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/ 4 December 2009
The parties in Zimbabwe are trying to gauge the attitude of Zuma’s new mediation team.
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/ 14 September 2009
Morgan Tsvangirai insists he will no longer tolerate violations of power sharing agreement by the Zanu-PF party.
South Africa is considering granting credit lines for neighbouring Zimbabwe, President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Monday.
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/ 28 January 2009
Director general in the presidency Frank Chikane on Wednesday briefed the media in Pretoria and Cape Town on the outcome of the Zimbabwe talks.
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/ 21 January 2009
Zimbabwe’s power-sharing talks are close to collapse after Robert Mugabe refused to relinquish control over the key security ministries.
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/ 5 December 2008
‘No worse there is none," was the anguished cry of poet Gerard Manley Hopkins — and it is an apt description of the crisis in Zimbabwe.
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/ 9 November 2008
Zimbabwe’s ruling party and opposition leaders looked set to dig their heels in on power-sharing demands ahead of a crunch summit.
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/ 7 November 2008
Southern African leaders will pile pressure on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai at a summit on Sunday.
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/ 14 September 2008
The power-sharing deal Robert Mugabe is expected to sign on Monday with his arch-rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, will protect him from prosecution.
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/ 10 September 2008
Zimbabwe political rivals meeting in Harare could sign a power-sharing deal on Wednesday, veteran President Robert Mugabe said late on Tuesday.
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/ 9 September 2008
Zimbabwe’s military leaders, through the Joint Operations Command, persuaded Mugabe to stay on to save their own interest.
Negotiations on power-sharing to end Zimbabwe’s crisis may be endangered if President Robert Mugabe unilaterally convenes the new Parliament.
There is still some jostling over Mugabe’s political future between Zanu-PF hawks and doves, as the document remains unsigned.
Mugabe is a bad man. Make no mistake. But who is to say that FW de Klerk or PW Botha or any of their Cabinet ministers were saints?
A signature, some handshakes and four days of talks have raised hopes for an end to Zimbabwe’s political crisis.
Mugabe’s friends in Africa have dwindled in the wake of the violent presidential election run-off, while industrial confidence and capacity suffer.
The secret talks between Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe are not a "new dawn" for Zimbabwe, as some South African media seem to imagine.
The state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation does not show the violence or cover the MDC in its news bulletins.
A month before a presidential election run-off, Zimbabwe’s opposition said on Tuesday conditions were not conducive for a free and fair poll, but still expressed confidence it would oust Robert Mugabe. "As of yesterday [Monday], at least 50 of our supporters had been killed in violent attacks." the Movement for Democratic Change said.
The horror facing Movement for Democratic Change members in Zimbabwe became apparent this week.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s government intensified a crackdown against its political opponents on Monday, as the leader of the opposition prepared to return home to contest a run-off election. Journalists, union leaders and hundreds of political activists have been arrested since general elections in March.
Zimbabwe’s opposition on Monday mulled whether to contest a presidential election run-off after winning the first round as President Robert Mugabe’s camp began gearing up for the ballot. "We are still putting things together and when we are ready, we will get the press informed," George Sibotshiwe, a spokesperson for opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, said.
Supporters of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF have set up a network of torture camps where they have been assaulting opposition activists, a leading rights group said on Saturday. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said that suspected supporters of the opposition were being rounded up and then beaten.
President Thabo Mbeki will attend a Southern African Development Community (SADC) emergency summit this weekend in Zambia on the post-election crisis in Zimbabwe. However, Mbeki’s cherished policy of "quiet diplomacy" on Zimbabwe has been rejected by his own party.
Zimbabwe awaited a key court ruling on Tuesday, which could order an end to the 10-day wait for presidential election results as pressure on veteran leader Robert Mugabe mounts. The High Court was due to rule on a petition by the opposition demanding the electoral commission immediately declare the outcome of the March 29 polls.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai declared himself the clear winner on Saturday of a presidential election and accused Robert Mugabe’s ruling party of preparing for a "war" against the people. "The result is known, that the Movement for Democratic Change [MDC] won the presidential and parliamentary election," Tsvangirai said.
Zimbabwe was on Saturday facing a protracted battle between the opposition and President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party over the outcome of elections, with results still awaited a week on from the vote. Mugabe, still to make any public comment since last Saturday’s elections, was endorsed by his Zanu-PF party on Friday to stand in a run-off.
The Zimbabwean government is abolishing executive mayorships in local councils. Its critics within local authorities say the reason is that the ruling party lost control of almost all urban councils when the opposition Movement for Democratic Change won most mayoral contests in the previous local authority elections.
Zimbabwe’s crackdown on political dissent may need to be discussed by the United Nations Security Council, a prominent Southern African human rights activist declared this week. Opponents of President Robert Mugabe have reported large-scale harassment and intimidation in the tense period leading to elections due later this month.
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/ 10 February 2008
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who only days ago looked assured of re-election next month as a result of splits in the opposition, now has to contend with a growing mutiny within his own ranks. Analysts who had regarded Mugabe as a shoo-in at national polls are revising their forecasts.
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/ 31 January 2008
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe may have dealt a fatal blow to Pretoria’s "quiet diplomacy" by calling an election in the middle of mediation efforts by his South African counterpart, say analysts. President Mbeki was handed the poisoned chalice of mediating between Mugabe and the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change last April.
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/ 28 January 2008
The Zimbabwe government on Monday slapped down opposition demands for a new constitution to be adopted before a March general election, saying it would only be put to a referendum after the polls. Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa told the state-run <i>Herald</i> newspaper that "the state was not in a hurry to craft a new constitution".