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Service delivery update

CHRA — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:50:00 +0100

Service delivery update

UN high commissioner for Human rights arrive in Zimbabwe

Rebecca Moyo — Mon, 21 May 2012 08:40:00 +0100

UNITED Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms Navanethen Pillay arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday night for a five day visit to assess the human rights situation in the country.

Mpofu against nationalisation of mines

Rebecca Moyo — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:46:00 +0100

MINES minister Obert Mpofu says he would not allow the destruction of Zimbabwe’s mining sector by heeding calls to nationalise diamond fields.

IT never rains but it poors for Zimbabwe

Rebecca Moyo — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:39:00 +0100

The country's maize harvest is estimated to drop by 26% to 1 million tonnes after an estimated 45% of the crop that was planted this season was written off due to drought, the African Development Bank (ADB) has said.

Bill Watch - Public Hearings: Committee Reports

Veritas — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:30:00 +0100

BILL WATCH PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES SERIES [19th May 2012]

Mugabe threatens seizure of foreign firms resisting black empowerment

VOA Studio 7 — Sat, 19 May 2012 13:33:00 +0100

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Friday warned foreign-owned companies not willing to comply with the country’s black empowerment regulations, to leave or risk nationalization by the government.

Jonathan Moyo accused of defrauding parliament

Lance Guma — Sat, 19 May 2012 13:31:00 +0100

An MP from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party has said he will soon move a motion calling for the expulsion from Parliament of ZANU PF’s Tsholotsho North legislator Professor Jonathan Moyo.

Chinese companies warned over abuse of Zimbabwean workers

Tererai Karimakwenda — Sat, 19 May 2012 13:30:00 +0100

Chinese nationals who own businesses in Zimbabwe have been strongly criticized by the MDC-T for abusing local workers and flouting the country’s labour regulations, with the party demanding that the abuses be stopped immediately.

Polarisation overshadows endorsement for a draft constitution

Tichaona Sibanda — Sat, 19 May 2012 13:28:00 +0100

Factional infighting in ZANU PF is threatening to scupper a proposed draft constitution that enhances democracy but contains measures that they say go against the ‘revolutionary party’ values.

MDC-T speaks on ‘invasion’ of Manicaland by military top brass

Tichaona Sibanda — Sat, 19 May 2012 13:27:00 +0100

The MDC-T on Friday condemned the involvement of men of the Zimbabwe security forces in the conduct of elections in Manicaland province, saying doing so would amount to gross derailment of the exercise.