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/ 20 February 2009
Roy Bennett claims he returned to Zimbabwe upon receiving assurances for his safety from South African President Kgalema Motlanthe.
Both Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe have stuffed the new Cabinet with close loyalists from their parties.
One would expect a man who lying sick on a narrow bed with a hole in the middle and a bucket underneath not to feel particularly optimistic.
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/ 25 December 2008
We will count those who threw it in and left the country this year. Bloody cowards, we will lie to ourselves for comfort.
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/ 13 December 2008
Jason Moyo reports on how the Mugabe regime is using abduction as a means of political struggle.
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/ 8 December 2008
With a cholera outbreak raging and basic services collapsing, the word in Harare for weeks has been that "something is about to happen".
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/ 14 November 2008
The key point of contention is the home affairs ministry, which both parties are desperate to have in their hands.
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/ 24 October 2008
Calls mount for the power-sharing deal to be abandoned, writes Jason Moyo.
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/ 17 October 2008
Even if the Zimbabwean power-sharing deal had not reached a deadlock over the allocation of Cabinet posts, there were already many signs of failure.
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/ 26 September 2008
With the mediator’s future uncertain, Zimbabwe’s ground becomes even shakier for the MDC, Zanu‑PF and the ANC
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/ 6 September 2008
The army was accused of leading militia loyal to Robert Mugabe in a brutal election campaign that the MDC says left more than 100 people dead.
Business confidence in Zimbabwe stands at 2%, a new report showed last week.
A transitional government in Zimbabwe should be given two years to let the dust settle before another round of elections can be held, says Angola.
Robert Mugabe is desperate to be declared president this weekend to ensure any inter-party negotiations proceed on his terms.
The state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation does not show the violence or cover the MDC in its news bulletins.
President Robert Mugabe rejected fresh calls for economic reform at a rare meeting with the heads of Zimbabwe’s largest business groups this week.
As Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe rolls out his strategy to hang on to power, attacks on his opponents are getting bloodier by the day.
Residents wishing to leave restricted rural areas have to seek ‘authorisation’ letters. In an indication of how blatant election-related violence has become in Zimbabwe, witnesses have described how a 24-year-old man was chased into a police station in Muzarabani, north of Harare, last Sunday and beaten to death.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has warned Zimbabwe that it will accept no more excuses from the Zimbabwean Electoral Commission (ZEC) if it fails to release the results of the Zimbabwean presidential elections by Saturday.
In their front room, 200m from Gwanzura stadium, the Matizas could just hear President Robert Mugabe vow that he would never allow the opposition to take power. For the eight members of the family, Mugabe’s threats during his Independence Day speech last Friday had special meaning.
Zimbabwe’s political future remained wide open this week, as Zanu-PF girded its loins for a second round of voting and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change warned that it would not participate in a run-off. Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa said that Zanu-PF had accepted that because no party had won an outright majority a run-off was inevitable.
The most important job of the Southern African Development Community summit scheduled for Lusaka, Zambia, this weekend, would be to push the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to release the country’s election results, a senior South African official has told the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>.