The Zimbabwe government has begun evicting thousands of families who have occupied mainly white-owned farms that were not earmarked for acquisition under the country’s land reform programme.
The Zimbabwe government has shrugged off the EU’s decision to extend sanctions against senior officials and ruling party members, including President Robert Mugabe’s wife.
The outcome of the first trial under Zimbabwe’s infamous new press-gag law is expected to be known on Monday when a Harare magistrate decides whether Andrew Meldrum, Harare correspondent for the London Guardian, is guilty of publishing ”falsehoods”.
Restaurant customers in Zimbabwe pay with thick wads of local currency bulging in their bags and pockets. Real estate buyers hand over deposits of millions of Zimbabwean dollars stuffed into suitcases and car trunks.
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.
Theft, prostitution and child labour are some of the means hunger-stricken communities in Zimbabwe are using to cope with the effects of drought and food shortages.
The Zimbabwe government on Tuesday refused to renew the work permit of the AFP bureau chief in Harare, who must now leave the country by the end of the week.
Zimbabwe’s parliament on Wednesday rushed through amendments to land laws, giving the government of President Robert Mugabe a freer hand to seize white-owned property and evict farmers, state television reported.
Zimbabwean police have arrested a total of 277 white farmers since the start of a crackdown on those defying a deadline to leave their land to make way for new black farmers.
A court in Zimbabwe has ordered the government not to destroy or tamper with ballot papers used in a disputed poll which returned President Robert Mugabe to power in March this year.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.