The European Union has given Zimbabwe $267 million, it said on Monday, the first time the bloc has given financial aid to the southern African nation’s government since imposing sanctions in 2002.
The 28-nation EU has gradually eased biting sanctions … Read the rest
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe on Wednesday ratcheted up pressure against few hundred white remaining farmers saying they too must go adding whites would no longer be allowed to own land in Zimbabwe.
In an address filled with anti-western rhetoric at the … Read the rest
by TAU Bulletin
And a school matriculation certificate is not a ticket to the corner office, the VIP lift and the executive washroom.
Education is holistic: it is not a voucher for a comfortable life, nor a ticket to the … Read the rest
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema said on Tuesday that he wanted to emulate Robert Mugabe and congratulated the Zimbabwean leader on being re-elected president.
Speaking from Nigeria where he was visiting spiritual leader TB Joshua for “blessings” and “divine … Read the rest
Federal prosecutors announced charges Tuesday against two Chicago men who they accuse of illegally lobbying US lawmakers to lift sanctions against longtime Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and members of his regime in exchange for a promise of $3.4-million.
Prince Asiel … Read the rest
by Susan Njanji
International unease mounted Sunday over the re-election of Africa’s oldest leader Robert Mugabe in polls denounced by Zimbabwe’s opposition as “stolen”.
Mugabe, 89, in power since 1980, trounced his long-standing rival Morgan Tsvangirai in Wednesday’s polls with … Read the rest
Zimbabwe’s election was credible and fair, the chief of the African Union observer mission said Friday, but the bloc’s report noted some problems with the voter roll and of people being turned away from polling booths.
President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF … Read the rest
ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe has accused Zimbabwe’s Zanu-PF of using Julius Malema’s party to destabilise the ANC in Limpopo.
Mantashe also accused Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) of distorting the Freedom Charter.
He was addressing political journalists and their editors … Read the rest
Recent comments made by members of Jacob Zuma’s technical team on the situation in Zimbabwe were “unfortunate”, says the presidency.
President Robert Mugabe on Thursday rebuked the “insane” US for criticising his push for elections without key reforms and told it to keep its “pink nose” out of Zimbabwe’s affairs.
“America must be mad, absolutely insane,” Mugabe, who is seeking … Read the rest
Zimbabwe’s political rivals have clashed over an apparently secret document said to be from intelligence sources that alleges an outlandish plot by President Robert Mugabe to hire a Lebanese murder squad to assassinate his South African counterpart, Jacob Zuma, and … Read the rest
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has filed an urgent application with the country’s top court to push back crucial elections by two weeks, his justice minister said Wednesday.
Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa told AFP he had filed papers “yesterday (Tuesday)” that … Read the rest
The New York Times recently carried an article stating that Zimbabwe’s “land reform”, confiscating the land of white farmers, was a “success”. Now this report from the United Nations World Food Programme shows the true picture: a country where one … Read the rest
