A Zimbabwean court is ordering a close ally of the prime minister to be held in jail after his second arrest this month on charges of abuse of office.
From an abandoned mine shaft near Mount Darwin, 150km north of Harare, nearly 1 000 bodies are being pulled to the surface.
SA and the international community need to acknowledge the power-sharing deal in Zimbabwe has failed, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai warned on Friday that Zimbabwe could slide back to "dark days" of violence.
Zimbabwe’s privately owned <em>Daily News</em> was back on the streets on Friday more than seven years after being shut down by the government.
With the threat of arrest hanging over him and his party restricted by Zanu-PF, Morgan Tsvangirai, faces his sternest leadership test.
Mugabe’s sabre-rattling about the possible seizure of major companies with "Western links" is an "idle threat," economist Eric Bloch said
Robert Mugabe’s wooing of the Chinese has angered his supporters.
Zimbabwe will effectively nationalise half the country’s key resources sector by setting up a sovereign wealth fund to own 51% stakes of mining firms.
Zimbabwe is not ready for elections, and will not be ready until it has dealt with present and past human rights violations, says Human Rights Watch.
A Zimbabwean magistrate’s court on Monday freed 38 activists charged with treason for discussing the mass protests in Egypt.
The Zimbabwe Media Commission has announced plans to set up a statutory media council to "curb excesses" by the media.
Officials fear Robert Mugabe is secretly sending arms to Ivorian election loser Laurent Gbabgo for use against civilians.
Citizens are forced to sign a document blaming sanctions for all economic woes.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has threatened to boycott Western products before seizing companies from countries that have imposed sanctions.
Internet campaigns calling for protests against the rule of President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday did not lead to any mass gatherings in Zimbabwe.
As far as presidential birthdays go, Zimbabweans have the best ones.
Another dissident critic of President Robert Mugabe was arrested, while police defied a court order to give medical help to 12 others, lawyers say.
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/ 23 February 2011
Zimbabwean police detained 46 people, including a former lawmaker, for attending a lecture and discussion group on mass uprisings in Egypt.
Similar, but very different to Egypt, Zimbabwe’s citizens are simply too downtrodden to resist.
Zimbabwe’s police have seized cars belonging to Morgan Tsvangirai’s official escort and arrested his drivers for possessing police beacon lights.
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/ 11 February 2011
Morgan Tsvangirai says his power-sharing pact with Robert Mugabe would continue as the country’s uneasy unity government passed its two-year mark.
Amnesty International said on Friday that Zimbabwe’s two-year-old coalition government has failed to end human rights abuses and political violence.
The US on Thursday expressed alarm at new violence in Zimbabwe, accusing the Zanu-PF of carrying out the attacks ahead of possible elections this year
Zimbabwe’s shaky unity government on Friday marks two years in power, but President Robert Mugabe’s call for early polls has sparked fears violence.
Zimbabwe has hiked mining exploration fees almost 2 000% to $1-million in a bid to curb speculation, a state daily reported on Wednesday.
Zimbabwe’s fragile unity government has been dealt a blow by a leadership struggle within it smallest faction.
Zimbabwe’s high commissioner to SA praised SA as an "all-weather friend" when he handed his letters of credence to President Jacob Zuma on Thursday.
It was business as usual as the AU’s two-day summit stuck to its planned schedule, despite the problems in Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan and Côte d’Ivoire.
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/ 31 January 2011
Zimbabwe has seen a surge in political violence and intimidation as the government prepares for national elections, an advocacy group said.
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/ 31 January 2011
It lies lost and buried beneath the ground. <b>Verashni Pillay</b> imagines what it may be used for.
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/ 30 January 2011
The global diamond industry has controversially cleared the way for President Robert Mugabe’s regime to raise millions of dollars from exports.