Zimbabwe. The ship has been at anchor off the port of Durban since Monday.

No dead end yet in Zim, say SA facilitators

While anxiety due to the delay in the announcement of Zimbabwe's presidential election results is shared, the process has not reached a dead end, the South African facilitation team said on Tuesday. "The anxiety about the delay is certainly legitimate," said Minister of Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi.

SA govt asks: Where are Zim vote results?

South Africa will work with other countries in the region to ensure the will of the Zimbabwean people is reflected, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad said on Thursday. The country has joined the chorus of international calls for Zimbabwe to release the results of its March 29 presidential election as soon as possible.

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