President Robert Mugabe’s government has used its press-gag laws against another journalist, charging a local reporter with ”publishing falsehoods”.
Senior Zimbabwean officials, including the two vice-presidents and relatives of President Mugabe, have taken farms under the government’s land reforms, according to the country’s Commercial Farmers’ Union. The reforms were promoted as a scheme to benefit landless farmers.
South African and Nigerian envoys were holding separate talks on Monday with officials of Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), the Foreign Affairs Department said.
ZIMBABWE’S Foreign Minister Stan Mudenge said on Monday that President Robert Mugabe had no trouble travelling to the United States for a UN meeting, despite sanctions that normally should bar him from entering the country.
POLICE arrested and charged a columnist for Zimbabwe’s only independent daily newspaper on Monday, bringing to eight the number of journalists arrested under harsh new media laws critics say are aimed at stifling free speech in the country.
A potential water crisis in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare was averted on Monday after the Reserve Bank announced that it would provide 000 for the purchase of water purifying chemicals.
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has accused some
non-governmental organisations (NGO’s) of meddling in the country’s internal affairs and said his government will regulate them, a newspaper said on Saturday.
At least 627 teachers have been fired in Zimbabwe for taking part in an illegal strike, state ZBC television reported on Monday.
An American journalist charged with publishing a false story under Zimbabwe’s draconian new media laws was found not guilty Monday, but was immediately ordered to leave the country.
Zimbabwe’s government on Tuesday urged black settlers to move onto white-owned farms despite the mounting number of court cases over President Robert Mugabe’s controversial land reforms.
A magistrates’ court in Zimbabwe has set a trial date for three opposition leaders accused of plotting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe.
The Zimbabwe government has accused the US of breaching regulations by allowing some of its diplomatic staff to travel outside the capital without permission, a newspaper said on Thursday.
Settlers on formerly white-owned farms in Zimbabwe have been accused of torturing pets left behind by fleeing owners, a privately-owned paper said Sunday.
Two senior officials of a Catholic church agency meant to help refugees have been sacked for sexually harassing and demanding sexual favours from their charges at a camp in Zimbabwe.
Hundreds of Zimbabwean farmers have quit production, but continue their fight against land grabs. Justice for Agriculture (Jag) representative John Worswick said on Thursday that only about 200 commercial farmers were still trying to keep producing this season although about 600 commercial farmers were still on their properties.
A HIGH COURT judge ruled Friday that the government cannot strip citizenship from people born in Zimbabwe, and ordered the state to renew the passport of rights activist Judith Todd.
The fate of hundreds of white farmers in Zimbabwe defying government orders to give up their land remained unclear after Mugabe’s anxiously awaited Hero’s Day speech yesterday.
Mugabe to reward ‘loyal whites’
The Zimbabwe government has reinstated more than half the 627 teachers it dismissed two weeks ago for taking part in a strike, a newspaper reported on Monday.
Along with fuel shortages, bread shortages, shortages of milk and other basic commodities, residents of the Zimbabwe capital Harare now have water shortages to contend with.
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan had given his backing to a program by President Robert Mugabe’s government to seize thousands of white-owned farms.
The humanitarian group Medecins sans Frontieres
”fully supports” the emergency plan to fight Aids announced this week by Zimbabwe’s government, the group said in a statement.
White Zimbabwean opposition MP Roy Bennett (44), his bodyguard and a South African national were released on Tuesday on bail two days after being arrested by secret police, lawyers said.
ZIMBABWE’S finance minister, Simba Makoni, said on Wednesday that government would normalise the situation in its farming areas, wracked by violent farm invasions for more than two years.
President Robert Mugabe’s government has published new laws that make it a crime to gesture rudely or swear at his high-speed, heavily armed motorcade.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday said his former protégé and information minister Jonathan Moyo would be clobbered in this month’s key parliamentary vote, which he is contesting independently.
A Zimbabwean journalist with a private daily is due to appear in court Monday to face trial under the country’s tough new media law.
Only about half of the farm land confiscated by the government in one of the country’s formerly most productive agricultural areas has been occupied by new settlers, close to a month after the expiry of the first deadline for them to move on.
UN food agencies estimate 3-million of the 13-million population in Zimbabwe will face starvation by June.
As the United Nations preparatory commission met this week in New York to set the International Criminal Court in motion, the human rights crisis in Zimbabwe continued to worsen ? sparking fresh enthusiasm for the prosecution of President Robert Mugabe and his inner circle.