By Kenneth Chikanga South African farmers who lost land under Zimbabwe's controversial land acquisition policy could get some of their land back as soon as President Robert Mugabe's government has finished a land audit of the land redistribution exercise.

After the beatings by President Robert Mugabe's policemen, the overcrowded, lice-ridden jail cells, the degradation of nightly strip-searches, Jenni Williams and Magondonga Mahlangu still cling to hope for Zimbabwe.

The country continues to go through traumatic experiences and shameful happenings, such as the unnecessary attack on Father Wolfgang Thamm last week.

The recent "suicide" of a senior army officer in the wake of a break-in at a military armoury in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, is sowing fears that the missing guns may be used to fuel instability.

Zimbabwe's lower house of Parliament on Wednesday passed a Bill to reform central bank operations that will reduce the powers of its governor, blamed by critics for the country's economic crisis.

Via The Washington Times :A Her hair tightly woven into an African-style braid, Jenni Williams raises her arm in the air as she asks the crowd at a popular Washington cafe to chant "the healing wind of WOZA." The phrase has been repeated over and over since 2002 by women protesting against the government on the streets of Bulawayo, the ...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has defended jailed killer "Carlos the Jackal" and several world leaders he says are wrongly considered "bad guys". In a speech to international socialist politicians, Mr Chavez said "Carlos", a Venezuelan, was not a terrorist but a key "revolutionary fighter". He is serving a life sentence in France for murders ...

The Casablanca connection Courtesy of the Zimbabwe Herald IN 1978 Abel Muzorewa and Ndabaningi Sithole signed an agreement with Ian Smith to extirpate on the people of this land a mongrel offspring called Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. Muzorewa was without political guile and for that reason he thought he could convince independence-hungry Zimbabweans that his ...

ONE of the key roles of Parliament, according to the Constitution of Zimbabwe, is that of making laws for the peace, order and good of the country.

A top official from the mainstream MDC on Thursday said there were doubts Robert Mugabe would implement the Global Political Agreement, even if party negotiators manage to strike a deal.

The German embassy has sent a protest note to the Zimbabwean government after armed soldiers at a military barracks northwest of Harare harassed and beat up a German Jesuit priest.

By MacDonald Dzirutwe Harare - Lawyers for senior MDC official Roy Bennett on Thursday accused Zimbabwe's police of parading in court weapons not related to his terrorism trial in a bid to whip up public sentiment against him.

There were wry smiles at many Zimbabwean breakfast tables this week when it was announced in the government press that President Robert Mugabe is attending the Rome summit of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation.

Investigators for the world's diamond control body say the gems were mined by virtual slaves who had been told to dig or die, and were smuggled out by soldiers who rape and beat civilians.

Harare - Zimbabwe's lower house of parliament on Wednesday passed a bill to reform central bank operations that will reduce the powers of its governor, blamed by critics for the country's economic crisis.

A Zimbabwean MP shocked parliament when he produced evidence that the voter's roll used in last year's elections had names of hundreds of dead people who had been registered to vote.

THE young gun Wallabies flanker who lived that tag at just 12 with a loaded shotgun beside his bed is ready to produce the biggest Test of his life in Dublin tomorrow morning.

Leber Jeweler Inc., a third-generation, family-owned business wholly dedicated to socially responsible jewelry, is expressing outrage over the decision by the Kimberley Process governing body to allow Zimbabwe to remain a member in good standing, despite alleged human rights violations directly tied to the country's diamond mining industry.

RICH countries' agricultural subsidies and denial of market access to produce from developing countries were partly to blame for low crop production in developing nations, President Mugabe has said.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe used the U.N. summit on world hunger Tuesday to lash out at the West and defend land reforms blamed for plunging his people into starvation.