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/ 21 February 2007
Zimbabwe’s state-run media lavished praise on veteran President Robert Mugabe on the 83rd birthday of Africa’s oldest-serving leader on Wednesday while stores in the capital, Harare, ran out of bread. ”President an unparalleled visionary,” read the headline of the Herald newspaper.
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/ 19 February 2007
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai vowed on Monday to step up the campaign to topple President Robert Mugabe despite a riot-police crackdown that prevented him from holding a major weekend rally. Scores were hurt and about 130 arrested on Sunday as security services used tear gas to break up a gathering of Movement for Democratic Change supporters.
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/ 4 February 2007
The empty chairs in the classroom at Hatcliffe, a township north of the Zimbabwean capital Harare, are a familiar sight in many schools in the economically-blighted country. A few weeks after schools opened for the year’s first term, six pupils in a class of 34 had not shown up and schoolteacher Aaron Maturure was beginning to worry.
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/ 10 January 2007
The doctor at the Parirenyatwa hospital shakes his head in despair as he issues his diagnosis of Zimbabwe’s health service: ”The system has literally collapsed and we are losing lives unnecessarily.” Once renowned throughout Southern Africa for its standards of treatment, the collapse of the health service has mirrored the financial crisis in Zimbabwe.
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/ 18 December 2006
Zimbabwe’s opposition and rights groups vowed on Monday to stage mass street protests against plans by President Robert Mugabe’s supporters to extend the veteran ruler’s term by another two years. The ruling Zimbabwe African National Union — Patriotic Front has proposed that 82-year-old Mugabe’s term be extended to 2010 by postponing presidential elections.
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/ 15 December 2006
Robert Mugabe dodged speculation on Friday about an extension to his presidency in an address to Zimbabwe’s ruling party after warning potential successors there is no vacancy at the top. The 82-year-old, in power since Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain in 1980, instead used his annual speech to Zanu-PF delegates to lambaste the one-time colonial masters.
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/ 12 November 2006
The establishment of a new government watchdog to monitor prices and incomes in Zimbabwe is only likely to further accelerate the country’s runaway inflation rate, according to analysts. Officials say a Bill is to be tabled in Parliament shortly for the creation of a prices and incomes commission in a country where the level of inflation crossed the 1 000% mark six months ago and now stands at 1 070%.
Zimbabwean authorities have once again locked horns with the country’s independent media after a state watchdog accused the journalists’ union of disseminating propaganda against President Robert Mugabe’s regime. The complaint was filed against the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists days after a case against an independent radio station was thrown out of court.
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/ 13 September 2006
Opponents of veteran Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe abandoned plans on Wednesday for a series of anti-government protests after the organisers were arrested in a police crackdown. The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions had hoped thousands of protesters would take to the streets in nationwide rallies to denounce fuel and food shortages.
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/ 13 September 2006
Authorities in Zimbabwe staged a massive security operation on Wednesday in a bid to head off a series of banned protests against the economic crisis presided over by veteran President Robert Mugabe. Armed police fanned out across the capital, Harare, conducting body searches and spot checks of cars in scenes repeated in other major towns and cities throughout the country.