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Sentenced to silence
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…
Tsvangirai back in the dock
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…
Robert Mugabe softens his line
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is finally cracking under relentless pressure by African leaders to meet opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and solve the economic and…
Double blow for Bob
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…
Treason trial interest wanes
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…
Rush on Zim banks as panic grips nation
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…
‘Quiet diplomacy’ the key phrase in Zim
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…
Obasanjo to pave way for Zim handover
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…
Plan to get Zim leaders talking
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…
A taste of things to come
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…
An express train to the border
Every week, South Africa deports hundreds of refugees. David Masunda reports.