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.
British High Commissioner to Zimbabwe Brian Donnelly was warned on Wednesday not to ”interfere” in the internal affairs of the southern African country, according to the state-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.
ANDREW Meldrum, a correspondent for London’s Guardian newspaper, was arrested on Wednesday morning under President Robert Mugabe’s new press-gag law.
The Zimbabwe-born son of Hungarian refugees on Wednesday won the right to challenge President Robert Mugabe’s draconian new citizenship laws which threaten to leave two million Zimbabweans stateless.
A thief who disguised himself as a ghost using ash and grease and robbed foreigners at a prime tourist site in southern Zimbabwe has been arrested, the Herald newspaper reported Saturday.
An American food relief expert urged the Zimbabwean government to drop restrictions on the import of corn that could not be certified free of genetically modified material.
Zimbabwe customs officials have refused to allow 30 tons of emergency food into the country obtained by the main opposition party, citing import regulations.
The Zimbabwe government has ruled out devaluation of the country’s volatile currency despite a foreign exchange crisis that has rocked the country for years.
Zimbabwe police said on Sunday they had arrested at least 133 white farmers for defying orders to vacate their farms under President Robert Mugabe’s controversial land reform program.
Zimbabwe has suspended import restrictions on drugs to treat the deadly Aids pandemic, which claims more than 2 000 lives a week in the southern African nation.
A ZIMBABWEAN court denied a request on Tuesday by two journalists to drop charges filed against them under harsh new media laws.
Nearly three years of rural instability has badly damaged Zimbabwe’s crucial tobacco harvest, with the country likely to sell only a fraction of the tobacco it did in 2000, producers said on Tuesday.
While queues lengthened for maize meal, sugar, and cooking oil, Zimbabwe’s Central Statistic Office on Wednesday reported inflation had reached at all time high of 123,5%.
Fifteen white Zimbabwe farmers have been charged with defying a government ban on farming, the first move against this community since the ban came into force last week.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government has published regulations that freeze the prices of a huge range of retail goods, reports the state press.
Genetically modified food is safe for human consumption and should be used to fight famine threatening millions in southern Africa.
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai warned on Monday of a gathering ”people’s storm” that would battle what he called President Robert Mugabe’s ”civil-military junta”.