Zimbabwe could run out of bread in a week after flour stocks dwindled due to the country’s failure to pay for imported wheat, according to a confidential letter written to bakers by the country’s grain millers’ group on Monday.
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Letter: Zimbabweans are not freeloaders
Zimbabweans don’t want to be here. South Africans don’t get that. We have voted and voted against the ruling party (and Mugabe) and each time we had the opportunity to be rid of those murderers guess who came to their … Read the rest
Bob’s latest speech blunder
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe made a speech blunder on Tuesday during the opening of the third session of the eighth Parliament of Zimbabwe.
Instead of reading the parliamentary opening speech, Mugabe re-read his State of the Nation Address, which he … Read the rest
Lion kills safari guide in Hwange
A safari guide has been mauled to death in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, where Cecil the lion lived.
Camp Hwange has named the guide as 40-year-old Zimbabwean Quinn Swales.
Camp Hwange said in a statement that the attack happened on … Read the rest
Zim state broadcaster fires hundreds
Zimbabwe’s state broadcaster said on Thursday it has laid off nearly 300 workers as it battles financial woes.
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) board of directors has “so far terminated the contracts of some 282 staff members on three months’ … Read the rest
‘What lion?’ Zimbabweans ask as Cecil circus goes global
As social media exploded with outrage this week at the killing of Cecil the lion, the untimely passing of the celebrated predator at the hands of an American dentist went largely unnoticed in the animal’s native Zimbabwe.
“What lion?” acting … Read the rest
Zim to hand back land to some white farmers
Zimbabwe’s government has for the first time suggested it may give official permission for some white farmers to stay on their land, 15 years after it sanctioned widespread land grabs that plummeted the country into an economic crisis.
Douglas Mombeshora, … Read the rest
Biti: Zimbabweans might start eating each other
Zimbabweans might soon resort to cannibalism if the gripping hunger stalking the nation is not averted, former Finance Minister Tendai Biti has said.
Biti, now secretary general of the MDC Renewal Team, told party supporters in Harare’s dormitory town of … Read the rest
Mugabe blames xenophobic violence on whites
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe laid the blame for xenophobic violence in South Africa on whites, because he said they still owned most of the land and had most of the opportunities.
“It is a matter of the whites keeping things … Read the rest
Unprecedented security at Zim Pakistan clash
Thousands of police and paramilitaries have been deployed and helicopters will be buzzing over Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium, which has been turned into a fortress for Friday’s Twenty20 cricket game against lowly Zimbabwe.
Authorities have mounted an unprecedented operation to guard … Read the rest
Gold stash found near Beitbridge
Gold with an estimated value of R24m and copper cable valued at around R14 000 were seized near the Beitbridge border post on Monday, the SA Revenue Service (SARS) said.
“During an inspection of a Toyota Quantum microbus at the … Read the rest
Mugabe toys with ‘land rentals’ to pay white farmers
An announcement from President Robert Mugabe’s government that it will soon start collecting land rentals from new black farmers to help compensate white farmers whose land was taken from them could be “very good”, the director of the Commercial Farmers’ … Read the rest
SA, Zim cement defence and security
Ministers from South Africa and Zimbabwe have discussed mutual issues of defence and security.
They’ve pledged to strengthen the fight against cross-border crime, using intelligence agencies from both countries.
Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has been quick to dismiss claims that … Read the rest
Zimbabwe will need more food aid in the south as crisis looms
Zimbabwe, ruled by the despotic Robert Mugabe installed as leader by Great Britain in 1980, is still experiencing food shortages, mainly as a result of its anti-white policies which saw most white commercial farmers ethnically cleansed from the country.
According … Read the rest