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/ 20 September 2005
Sales of Zimbabwe’s major export, Virginia flue-cured tobacco, officially closed on Tuesday after fetching about -million (about R661-million) on a crop that was just a fraction of what was harvested before the seizure of 5Â 000 white-owned commercial farms.
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/ 15 September 2005
Zimbabwe plans to import four endangered Siberian tigers from China for the country’s national park, a project condemned by wildlife experts as potentially cruel and dangerous. Minister of the Environment Francis Nhema said the tigers were in return for Zimbabwe giving China breeding animals such as zebra, elephants and impala.
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/ 9 September 2005
Zimbabwe’s Central Bank Governor, Gideon Gono, was in Washington on Friday lobbying members of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) board not to recommend the expulsion of Zimbabwe, state radio reported. Gono met eight members of the IMF board to make a case for Zimbabwe’s continued membership.
President Robert Mugabe lashed out on Sunday at church leaders who have been among the most outspoken critics of Zimbabwe’s human rights record. Addressing the funeral of Josiah Tungamirai, Mugabe recalled that the Cabinet minister and retired air force commander had quit a Catholic seminary to join the fight against white rule in what was then Rhodesia.
Josiah Tungamirai, Minister for Black Empowerment and Indigenisation in Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government, has died while receiving treatment at a clinic in South Africa, state radio announced on Friday. Family members said the retired Air Force of Zimbabwe commander had been having problems with the rejection of a kidney transplant.
Josiah Tungamirai, Minister for Black Empowerment and Indigenisation in Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government, has died while receiving treatment at a clinic in South Africa, state radio announced on Friday. Family members said the retired Air Force of Zimbabwe commander had been having problems with the rejection of a kidney transplant.
A slate of amendments that critics warn will seriously reduce constitutional protections and freedoms in Zimbabwe cleared a first vote in Parliament on Wednesday. After a stormy debate, lawmakers voted 61 to 28 to approve the Constitutional Amendment Bill.
An Anglican bishop who is a strong supporter of autocratic President Robert Mugabe has been brought before an ecclesiastical court investigating charges ranging from inciting murder to besmirching the church. On Tuesday, Jeremy Lewis, acting as prosecutor, postponed pursuing the most serious incitement-to-murder charge.
Ruling-party legislators in Zimbabwe are pushing constitutional amendments critics say will strengthen President Robert Mugabe. A Bill before Parliament will establish a 40-seat Senate, strip land owners of all rights of appeal if their property is seized and allow the government to deny its critics passports, lawyers say.
The Zimbabwean government has again refused to license one of the country’s only independent daily newspapers, which has been banned from publishing for more than two years, the state-owned Herald newspaper reported on Tuesday.