Zimbabwean General Solomon Mujuru died in suspicious circumstances in August 2011. This is an edited extract from his recently published biography by Blessing-Miles Tendi
Zimbabwe’s electoral commission is completely unprepared for the upcoming referendum, say insiders.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Saturday urged the country’s political rivals to desist from violence ahead of elections yet to be decided on.
Zimbabwe’s fragile unity government has been dealt a blow by a leadership struggle within it smallest faction.
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/ 17 January 2011
Zimbabwe’s Welshman Ncube, who has taken over the leadership of the MDC faces the task of steering the party from Tsvangirai.
Zimbabwe’s deputy premier said on Thursday a team of top government officials was launching a probe into fresh seizures of white-owned farms.
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/ 1 February 2009
The Popular Cheap Shop, the Musina Cheap Price Shop and the Bargain Centre: the signboards in Musina don’t mince words. Or marketing themes.
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/ 26 January 2009
An emergency SADC summit to address the ongoing political impasse in Zimbabwe is expected to start at about 11am in Pretoria on Monday.
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/ 19 January 2009
Kgalema Motlanthe and Thabo Mbeki have arrived in Harare, Zimbabwe, to mediate talks later on Monday with the country’s political leaders.
Zimbabwe’s cholera epidemic could get worse as the rainy season peaks, its health minister said on Monday.
Zanu-PF leader starts preparations for a new administration, the state-run Herald newspaper reports
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has started preparations to form a government despite objections, firing a dozen ministers from his Zanu-PF party.
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/ 12 October 2008
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader has threatened to pull out of a power-sharing deal if Robert Mugabe moved ahead with plans to take key ministries.
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/ 15 September 2008
Zimbabwe’s new government will have six executive posts headed by President Robert Mugabe and prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
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/ 5 September 2008
Zimbabwe’s main opposition faction is prepared to sign a power-sharing deal provided that it is given the powerful Ministry of Home Affairs.
Zanu-PF leader Robert Mugabe has been pegged back in a week of setbacks, but is preparing to reverse his opponents’ gains in Parliament.
Zimbabwe’s government plans to convene Parliament next week despite deadlock in talks to end a post-election political crisis.
Zimbabwe’s opposition on Sunday said it is committed to reaching an agreement with President Robert Mugabe.
Southern African leaders were to gather in Johannesburg on Sunday for the final day of a summit overshadowed by Zimbabwe’s crisis.
The end is in sight for negotiations between Zimbabwe’s rival leaders, President Thabo Mbeki told the SADC summit in Johannesburg on Saturday.
The latest deadlock has highlighted the tensions in the MDC. Some senior members were keen for Tsvangirai to sign the deal already on the table.
Pressure mounted on Wednesday on Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader to agree to a power-sharing deal with President Robert Mugabe.
President Thabo Mbeki says Zimbabwean power-sharing talks have adjourned to allow the main opposition leader time to consider a deal.
Confusion reigned at the end of power-sharing talks for Zimbabwe amid reports of a deal between Robert Mugabe and a breakaway opposition leader.
President Robert Mugabe warned Zimbabwe’s opposition on Monday in an address to the nation not to be ”used by enemies”.
Following his meeting with refugees in South Africa, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said it was ”imperative” to find a solution to Zimbabwe.
The leader of a rebel faction of Zimbabwe’s main opposition party was freed on bail on Tuesday after his arrest over a written attack on President Robert Mugabe. A Harare court ordered Arthur Mutambara, head of a splinter faction of the Movement for Democratic Change, to pay Z-billion (about ) and report to police each Friday.
The Zimbabwean opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, has told President Thabo Mbeki that he is no longer fit to serve as the region’s mediator in Zimbabwe’s political crisis owing to a ”lack of neutrality”, and that ”there will be no country left” if Mbeki continues to side with President Robert Mugabe.
The leader of a rebel faction of Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change became the most senior opposition politician to be arrested when he was held on Sunday over a written attack on President Robert Mugabe. Arthur Mutambara was picked up at his home in Harare, his party and lawyer said.
The editor of an independent newspaper and a prominent human rights lawyer have been arrested, and Zimbabwe’s largest farm union said on Thursday that 40 000 farm workers have been displaced in post-election violence. Davison Maruziva, editor of the Standard newspaper, was taken by police from the newspaper’s offices on Thursday.
After a day of top level meetings, Zimbabwe’s main opposition party on Saturday failed to make a decision on whether it will take part in presidential run-off elections scheduled for next month. Observers now fear that there is a fierce dispute within the Movement for Democratic Change over whether to boycott the second round of voting that was announced on Friday.
A month after Zimbabweans took to the polls to pick a president, the outcome of the vote is still not in sight as the United Nations prepared on Tuesday to discuss the Zimbabwe impasse. Suggestions by the country’s electoral body that results of the March 29 presidential vote could be out later this week have been met with scepticism.