The ZIMBABWE
Situation
January 2008 ARCHIVE
NEWS and Other Articles
- Posted 31/1/08
- US imposes financial sanctions for undermining democracy in Zimbabwe
- Mbeki's Mediation in Zimbabwe Falters
- Face-to-Face Talks Between Tsvangirai And Mugabe Scuttled
- Flood victims denied aid for backing MDC
- Zimbabwe begins voters’ roll inspection exercise
- * Tsvangirai sole presidential candidate *Safe seat for Mutambara
- Mbeki Dispatches Envoy to Harare to Rescue Talks
- SADC to be briefed on Mbeki mediation
- 'Wily Mugabe deceives Mbeki'
- South Africa: A Spent Force Standing in the Path of Democracy
- Zimbabwe's gold production falls by more than a third
- Controversial Mines Bill dead in the water
- ZANU PF presidium to decide fate of war veterans’ chief
- Ahead Of African Union Summit, Zimbabweans Lobby For Pressure On Mugabe
- Zimbabwe court rules Briton can be extradited
- Government Orders Universities to Remain Closed Till After Elections
- Voters Kept in the Dark Over New Constituency Boundaries
- Open letter to Gideon Gono: RBZ Governor
- Makumbe says MDC shot itself in the foot
- Chiefs Fine Villagers Who Do not Attend Zanu (PF) Political Meetings
- British tycoon van Hoogstraaten in mass pornography charges
- Zimbabwe rejects Bush’s criticism on lack of freedom
- Zimbabwean Civic Group Says Violence By Police, Army On The Rise
- Zimbabwe Opposition Courts African Union Leadership As Summit Opens
- Students demonstrate in Bulawayo
- Church files contempt charges against pro-Mugabe bishop
- Zimbabwean Clerics Suggest Protest Vote In Controversial March Balloting
- Fears grow: Zimbabwe farmers caught between two floods
- MDC’s Position Short on Clarity
- Gukurahundi Ghost Haunts Matabeleland
- Statement on Ongoing and Looming Strikes
- Posted 30/1/08
- Govt opening “people’s shops” to control food ahead of elections
- Nicholas van Hoogstraten released from cells
- Warning - voter registration & alterations closes Friday 8 Feb
- Harare’s banks take cover
- Sokwanele - Election Watch
- Election body ZESN concerned over intolerance
- Mugabe regime extends total disregard for SADC
- MDC members walk fine line on Harare polls
- Zim attorney-gen faces tribunal probe
- Mowing And Cleaning Replace Geography And Algebra
- NCA Statement on ZRP Attacks on Civilians
- Makoni's bid to fight for a Zanu PF seat accepted
- Mixed response to Bush's attack on Zimbabwe's human rights record
- Legal Revolution Destroying Zim Agriculture
- Government Fails to Pay Wheat Farmers
- Free from Mugabe’s Grip, Zanu PF Split Is the Only Chance for a Better Zimbabwe
- Pathetic deteriorating situation in Zim a matter of concern
- Nicholas Van Hoogstraten: The dodgy dealer
- Posted 29/1/08
- British tycoon denies currency, pornography charges in Zimbabwe, claims entrapment
- MDC factions set to unite
- MDC asks Mbeki to seek SADC advice on talk’s deadlock
- Zim rules out new constitution before election
- Zimbabwe begins probe into AG’s conduct
- Lawyer battles to have British tycoon brought to court
- New board for firm that Harare says will use to seize businesses
- Pro-Mugabe pastor to dish out 100 000 housing stands
- Harare Riles Opposition With Offer Of Post-Election Constitutional Revision
- Four firefighters die in floodwaters in Zimbabwe
- Teachers on strike as union blasts government for corruption
- Scores of Babies Die in Hospital's 'Death Bed'
- Zimbabwe - Africa’s paradise?
- Zesa Battles to Restore Power to Generator
- Zim youth group to petition for diaspora vote at Zimbabwe embassy in South Africa
- Space headache for Parly
- Executive Mayors axed
- Zimbabwe 2008: The triumph of the politics of fear
- With Zimbabwe Elections Nine Weeks Off, Ruling Party Picks Candidates
- Zimbabwe Opposition Makes Case Against Mugabe On AU Summit Margins
- When leaders apologise for their sins....
- RTGS System Facing Connectivity Problems
- ZSE - the Cradle of Country's Emerging Trillionaires
- Citizens Face Xenophobia As They Flee Their Country
- Posted 28/1/08
- Water outages hit fire tenders, woes mount in Zimbabwe
- Zimbabwe teachers strike over pay: union
- Zimbabwe Vigil Diary - 26th January 2008
- African leaders must tighten screws on Mugabe, say NGOs
- Church leaders keen to resuscitate initiative
- Gold miners plead for price review to stay afloat
- Why Mugabe will win
- May I be the first to congratulate Mugabe
- Mugabe more ruthless with age
- Cash-strapped ZBH pays for live African cup rights
- Bulawayo's dams filling, but chemical drought means scarcer water
- UK property tycoon to appear in court in Zimbabwe
- Is ZANU-PF's Makoni serious?
- Elections scheduled for March 29th
- Minister to review Zimbabwe tour
- Batch 2 Posted 27/1/08
- Poll date: Mugabe 'act of madness'
- Scores of babies die in hospital's 'death bed'
- Zanu PF women in $10b swindle case
- 'Free elections' like chasing a ghost, says AU official
- Heavy rains destroy homes
- Suspected MDC supporters excluded from govt support
- NRZ 'go-slow' disrupts passenger, freight services
- Bulawayo could run out of drinking water
- Mutare prosecutor in trouble over new party
- Nightmare of long-distance bus travel
- Monetary crisis needs cool heads all round
- Crooked polls...just like death, taxes
- Healthcare hell
- Zimbabwe opposition reunites
- Getting Harder To Keep Children In School
- ''It Is All Zero Here. We Have Nothing''
- Posted 27/1/08
- Tycoon held on currency charges
- Van Hoogstraten's life of controversy
- Foes accuse Mugabe of forcing early election
- Mugabe plunges Zimbabwe opposition into new election dilemma: analysts
- US says early Zimbabwe elections another Mugabe effort to avert political conciliation
- Zimbabwe court orders farmer to leave his land
- News Release from the Zimbabwe Vigil - 25th January 2008
- A letter from the diaspora
- The fall of a gallant fighter Getrude Muthombeni
- Posted 26/1/08
- Zimbabwe sets March 29 for presidential, parliament elections; opposition had wanted delay
- Zimbabwe Crisis Resolution Process Cut Short By Mugabe Election Call
- Mugabe Announces Election Date as Political Rivals Disappear
- 'Mugabe has slapped Mbeki's efforts'
- Farmers group says to challenge land seizures
- Zim admits promise of bumper harvest has failed
- Banking industry facing fresh cash crisis
- Concern over Pre-Election Environment
- Between the Lines
- Zim Dollar Tumbles Again
- CHRA local government weekly update
- Zuma says West’s interference stalling progress in Zim
- Batch 4 Posted 25/1/08
- Mbeki mediation an exercise in futility
- Zimbabwe tourist arrivals from Europe, US fall by 21 percent
- Harare pledges to act to save farming season
- Is Zimbabwe the next Kenya?
- Zimbabwe Cash Crisis Eases But Local Currency Value Heads South
- Air Zimbabwe fares up 300 percent
- Massive security breach infuriates Mugabe
- Mugabe must go now - Gen Vitalis Zvinavashe
- Economic Madness Returns
- Sokwanele - Zimbabwean Christmas in Retrospect
- Linda Mbiko: "Johannesburg is a place of gold, but it's not easy to get that gold, even if you dig"
- Zimbabwe's Matabeleland North Province Latest To Be Hit With Floods
- Ignoring Regional Ruling, Zimbabwe Supreme Court Clears Farm Eviction
- Batch 3 Posted 25/1/08
- Banks face collapse
- Press Statement by R Khumalo, CEO Zimind Publishers (Pvt) Ltd.
- Dabengwa confronts Mugabe
- Makoni presidential plan falters
- 'Zanu PF behind Kunonga antics'
- ZSE party about to come to an end
- Minister blames water crisis on power cuts
- Coup case crumbles
- Banks trapped in liquidity crunch
- ZSE on downward spiral
- Zim domestic debt shoots to $21 trillion
- Zimbabweans hooked to cellphones
- Econet approaches govt for forex
- NIPC and medical aid societies: Way forward
- Banks sail in choppy waters
- RBZ has duty to protect banks - Chikura
- A thug and a spiritual leader
- MDC demands no longer feasible
- Nation ready to embrace Makoni
- Mugabe's govt gives education a bad name
- The irony of a Zuma presidency
- Banking crisis deep-rooted
- Bvudzijena’s glaring double standards
- To march or not to march: the issues
- Air Zimbabwe flying high, but . . .
- We saw it coming
- Zim Independent Letters
- Batch 2 Posted 25/1/08
- Zim stops mining power-generating coal
- Zimbabwe says in late bid to salvage farming season
- US, Europe hampering Zimbabwe mediation, says Zuma
- White farmer vows to challenge Muzorewa farm grab
- Civil groups to set common agenda for resolving Zimbabwe crisis
- Zimbabwe Laywer Group Calls for Investigation of Government
- Tsvangirai briefs diplomatic community
- The limits of megaphone central banking
- How to put Zim back on the right path
- US protests detention of Zimbabwe opposition leader
- AU spotlight on Zim
- SA Cops Guard Zim. Embassy
- Fu Manchu Versus Dr Livingstone in the Dark Continent?
- United States Gives $12 Million to Pediatric AIDS Foundation Initiative
- MISA launches research and documentation productions
- Batch 1 Posted 25/1/08
- Mugabe crushes rebellion
- Mbeki plans another trip to Zim
- ZANU-PF heavies scramble for new seats
- Blackouts plunge economy further down the abyss
- 2008: Economy, economy, economy
- Cash crisis: Scourge to ordinary people
- Broad coalition, not Makoni, only hope for winning polls
- Zim losing potential export earnings
- Efforts to help HIV patients continue
- Mann’s fate in Patel’s hands
- Party talks: Compromise a necessary evil
- An intolerable bungle
- Ministry caught flat-footed again
- MDC has a historic opportunity!
- Cash Shortages - the Value of Dollarisation
- FinGaz Letters
- Batch 2 Posted 24/1/08
- Robert Mugabe's reforms are ridiculed after police crackdown on Zimbabwe rally
- Zimbabwe’s Opposition to Apply for Another Protest March Permit Thursday
- Amnesty International Calls for Police Restraint in Anti-Government Protests
- Anger as black Zimbabwean bishop seizes white owned farm
- Harare to seize farm, ignores SADC Tribunal ruling
- Heavy rains wash away crops in parts of Zimbabwe
- Power Restored In Zimbabwean Capital But Blackouts Persist Elsewhere
- WITNESS: Returning to Zimbabwe, life looks tougher for most
- Zimbabwe journalist discusses oppression in his African country
- ZCTF Report: Update on Tatenda
- Government and ECB pass Zimbabwe parcel
- Posted 24/1/08
- Zimbabwe police fire tear gas into crowd headed to opposition rally
- Zim court allows opposition protest
- Opposition activists teargassed, beaten
- Zimbabwe opposition leader condemns 'pro-Mugabe' police
- MDC stages successful protest march, despite police crackdown
- Zanu PF politburo meets over looming split
- ZESN says Zimbabwe election should be postponed
- Zambia cuts Zimbabwe power supply
- Second Blackout Hits, Zesa Battles to Restore Power
- Zimbabwean's struggle to survive
- Mugabe’s Weary Travelers
- My Zimbabwe diary
- Chinese Investor Eyes IBDZ Stake
- MPs allege corruption in Victoria Falls airport upgrading
- Financing Failure: How Foreign Aid Is Mismanaged
- Batch 2 Posted 23/1/08
- Morgan Tsvangirai arrested
- Zimbabwe's opposition leader detained
- Zimbabwe farmer loses fight, faces eviction
- Eat donkey meat! Mugabe's new whacky plan
- Aid clash - Zanu insists on distributing food aid from donors
- State Sponsored Violence comes to Bulawayo
- Harare gives banks week to clear cash queues
- Mugabe meets Makoni
- Zimbabweans Abroad Demand Election Postponement, Right To Vote For Expatriates
- Exiled Zimbabweans can vote wherever they are
- Harare And Other Zimbabwean Cities Without Electricity For Fourth Day
- Police vow to arrest participants in banned march
- Defiant MDC Call for Peaceful Rally Despite Police Ban
- Mugabe Blocks Gono From Naming Corrupt Officials
- Children starve as Zimbabwe's grain goes to make luxury dog food
- Posted 23/1/08
- Zimbabwe opposition challenges protest march ban
- MDC will go ahead with march
- Retired army generals call on Mugabe to step down
- MDC to push case for good governance at AU summit in Ethiopia
- Walking for survival
- Bank chief fails to turn up at Parliament
- Zimbabwe's only way out
- Questions Over Reported Progress in Zimbabwe Talks
- SADC ‘must save Zimbabwe talks’
- The big Zim blackout - shape of things to come?
- Zimbabwe chief banker fingers banks for 'artificial' cash shortages
- Church officials say it's unlikely Zimbabwean election will be fair
- Zimbabwe May Produce 41% Less Tobacco Than Forecast This Year
- Business sector bemoans power outages
- War vets give Heroes Acre tours
- Zimbabwe Boarding Schools in Crisis
- Foreigners flee from Soshanguve: report
- Today's 'imperialists' were those who nurtured Mugabe
- Posted 22/1/08
- Zimbabwe police ban opposition march
- Zimbabwe opposition gears up for march
- Zimbabwe cbank blames banks for banknote shortage
- Mbeki not asked to brief AU on Zimbabwe talks
- South African President Mbeki Seen Referring Zimbabwe Crisis To Region
- Zanu PF muzzles RBZ governor Gono
- Mbeki Has Mammoth Task in Zimbabwe
- Zimbabwe Vigil Diary - 19th January 2008
- Zimbabweans stage demonstration in London
- White farmers mull joint legal challenge against Mugabe
- Six questions parliamentary committee must ask Gono
- As Mugabe goes back on the defensive, Mbeki faces a crisis of credibility
- Zimbabwe VP Mujuru Disavows Pamphlets Announcing Presidential Bid
- Pylons Collapse As Thieves Steal Wires
- Access To Zimbabwe Redistricting Report Limited Even For Lawmakers
- Nampower Dismisses Zesa Reports
- Namibian consumer to foot N$270 m bill for Zim loan
- Rural Bus Operators Ground Fleet
- Makoni resigns from Zanu PF?
- UK asylum decision throws lifeline for Zimbabwe teachers
- Posted 21/1/08
- Nationwide power cuts in Zambia, Zimbabwe
- MDC to march,says no to poll
- Delimitation exercise dismissed as a fraud
- Gono could get more than he bargained for
- Zim not ready for poll -US envoy
- 'Sleeping in' by Kingtons workers finally pays off
- Bulawayo council broke
- Pressure group to stage 'Gukurahundi' marches
- Chihuri blasts NIPC
- For once, let’s have free, fair elections
- What if everybody gave up?
- Problem with African democracy: voting for individuals
- Zim Standard Letters
- Truth and Fiction
- Mbeki's Failed Mission
- McGee on Zim land reforms
- Ask a Zimbabwean for tips on power cuts
- Is SADC serving any real purpose in the region?
- Book Review
- Posted 20/1/08
- Amid talks deadlock, Mugabe signs security and media law reforms in Zimbabwe
- Zimbabwe judge orders feuding church to worship at different times
- Simba Makoni challenging Robert Mugabe
- Makoni: hope for Zim poll?
- The spirit lives on
- Giant Water Bugs
- A letter from the diaspora
- Cuban ambassador confirms Havana's support of Zim
- Zimbabweans queue for jobs that South Africans won't do
- Eskom pulls plug on SA's neighbours
- Posted 19/1/08
- Mugabe Ends Talks to Resolve Zimbabwe Crisis
- Zimbabwe: Mbeki puts on a brave face
- New notes fail to dent Zim cash shortages
- Building societies fail to get delivery of new notes
- The disappearing dollar
- Expert's Advice To Tame Zimbabwean Hyperinflation: Shut Central Bank
- Education System Collapsing Under Weight Of Zimbabwe Economic Crisis
- Chaos in Schools As Teachers Continue Go-Slow
- Harare Water Crisis Attributed To Shortage Of Purification Chemicals
- Zim election: 'March is too early'
- MIC invites Daily News to apply for registration
- Group plans protest over 1980s atrocities
- Zimbabwe students to protest over fees
- Cheaper, more accessible ARVs might be on the cards
- Market hemorrhaged by massive profit taking
- Makoni: The carpet under which ZANU PF chaff will be swept
- Responding to the PMTCT challenge
- Would you buy a used car from these men?
- Illegal worker got asylum tribunal job
- Dangerous dispatches
- Batch 3 Posted 18/1/08
- MP Butau issues statement on Gono scandal
- Vigil faces bully-boy tactics
- MDC and Zanu PF compromise necessary: Molokela
- FEWS Zimbabwe Food Security Alert 17 Jan 2008
- Mbeki fails to save MDC/Zanu talks
- Makoni faces credibility test
- Gono dares his accusers
- Kunonga goes berserk in church
- Zanu PF politburo meets next week
- Musindo in bid to stop rape trial
- The economics of cash crisis in Zimbabwe
- Zimbabweans ill-prepared for economic recovery
- Occupational fraud at a glimpse
- IMF estimates Zim's inflation at 150 000%
- Experts call for probe of RBZ, police
- Judge Patel: 'Your Lordship' or 'Learned Friend' - Which is which?
- Voting in one day: People reject procedure
- Makoni should embrace broad-based coalition
- World police impotent on Kenya
- MuckRaker
- Destruction-phobia knows no bounds
- Can Makoni match up?
- Chickens coming home to roost
- Let’s shun language of violence
- Zim Independent Letters
- Batch 2 Posted 18/1/08
- Deal to end Zimbabwe crisis 'imminent'
- Mbeki fails to break deadlock
- Zimbabwe in the last lap towards total collapse
- ZANU PF and MDC talks: Why compromise is a necessary evil
- NamPower to fork out more in Zim power deal
- Monetary Doctor Steve Hanke Examines Zimbabwe Hyperinflation In New Book
- Harare Water Taps Remain Empty But Cause Of Crisis Still A Mystery
- Zimbabwe Opposition Cites 'Anomalies' In National Redistricting Report
- Farm Equipment Used to Buy Votes
- Doctors' Bid to Get Paid in ForEx Rejected
- Tobacco Output Seen Lower This Year
- Zim to Lose Exclusive Gold Rights
- China to Inject More Funds Into Zim Venture
- Zim to Lose Exclusive Gold Rights
- 'Price Controls a Form of Sanctions'
- Graft Not the Only Police Problem
- Bulawayo to Host Election Debates
- Gono to Spill the Beans Before Parly Commitee?
- ZTA Brews a Shocker
- Who Should Pay for Cash Crisis?
- Cop's Death Ominous
- U.S. Set to Pump More Aid
- Kibaki Afflicted By the 'African Disease'
- Journalists Down Tools
- Posted 18/1/08
- Mbeki meets Mugabe to try to end Zimbabwe deadlock
- Compromise Plan May End Political Stalemate in Zimbabwe
- A serious rival, at last?
- Time may not be on the Zanu PF renegades' side
- New Political Parties Mushroom As March Election Nears
- Zimbabwe bank issues $10million bill - but it won't even buy you a hamburger in Harare
- Zim opposition push for vote delay
- Farming implements lie idle two months into rainy season
- Harare allocates US$2 to Supreme and High Courts
- Grain firm turns to production of dog food
- Zanu PF Turning Flood Relief Centres Into Political Rallies
- Deputy Minister for Labour Implicated in Gwanda Murder Case
- Zimbabwe Teachers Association Blames Cash Crisis For High Absenteeism
- Zimbabwe Water Woes Deepen As Much Of Harare Remains Cut Off
- Report On Electoral Redistricting Submitted To Zimbabwe Parliament
- Dabengwa leads Zanu PF revolt, to challenge Mugabe
- Newsletter - Bulawayo South Constituency
- Robert Gabriel Mugabe is Simply Indefensible
- ANZ to re-submit Daily News application
- Exiled ENG director Muponda on BTH
- Posted 17/1/08
- 10 million dollar note...
- Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe statement on the cash situation and stabilisation measures
- Talk in Zimbabwe of New Political Party Gains Momentum
- JAG - urgent compensation/legal communique, Dated 16 January 200
- Opposition vows mass protest against Mugabe's rule
- S.Africa sees progress in Zimbabwe crisis talks
- DA doubts Mbeki's assurances on Zim
- Zimbabwe schools order children to bring own food
- Business says water crisis crippled operations
- Villagers Flee Police Backlash in Nyanyadzi, Manicaland
- Schools Chaos As Parents Battle Cash Shortages & Fee Hikes
- Zim Schools fail to open
- Zimbabwean Capital Without Running Water For A Second Straight Day
- Corruption driving Zimbabwe's inflation
- Condemnation for Zimbabwe government intervention in Christian service
- Zimbabwe issues new flood warnings amid heavy rains, situation worsens in Mozambique
- Makoni, Tsvangirai & Mutambara: wise men from the East?
- MDC must abandon talks
- Q&A: ‘We Want to Prepare Voters For the Election and the Post-Election Scenario’
- 'These queues have become unofficial MDC rallies'
- Mutambara MPs see easy ticket in Tsvangirai
- Part Of Zimbabwe Opposition Declares Itself Ready For March Elections
- Dialysis equipment lies idle in government hospitals
- Heavy Rains a Disaster for Farming
- No middle ground for crops between drought and deluge
- A Zimbabwean visits South Africa
- ZIMBABWE/UK: No welcome mat for asylum seekers
- MDC-UK plans London demonstration
- MDC to press ahead with demands for a new constitution
- Posted 16/1/08
- Mugabe faces party split and leadership challenge
- Irish PM hopeful of breakthrough in Zimbabwe talks
- Hopes for change in Mugabe's Zimbabwe
- Leo Mugabe claims has corruption evidence against Gono
- Zimbabwe bank chief summoned over cash shortages: report
- Police arrest man for hoarding 36 billion Zimbabwe dollars
- New Zim dollars worthless, informal traders shun new currency
- Zimbabweans flock to SA for uniforms
- Harare in water shortage crisis
- Nam-Zim Power Loan 'Written Off'
- Rural women struggle to get treatment
- Laughing Zimbabweans don't cry
- Exiled Mugabe critic vows to keep writing
- Zim church attacks 'concerning'
- Zimbabwe firm eyes New York listing
- Message to the Youths of Zimbabwe
- AIPPA, POSA, BSA amendments signed into law
- Posted 15/1/08
- Schools in Zimbabwe face bleak start to new year as water woes and supply shortages worsen
- Churches raided in Zimbabwe for opposing disgraced bishop
- CIO called in to help Kunonga's men take over
- Zim to keep close eye on foreign election observers
- African oppositions' greatest challenge
- Zim judiciary says ready to protect rights
- Zim woes to fetter progress towards SADC free trade area
- Parliamentary group summons central bank chief
- US calls for free and fair polls in Zimbabwe
- Mediation Talks Resume Under Chairmanship of Mbeki
- Tsvangirai Conducts Door-to-Door Consultations in Manicaland
- Visiting Irish leader concerned about Zim
- International Federation warns of potential disastrous flood crisis in southern Africa
- Zimbabwe stranded feared dead - Summary
- Zimbabwe opposition vows to avoid election violence
- No water for Harare and Chitungwiza
- Zimbabweans face tough times with humour
- Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe a den for gangsters
- Zimbabweans turn to cross-border shopping sprees
- Zimbabwe judge bemoans staff exodus, slow trials
- Report: Zimbabwe draws up register of HIV/AIDS 'curers'
- We sentence you to...for impunity
- Zimbabwe - Democracy, Africa style
- Posted 14/1/08
- Zinwa to cut Harare water supplies for one week from Monday
- Zimbabwe villagers use human excrement on farms: media
- Zimbabwean police break up church services
- Pro-Mugabe bishop forms splinter church
- Mugabe goes shopping while Zim crumbles
- Harare enlists UNDP help to draft economic blueprint
- ZANU PF, MDC resume talks
- Zimbabwe's new press, security laws take effect
- Zimbabwe Vigil Diary - 12th January 2008
- Mbeki scrambles to save talks as MDC seeks SADC intervention
- MDC launches 'New Zimbabwe' campaign with 300 rallies
- Zuma takes swipe at African dictators
- A people’s struggle for freedom
- Mugabe's Multiple Mistakes
- Zimbabweans shun banks after cash shortages
- Flood Relief Efforts StepUp In Mozambique; Evacuation Difficult Amid High Water Levels
- China is Zimbabwe's biggest investor, state media
- Batch 2 Posted 13/1/08
- Zimbabwe opposition threatens violence if Mugabe rigs poll
- Cahora Bassa Resumes Power Supplies to Zim
- Third Way: A Force in the political parallel market
- MDC factions to end rivalry, choose one presidential candidate?
- 56 Days
- A letter from the diaspora
- Britain Deports Anti-Mugabe Activists
- Birthday bash for Mugabe
- Chingoka wants ICC to ensure teams play Zimbabwe
- Olonga calls for PM to axe tour
- Batch 1 Posted 13/1/08
- State urges probe into RBZ 'dealings'
- Less than 60 days to go, but not a poll sign in sight
- MDC plans demos on new constitution
- Why Zanu PF wants executive mayors out
- Power cuts fatal blow to ailing health sector
- Maize being used to 'bribe voters', causing shortages
- Govt plays down diarrhoea outbreak
- Airzim halts flights to Masvingo
- 'Dollarisation': killer or cure for economy? goes
- ZCTU, WOZA plan anti-Gono demos
- AirZim, ministry divided over Madombwe's future
- Kenya crisis: defining moment for Africa
- How to cheat the ballot camera
- Democracy without wealth, the Gordian knot in African politics
- A glimpse into the lives of Africa's geriatric dictators
- Zim Standard Letters
- Posted 12/1/08
- Zimbabwe to pay Malawi $94 million for maize
- Zimbabwe farmers struggle in new life
- Zimbabwe army helps flood victims, report says
- Report: Zimbabwe policeman killed by diamond miners
- ZAPU to forge poll alliance with MDC
- New political party led by Makoni & Mandaza dismissed as a farce
- Flooding Brings More Misery to Vulnerable Households
- Zimbabwe Water Shortages Intensify, Posing Risk Of Deadly Epidemics
- Suburb Goes for 6 Months Without Water
- US, UK issue fresh travel warning to Zimbabwe
- Harare to put 40 000 hectares under jatropha
- One day, this hope will just evaporate like mist
- Mugabe plans bill to boost re-election
- MDCs want fast-tracked bills enacted as earlier on agreed
- 800 cattle die due to shortage of dip tank chemicals
- Mugabe under attack for failing to feed own citizens
- The millions return…
- Not Only Zimbabwe Opposition Concerned About Tight March Election Timetable
- Appointment of Acting Attorney General is Unconstitutional
- Power Streams in From Crisis-Dogged Zimbabwe
- Maputo pulls plug on Zimbabwe
- Threats in response to Zim election article
- NCA warns Mbeki to mediate with Zimbabweans at heart
- Batch 3 Posted 11/1/08
- Central bank chief to be grilled over currency deals
- Mugabe to dissolve Parliament, announce election date
- Council halts anti-malaria spraying programme
- Millers seek massive maize-meal price increase
- Kibaki re-enacts Mugabe’s electoral shenanigans in Kenya
- Zanu PF faction to launch party
- . . . as MDC lines up 300 rallies
- Anglicans revoke Kunonga's licence
- Moyo in alliance with MDC to save Tsholotsho
- Basic commodity prices shoot up
- Judgement in Moyo defamation case next week
- Mabvuku water crisis exposes Zinwa's failure
- Magistrates return to work
- New levy for cross-border traders
- Media council to engage minister
- Zesa begins Namibia power exports
- Parastatals fail to account for RBZ funds
- No solution in sight to cash crisis
- AirZim can't charge fares in forex: RBZ
- Tsvangirai risks political irrelevancy
- Victory is certain
- What’s the MDC doing?
- The real lessons from Kenya
- Mushohwe’s degree has not helped him
- Practical solutions to cash crisis
- New media law reforms cosmetic
- Zim Independent Letters
- Zimbabwe's March Elections in a Crunch
- Zimbabwe economic crisis cripples mission station
- Vermeulen pleads not guilty to arson
- Batch 2 Posted 11/1/08
- Zimbabwe election observers report problems three months ahead of poll
- Zimbabwe power output down, neighbours cut supply
- Zimbabwe's poverty line hits 100 million dollars, report says
- Mbeki steps in to take charge of Zim talks
- MDC plans protests over election date
- Bulawayo runs out of maize-meal
- Zimbabwe Bread Shortage Spawns Homemade Solutions
- British Foreign Official Voices Concern That Zimbabwe Talks Have Stalled
- Police summon feuding church officials
- Testing time for MDC as they line-up 300 rallies countrywide
- Zim diamonds could be financing international terror groups
- Mugabe’s Presidential Bid Cost Taxpayers Trillions and Freedom Is the Next Casualty
- Talks On Hold to Accommodate Chinamasa Holiday
- Cities of Harare, Chitungwiza are threat to environment
- The Future of Zimbabwe: Prospects for Democracy and Economic Recovery
- Calling On ALL Zimbabweans in Diaspora
- Economy in the Red, Black Market Thriving
- Nampower switches on Zesa
- President Mbeki should be impartial on talks
- Lonrho Airlines spreads its wings in Africa
- No Shoes for Zimbabwe
- JAG job opportunities dated 10 January 2008
- Batch 1 Posted 11/1/08
- ZANU-PF snubs Mbeki
- Primaries to expose growing rift in ruling party
- Companies fail to re-open
- ZRP needs 32 000 new recruits for poll
- Fear grips ZANU PF as fresh purge looms
- Kenya chaos: Lessons on flawed election processes
- Millers press for review of maize-meal price
- ZINWA: Consumers getting raw deal from troubled authority
- Zimbabwe still friendly to investors
- Disaster in agric production looms
- Zimbabweans lose confidence in own currency
- Committee urges ZESA to lease idle power stations
- Zesa Sinks U.S.$20m Into Hwange Revamp
- Country is Named Worst Economic Freedom Violator
- Graft is enemy No.1
- Where is Chombo when the nation needs him?
- Zim judicial system needs overhaul
- FinGaz Letters
- Posted 10/1/08
- Zim running out of medicine, says report
- How Zimbabwe lost control of inflation
- Zimbabwe police chief warns against poll violence
- Food stockpiling as people fear the 'Kenya syndrome'
- Mugabe’s relative gets top police post
- Teachers Awarded 1000 Percent Salary Hike
- Mbeki Expected to Take Direct Control of Mediation Talks
- MDC factions begin unity talks
- MDC will not recognise new constituency boundaries
- Pro-Mugabe parishioners attack rivals
- Africa Channel responds to Mugabe interview criticism<
- Media gag on crop updates
- South Africa's Opposition Urges Universities to Reject Zanu-PF Students
- Zimbabwe: House of Lords Debate
- Zimbabwe suspects British government of orchestrating BA's pullout
- Lawyers worried by MIC's delay to hear Daily News case
- Zimbabwe faces more food shortages
- Gono blames politicians for massive cash heist
- SA: Kenyans Throw Their Weight behind New Zimbabwe Constitution
- Solidarity Message to the People of Kenya
- What to do about Mugabe
- Zimbabwe Experience - Conclusion
- Posted 9/1/08
- More displaced by Zim floods
- Mozambique suspends power to Zimbabwe over unpaid debt
- Zimbabwe's farmers warn of more food shortages
- Government witholds civil servants' payslips
- Still no home, four years after Operation Murambatsvina
- Group urges exiled Zimbabweans to come home and vote
- War veterans’ murder trial set for March
- Zimbabwe Government Considers Another Price Crackdown On Businesses
- Go, Mugabe Go
- Ousted Bishop Kunonga holds church service under police protection
- MDC 'In Talks With Zuma-Led ANC'
- GMB desperate for transport as supplies run out
- Bleak future stares Zimbabweans in the face
- Musings of a Zimbabwean exile
- Zim dollar takes another dive
- Zimbabwe Electoral Commission Under Fire Over Pre-Election Redistricting
- Water-borne diseases in Harare - Mutezo must go!
- Zim works to augment ailing power supply
- Continued Cash Shortages In Zimbabwe Seen Further Crippling The Economy
- MDC’s Preview of the 2007/8 Agricultural Season
- Posted 8/1/08
- Report: Zimbabwe price police to prosecute overchargers
- Zanu PF forces traditional leaders to head rural party structures
- Harare says won’t touch farms protected under investment treaties
- Mugabe churchman conducts rival service in Harare
- Zimbabwe’s economic lights to get dimmer in 2008
- Zimbabwe’s economic collapse almost complete
- Lessons for nation building
- Breakdown plunges parts of Zimbabwe into darkness
- "God Only Loves Mugabe"
- Zim prosecutors, magistrates weigh new salary offer
- Govt policy condemns thousands to poverty, ignorance
- Zimbabwean exile calls for vote delay
- Floods hit southern Africa, more than 1 mln at risk
- Water Shortages Cause Diarrhoea Outbreak
- Bank governor in the political fray?
- Furore Over Prison Deaths
- JAG urgent legal communique, Dated 7 January 2008
- Zimbabwe: How to live without money
- Posted 7/1/08
- Electoral agency rules out postponement of polls in Zimbabwe
- Striking Zim magistrates awarded wage hike
- Raises can't offset Zimbabwe inflation
- Queues for money in Harare turn deadly
- ZCTF Report - Farewell to Tusker
- Newsletter from Zimbabwe
- Zimbabwe Experience - Part 1
- Zimbabwe Experience - Part 2
- Zimbabwe Experience - Part 3
- Zimbabwe Experience - Part 4
- Zimbabwe Vigil Diary - 5th January 2008
- Zimbabwe tour of Pakistan goes ahead
- Batch 2 Posted 6/1/08
- Zim hospitals, schools hike fees by 600 percent
- CIO Killed Christmas Reveller Over Alleged MDC Link
- Floods Cause Havoc Across the Country
- The Great Food Trek
- Zimbabwe sees sharp drop in gold output
- A letter from the diaspora
- ICC warns England over Zimbabwe exclusion
- Politics Before Wicket
- Brown is not in charge
- Flooding Cuts Beira-Zimbabwe Road
- Water Woes Produce Outbreaks Of Diarrheal Disease In Harare Suburbs
- Zimbabwe Cash Crisis Seen Lasting With Too Little Cash In Circulation
- Pessimism And Hope For Zimbabwe Mingle In Forecasts For 2008
- Zimbabweans told they cannot stay
- Batch 1 Posted 6/1/08
- Why Gono's 'sunrise' has turned to sunset
- Prospects for free, fair poll still dim
- Hero status delays anger mourners
- Fugitive MP accuses RBZ of 'shady deals'
- Furore over prison deaths
- Beware of the 'Four brothers and a sister'
- Villagers trade in Rand
- Health sector: dying slowly from arrears
- Zapu-FP in leadership wrangle
- Zanu PF shuts out 'hostile' NGOs from rural areas
- Zanu PF councillor charged with stealing food aid
- Diaspora groups show interest in Africa's development
- Skills migration set to continue
- Blackout riles Bvumba hoteliers
- Inflation gobbles up Bacossi funding
- 2008: 'Aluta continua' for the workers
- Let those guilty ones get their come uppance
- Politics brewed in an African pot
- Obama, Odinga, Zuma: what do they represent to the future of Africa?
- Provision of external voting facilities gives credibility to election process
- Fiddler
- Zim Standard Letters
- Posted 5/1/08
- Zimbabwe: hard life, high risk
- Top MDC strategists meet to plan for 2008
- Doctors and nurses deny calling off strike
- Money for nothing
- Zim parks to sell elephant biltong
- Diarrhoea outbreak hits Zimbabwe's capital
- Death toll rises in Zim, Mozambique floods
- The Zimbabwe dollar is the symbol of the country's nationhood and sovereignty!
- Meeting Lifts Lid On Land Chaos, Corruption
- Muckraker - How Zanu PF Stole Christmas
- Shameless Propaganda
- Overdue New Year resolution
- Valuable Time Lost in Queues
- SA gets tough on Zim student visas
- ZANU PF secures 60 places at Rhodes University
- Desperate ZESA instals four generators in Hwange
- ZANU (PF) conflict continues
- Country Set to Lose U.S.$60 Million Diamond Project
- Nervous times for under-fire Chingoka
- Batch 4 Posted 4/1/08
- Cabinet blocks Gono
- 'Talks on brink of collapse'
- 'Butau did not get political asylum'
- MDC meets for re-unification talks
- School fees up 600%
- Parly to grill Gono over cash barons
- MDC accuses Mohadi of lying over violence
- Judicial strike enters fourth month
- Govt named in Mawere empire grab
- Another farming disaster looms
- Isn't it time to quit, Gono?
- Hit song 'Cash Crisis' jingles on
- MDC must tread with caution
- Zim Independent Letters
- Batch 3 Posted 4/1/08
- ZANU-PF split looms
- War vet Sibanda’s suspension set to be lifted
- Butau holder of valid UK Visa
- ZANU-PF Byo heavies face their Waterloo
- ZCTU unveils new stance on polls
- Madzongwe in selfish call for end to strike
- No water in Byo despite recent rains
- ZANU-PF, MDC talks in deadlock
- Mixed feelings on Zim’s economy in 2008
- The sanction hype and human suffering
- Cash crisis: No end in sight
- It’s not looking good
- Govt by propaganda admission of failure
- Lid on inflation data leaves market confused
- Tourism personnel join exodus to greener pastures
- FinGaz Letters
- Batch 2 Posted 4/1/08
- Mbeki asked to break talks deadlock
- Lawyer says ZANU PF official eyeing Chegutu farm
- UK denies offering safe haven to Zimbabwean criminals
- With S. Africa's Mbeki Politically Beset, Zimbabwe Crisis Talks On Hold
- Zimbabwe Health Experts Predict a Gloomy 2008 As Medical Services Collapse
- Cash-Poor Zimbabweans Turn To Parallel Market To Procure Bank Notes
- Zimbabwe's Lower Courts In Turmoil As Magistrates Strike Enters Ninth Week
- Tsvangirai, Sibanda differ on MDC unity
- Continued Floods Leave An Estimated 10,000 Zimbabweans Homeless
- Zimbabwe Vigil - Feedback from the Lisbon Trip - 3rd January 2008
- Zimbabwe offered 2012 deal to cancel cricket
- Chingoka flies in for talks with ICC chief Mali
- Are elections in Africa really necessary or a waste of time?
- Posted 4/1/08
- Gono warns banks on money-laundering
- Unpacking the Butau-Gono Forex and Cash Scanda
- Brown set to ban Zimbabwe cricket team from UK
- China pledges 5,000 tonnes of food aid to Zimbabwe
- Harare power utility chief suspended
- JAG says white farmers under intense pressure to leave farms
- Zim opposition threaten to boycott poll
- NCA takes voter education programme to Zanu-PF strongholds
- Lessons from Kenya
- Mawere exposes Gono propaganda
- Doctors and nurses strike continues
- Some Zimbabwean doctors back at work, union says
- Deposed bishop still vexes Zimbabwe
- Government should have taken tough stance on Zimbabwe sooner
- Pain of Winning And Not Taking Power
- Posted 3/1/08
- Zimbabwe's opposition wants new laws before vote
- Zimbabwe banknote crisis spills into New Year
- Zimbabwe Central Bank Changes Rules Again
- Air Zim told to raise standards or face deregistration
- White farmer gets 48-hour notice to vacate farm
- We will not take part in election ritual to legitimise Mugabe: Tsvangirai
- Zim floods displace hundreds
- UK supermarket embroiled in controversy over fish from Zimbabwe
- Tilapia from Kariba, Zimbabwe
- Democracy: Africa's elusive dream?
- The crisis in Kenya leaves a guilty stain on the west
- Fears of Rwanda and Zimbabwe propel pressure
- Floods Maroon Villagers, Livestock in Chipinge
- Zimbabwe at the crossroads - The privatisation of the state
- "Allow Diaspora vote, or risk protests in all Zim embassies throughout the world"-US Forum
- Zim refugees flood into SA causing ‘national concern‘
- Endemic corruption now a significant and real threat to the nation's well being
- Zimbabwe Civic Group Embarks on a Voter Education Program
- Operation Against Foreign Currency Dealers Launched
- Election date remains sticking point between Zanu-PF and MDC
- Bulilima MP in Rallying Call for MDC Factions to Unite
- Posted 2/1/08
- Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai Urges Full Reunification Of Fractured Opposition
- Cash Shortages Loom As Persistent Problem For Zimbabwean Economy
- Supermarket flies fish 5,000 miles from country where millions are starving... in the name of ecology
- Sokwanele: Zimbabwe Election Watch : Issue 14
- With Labor Talks Under Way, Zimbabwe Hospital Residents Back To Work
- Upsurge In Rhino Poaching In Zimbabwe
- Illegal export trade booms in Zimbabwe
- WHO issues malaria warning for southern Africa
- Zimbabwe stock exchange grows by over 300,000 per cent, report says
- Zimbabwe to curb sexist music lyrics
- Analysts Find Lessons For Zimbabwe's Opposition In Kenyan Election
- Kenya on the brink of civil war
- Why democracy is crippled in Kenya
- Posted 1/1/08
- Chaos at banks as Zimbabwe extends currency deadline
- Zimbabwe cash crisis persists
- Corrupt Bank Employees Face the Chop
- Zimbabweans rush to hand in expiring bank notes
- Zim points fingers at Britain
- $10bn Cash Deal - Magistrate Blasts Police, RBZ
- 63 people die on Zimbabwe’s roads
- Mugabe interview on Africa Channel blasted as propaganda
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