A community portal about Zimbabwe with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, and formerly known as the Republic of Rhodesia, is a landlocked country in the southern part of...
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A community portal about Zimbabwe with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, and formerly known as the Republic of Rhodesia, is a landlocked country in the southern part of the continent of Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It borders South Africa to the south, Botswana to the west, Zambia to the northwest, and Mozambique to the east. The name Zimbabwe derives from "dzimba dzemabwe" meaning "houses of stone" in the Shona language. Its use as the country's name is a tribute to Great Zimbabwe, site of the capital of the Munhumutapa Empire.
Four years after her house was demolished in a blitz by Zimbabwe's government, Chipo Chama still lives in a grass thatched shack struggling to find a better home for herself and her two children. Though she is married to a builder, the 27-year-old housewife has rickety wooden planks for walls and covers her roof with plastic sheeting to keep out the rain in Harare's Hatcliffe suburb -- far from the neighbourhood where she used to live. "Right now I don't have a housing lot, but we are paying... Read Full Story
Harare, Zimbabwe, 17 December 2009 No one appears much interested in what Mugabe had to say at the Climate Summit in Copenhagen, which has been plagued by protests and has seen the Danish Minister who was the incoming president of COP15 resign from that job. Photos of Mugabe addressing the Summit have been released, but they are not accompanied by any information on what he actually said. Later on today, we will know, I suppose and I will bring you that story. Meantime, I have learnt that... Read Full Story
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has told his deeply divided ZANU-PF to prepare for elections but his movement may never regain absolute power after losing its parliamentary majority last year, analysts said. Mugabe had enjoyed uninterrupted rule since independence in 1980 but ZANU-PF suffered its first defeat last year in March and was forced to form a unity government with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). The next election is... Read Full Story
President Robert Mugabe answers reporters' questions in Copenhagen on Tuesday 14 December as he waits for the opening of the Climate Summit. Behind him you can see two of the MDC-Tsvangirai ministers who are part of his huge delegation (Energy Minister Elias Mudzuri and Sipepa Nkomo). Mugabe at the weekend showed he is still the Master of Patronage by co-opting a losing Provincial Candidate into the ZANU PF Central Committee. The two MDC ministers above are also getting the special Mugabe... Read Full Story
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was endorsed Sunday to lead his ZANU-PF party for another five years and vowed to resist demands by his opponents to reform the country's security forces. At 85, Mugabe is in the twilight of a political career spanning more than half a century and has led ZANU-PF since the mid 1970s when the party fought a guerrilla war against white minority rule. But the veteran leader was forced to share power with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's... Read Full Story
President Robert Mugabe and newly sworn-in Vice-president John Nkomo in Harare yesterday, December 14 2009. ZANU PF has now been exposed to be directly responsible for media licences despite the existence of the Inclusive Government and Morgan Tsvangirai in that government. It means that we are still operating under a one-party state in all but name. This new information also confirms the fact that it is highly unlikely that ZANU PF and Mugabe will move to licence new media (newspapers... Read Full Story
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Friday bemoaned the divisions that he said were "eating up" his party, as he opened its first congress since losing its absolute grip on power. "The party is fighting itself. It's eating itself up," the 85-year-old leader told more than 5,000 loyalists. "We have to restore our party as the people's choice, the only choice, the people's party," the president said. Mugabe and his ZANU-PF have ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, when they... Read Full Story
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe bemoaned the divisions ripping at his party, as he opened its first congress on Friday since it lost its absolute grip on power. "This is the moment of defence, the moment we are called upon to stand firm and say no, no, no, to this infiltration by the neo-imperialism," the veteran leader told more than 5,000 loyalists. Mugabe and his ZANU-PF have ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, when they took control as the magnanimous liberators from... Read Full Story
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was re-elected Saturday as ZANU-PF leader for the next five years, urging supporters to work for the survival of the party. "We must begin to work for the party, never for personal egos. We must begin to organise our people for the party," Mugabe told supporters at the closing day of the party congress. "We go back stronger, better focused party, ready and rearing to take the enemy who has sought our ruin," he said. The election puts Mugabe in a position to... Read Full Story
South African mediators Friday said progress has been made in talks between the rival parties of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. "There is progress on the dialogue that has been made between the parties," Lindiwe Zulu, spokeswoman for the mediators, told AFP. "While we are anxious that all issues are resolved, the good thing is that they are talking," she addded. "As far as we are concerned and as far as President (Jacob) Zuma is concerned, the... Read Full Story
