An analysis of the voters’ roll indicates that the elections on 23 August for the president and legislature will not be free and fair
Australia could renew cricketing ties with Zimbabwe next year starting with a series between the two countries’ A teams.
No image available
/ 7 February 2010
"No disruption to learning" touts a newspaper ad for a new private Zimbabwean school, one of many springing up in living rooms across Zimbabwe.
No image available
/ 24 February 2009
Zimbabwe’s teachers agreed to end a strike that emptied classrooms for a year, after the government promised to review salaries.
No image available
/ 23 February 2009
John Key said on Monday he was prepared to stop the Black Caps’ tour of Zimbabwe if necessary and was unsympathetic to calls for the tour to go ahead.
After a day of top level meetings, Zimbabwe’s main opposition party on Saturday failed to make a decision on whether it will take part in presidential run-off elections scheduled for next month. Observers now fear that there is a fierce dispute within the Movement for Democratic Change over whether to boycott the second round of voting that was announced on Friday.
To Robert Mugabe, Saturday’s presidential election in Zimbabwe is not so much a vote as war. From his campaign slogan — Get Behind the Fist — to speeches invoking the liberation war against white rule, the president of Zimbabwe has defined his campaign to extend his 28-year rule as the final struggle against British imperialism.
Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader pledged on Wednesday to revamp the country’s crumbling economy by introducing a new currency within six months if he wrests the presidency from Robert Mugabe in weekend elections. ”The economy is dead,” Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, told thousands of supporters in Murewa.
No image available
/ 17 September 2007
The humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe has become the world’s worst but is still largely ignored by the international community, a member of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said on Monday. David Coltart said the crisis in the former British colony had far outgrown the ability of any single nation to tackle.