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Disputed: The elections will be marred by new repressive laws and intimidation, as well as ID numbers belonging to dead people, and names and addresses that don’t match. Photo: Zinyange Auntony/Getty Images

Ghost voters haunt Zimbabwe elections

An analysis of the voters’ roll indicates that the elections on 23 August for the president and legislature will not be free and fair

Australia to renew cricket ties with Zimbabwe

Australia could renew cricketing ties with Zimbabwe next year starting with a series between the two countries’ A teams.

Private schools sprout in Zim as public system struggles

"No disruption to learning" touts a newspaper ad for a new private Zimbabwean school, one of many springing up in living rooms across Zimbabwe.

Zim teachers agree to end year-long strike

Zimbabwe’s teachers agreed to end a strike that emptied classrooms for a year, after the government promised to review salaries.

New Zealand PM prepared to block Zim tour

John Key said on Monday he was prepared to stop the Black Caps’ tour of Zimbabwe if necessary and was unsympathetic to calls for the tour to go ahead.

MDC divided over boycott of poll re-run

After a day of top level meetings, Zimbabwe’s main opposition party on Saturday failed to make a decision on whether it will take part in presidential run-off elections scheduled…

Mugabe: ‘This is a time to fight’

To Robert Mugabe, Saturday’s presidential election in Zimbabwe is not so much a vote as war. From his campaign slogan — Get Behind the Fist — to speeches invoking the liberation…

Tsvangirai vows to revamp Zim economy

Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader pledged on Wednesday to revamp the country’s crumbling economy by introducing a new currency within six months if he wrests the presidency from…

MDC: Zim crisis is world’s worst

The humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe has become the world’s worst but is still largely ignored by the international community, a member of the opposition Movement for Democratic…