In the latest attack on the beleaguered Zimbabwean press, the editor of the independent newspaper The Standard and a reporter were arrested by police this week for a story on the murder of a mining magnate. With its latest attack on the free press, Zimbabwe’s state forces are setting out to destroy the last shreds of democracy before the elections next year.
The treason trial of Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai resumed in the Harare High Court this week amid reports that the governing Zanu-PF is already backtracking on talks driven by African leaders to solve the country’s political and economic crisis.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is finally cracking under relentless pressure by African leaders to meet opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and solve the economic and political crisis in the Southern African country, say experts.
The retirements — one after the other — of two of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s key civil servants during the past two weeks, are testimony to the fact that many of the mandarins at his Munhumutapa offices have seen that the writing is on the wall.
Public interest in the treason trial of Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, which held Zimbabweans spellbound when it began in February, has fizzled out, with only a handful of people now attending the daily court sessions at the high court in Harare
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/ 5 February 2003
Zimbabwean banks ran out of cash and supermarket shelves were emptied as panic that a new showdown between the government, the opposition and trade unions was looming gripped the Southern African country.
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/ 4 February 2003
Zimbabwe’s governing Zanu-PF party, upbeat that its charm offensive is starting to bear fruit, has told its combative ministers to tone down anti-Western rhetoric. French leader Jacques Chirac broke ranks with the rest of Europe to invite President Robert Mugabe to a summit in Paris later this month.
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/ 25 January 2003
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who will be visiting Zimbabwe in the next few weeks, might propose a plan to sanitise the governing Zanu-PF party by voluntarily getting rid of some of its most undesirable elements, diplomatic officials have said.
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/ 10 January 2003
A decorated former Rhodesian soldier is at the centre of an internationally backed plan to coax Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to meet with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, officials said this week. The plan also involves South Africa and Britain.
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/ 10 January 2003
It all started from the most unlikely source: supporters of President Robert Mugabe at the weekend besieged a supermarket and a grain depot to fire the first warning shots that Zimbabwe might be engulfed in serious food riots before Easter.