Johannesburg - The international community must fund the rebuilding of a "shattered" Zimbabwe after decades of repression under veteran President Robert Mugabe, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Thursday. In a keynote speech on his last trip to Africa as premier, Blair voiced Britain's support for efforts by South African President Thabo Mbeki to mediate between the Mugabe...
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) elections director Ian Makone was granted a hefty $150 million bail and ordered to surrender his passport and title deeds for his three residential properties.Makone, who had remained in police custody senior Zimbabwe opposition official who had been in police custody since March owed his successful bail application to his education, high investments in the...
Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair revealed on Tuesday he would be meeting South Africa President later this week to deliberate on the political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe.As Blair made the announcmeent, South Africa's Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dhlamini-Zuma heavily defended her government's much-criticized quiet diplomacy in handling the Zimbabwean crisis.Castigating...
Zimbabwe will put 40,000 more people on life saving anti-retroviral drugs by the end of the year despite an economic crisis that has hobbled the country's health care, state media reported on Tuesday.The southern African country is among the worst hit by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, killing more than 3,000 people every week and accounting for 70 percent of hospital admissions.But Zimbabwe, in the grips...
President Thabo Mbeki's mediation in Zimbabwe must reflect fairness and an understanding of both government and opposition in that country, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday. Reports that Mbeki had given pre-conditions to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) before the dialogue could resume were disturbing, said DA spokesperson Joe Seremane."Unfortunately, there are no...
Harare - Zimbabwe police said more than 200 opposition activists and officials arrested on Saturday were suspects in recent petrol bomb attacks on police stations, shops and some government supporters. The main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) says allegations that its supporters have launched a violent campaign against President Robert Mugabe's 27-year rule are designed to justify...
The three-month ban on political rallies and protests in Harare which the government imposed in February has been extend by another month.Police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena announcing the extension...
NAIROBI, May 23 (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe celebrated a landmark agreement by Africa's biggest trade bloc on Wednesday with a favourite pastime -- attacking the West and justifying his actions.Charged with giving a vote of thanks at the end of a meeting to approve a landmark deal on harmonised tariffs, Mugabe roused an audience of the COMESA trade bloc, poking fun at Europe...
MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) who were deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC) war are furious as they are yet to receive their promised payments, five years after they returned home. The soldiers say the ZNA Commander General Constantine Chiwenga in 2002 promised them $US5000 each on returning home and families of those who died were to be compensated with $US10000. In September...
The British-based Financial Times reported on Monday that the ruling Zanu PF and opposition Movemnet for Democratic Change (MDC) were in clandestine negotiations in neighbouring South Africa.The Financial Times, quoting unnamed sources said South Africa was presiding over the talks, which had a rough start, but had progressed well between delegates from both political parties.South African President...