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/ 5 September 2003
President Robert Mugabe’s attempts to muzzle the press received a temporary setback on Wednesday when Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court struck down key sections of a law that makes it a criminal offence to publish ”falsehoods”.
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/ 5 September 2003
Zanu-PF conceded this week that the opposition’s gains in the recent municipal elections had given it ”a rude wake-up call”. Information Minister Jonathan Moyo, speaking for Zanu-PF, said the MDC’s victory in most of the contested towns was sobering and the party needed to examine the reasons for its losses.
The Zimbabwean government last week said that it would take control of the distribution of food aid, provoking suspicion that it will be channelled Zanu-PF supporters to help secure their votes in the forthcoming local elections.
Once hailed as the pride of Africa, Zimbabwe’s education system has been engulfed from top to bottom by the country’s deepening political and economic crisis.
Night visits to my home by threatening men in vans with blacked out windows. Attacks vilifying me in the state press as a ”terrorist”, an ”agent of imperialism” and ”a liar”. Threats, by phone, email and conversations with ”friends”, in which I was told that I would not be safe in this country.
‘He’ll never silence me’
Zimbabwe’s main opposition party celebrated crucial by-election victories in the capital on Monday, billing them as a springboard for mass action to topple President Robert Mugabe.
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/ 20 January 2003
When Robert Mugabe boarded a plane for an extended holiday in Thailand a fortnight ago it probably did not occur to him that by the time he returned his hold on power would be in question. He seemed so firmly entrenched as president of Zimbabwe.
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/ 19 January 2003
State torture and unwarranted arrests have increased dramatically in Zimbabwe in the past week, highlighting a drastic decline in the country’s security that could force the International Cricket Council to re-think the six World Cup matches planned for next month.
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/ 25 November 2002
The diplomatic dispute between the United States and Zimbabwe has escalated after an employee of the US embassy in Harare was beaten by war veterans loyal to President Robert Mugabe.
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/ 11 November 2002
The United States government warned this week that it might take ”intrusive, interventionist measures” to deliver food aid directly to millions of famine-hit Zimbabweans if President Robert Mugabe continues to starve his political opponents.