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/ 30 December 2007
Bare supermarket shelves, bank queues and burst riverbanks — for many Zimbabweans a bad year ended in a bad way. At least 27 Zimbabweans died in floods this month while thousands have spent precious holiday days in bank queues, waiting for scarce cash.
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/ 23 October 2007
South African companies are cashing in on Zimbabwe’s economic turmoil, boosting investments and expanding their operations despite deepening hardships, a human rights group, the South Africa-registered Solidarity Peace Trust, said on Tuesday.
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/ 16 September 2007
Zimbabwe’s main labour union will go ahead with a two-day strike next week despite government signals the wage freeze that triggered the protest would be relaxed, a top labour official said on Sunday. President Robert Mugabe’s government ordered a price freeze in June as part of ongoing efforts to stem rampant inflation, which is running above 7 600%.
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/ 16 September 2007
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is consolidating his hold on power as he ruthlessly tackles his arch-critics ahead of 2008 polls in which he is a candidate, analysts say. His latest victim is former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, Pius Ncube, one of his strongest critics, who resigned this week from his post in the aftermath of an alleged adultery scandal.
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/ 13 September 2007
President Robert Mugabe on Thursday fired a broadside at Western media for biased coverage of events in Zimbabwe, ignoring an adultery case involving his staunch opponent, former archbishop Pius Ncube. ”If one of my own ministers does mischief and takes another person’s wife, it will be carried on television and they will say this is what Mugabe’s ministers are doing,” Mugabe said.
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/ 12 September 2007
Former archbishop Pius Ncube, a leading critic of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe who resigned after an adultery scandal, was forced out by the Vatican, a news report in Zimbabwe said on Wednesday. In an article headlined ”Pius forced to resign”, the government mouthpiece Herald newspaper said Ncube (60) had been pressured to leave by the Vatican.
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/ 11 September 2007
Archbishop Pius Ncube, a leading critic of President Robert Mugabe, resigned on Tuesday after an adultery scandal but said he would not be silenced by the ”wicked regime”. Ncube stood down as archbishop of Bulawayo after state media in July published photographs of him in bed with a married woman.