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Morgan Tsvangirai at the airport on Thursday as he left for Libya to meet with Muamar Gaddafi, a Mugabe ally. None of the issues that led to his short-lived "disengagement" from ZANU PF and Cabinet have even been talked about. Now ZANU PF says there is nothing anyone can do to them if they drag their feet and do not stick to the SADC timeline of 30 days to resolve the outstanding issues Harare, Zimbabwe, 22 November 2009 After failing to meet the deadline of 15 days within which talks must start to resolve the impasse in Zimbabwe's Inclusive Government, ZANU PF, Mugabe's party, ... Read Full Story
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An arms dealer who said he was tortured into testifying will be allowed to take the stand in the terror trial of a top ally of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a judge ruled Wednesday. The trial of Roy Bennett, a top Tsvangirai aide and treasurer to his party, has thrown Zimbabwe's fragile unity government into crisis with claims that the former white farmer schemed to overthrown President Robert Mugabe three years ago. Arms dealer Peter Hitschmann is the state's star witness against Bennett, but has already said that he was tortured into making statements to authorities. Bennett's lawyers had sought to block his testimony, ... Read Full Story
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Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and ministers from his party attended a cabinet meeting on Wednesday after recently ending a three-week boycott of the country's fragile unity government. "The prime minister and all the ministers from his party attended cabinet," James Maridadi, a spokesman for Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change party, told AFP. Tsvangirai, a longtime opposition leader, joined his rival President Robert Mugabe in a unity government deal in February this year. Tsvangirai's attendance at the cabinet meeting follows a deadline set by the Southern African Development Community regional bloc last week for the three parties in the government to meet within 30 ... Read Full Story
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government has proposed that "indigenous Zimbabweans" take 51 percent ownership of all foreign companies, including mines and banks, according to a draft law seen by Reuters Friday. An official at the Chamber of Mines expressed surprise and concern at the proposed legislation, prepared by the Ministry of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment. "We haven't seen the regulations but if what we've heard is true, then that's a step back. It goes against what we've been discussing with the Ministry of Mines and other ministries," the official, who declined to be named, said. The draft regulations said indigenous Zimbabweans should hold ... Read Full Story
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With pivotal people like Roy Bennett (above, at the High Court in Zimbabwe), being "harassed" and brought before the courts for lengthy trials, the MDC-Tsvangirai is adrift, putting all its efforts into seeing whether they can pack even more useless bodies into government. Mugabe thinks that is all fine: it leaves him free to continue with his plan to ensure that he gets back into a commanding position at the next elections. Harare, Zimbabwe, 17 November 2009 A Zimbabwean court yesterday threw out an application by Pascal Gwezere, an MDC-T Intelligence Department official (he is officially called a Transport Manager) t be removed from ... Read Full Story
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Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AFRIMAP), Open Society Initiative Southern Africa(OSISA), Open Society Institute Media Programme (OSIMP), in conjunction with MISA-Zimbabwe launched a report based on a survey entitled “Public ...  
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from SWRadioAfrica...The MDC has accused ZANU PF of mobilizing its militia to re-open torture bases countrywide, to intimidate the electorate into accepting the controversial Kariba Draft constitution. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party says it has unearthed evidence that meetings are being convened to revive terror squads to harass, intimidate and torture people to endorse the draft constitutional document, which leaves sweeping...  
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ZIMBABWEAN Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai left on Thursday for North Africa, where analysts said he would meet Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to maintain political pressure on President Robert Mugabe to honour their power-sharing accord. Tsvangirai ...  
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HARARE: Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai left Zimbabwe yesterday for Morocco and Libya, the current African Union chair, where he said he would brief Muammar Gaddafi on the unity government. Tsvangirai said he was invited by the Libyan leader, and ...  
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HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai left for Libya Thursday afternoon at the invitation of the North African country’s leader and African Union chair, Murmur Gaddafi. Tsvangirai will brief the Arab leader on the progress of Zimbabwe’s ...  
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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai left Zimbabwe Thursday for Morocco and Libya, the current African Union chair, where he said he will brief Moamer Kadhafi on the unity government. "I am taking the opportunity of being in the region to meet the ...  
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THE Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC has publicly attacked Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara and his party for siding with President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF during last Thursday’s Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security mini-summit in Maputo ...  
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