Zimbabwe News

HEADLINES author/source:Bloomberg It will effectively put a halt to any further investment in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe passed a law that compels all businesses with assets worth more than $500,000 to be 51 percent black-owned within five years, according to a copy of the law distributed by Harare-based Veritas Trust.

Two executives of a South African firm were arrested in Zimbabwe on Tuesday on charges of stealing diamonds from the controversial Chiadzwa diamond fields.

White-owned companies in Zimbabwe are to be forced to hand majority control to black businessmen in a move that could lead to chaos rivalling the seizure of the country's commercial farms.

Harare councillors are allegedly employing dirty tactics to outflank each other to lead the standing committees in the city council.

"No disruption to learning" touts a newspaper ad for a new private Zimbabwean school, one of many springing up in living rooms, backyards and plots across Harare.

CIVIL servants in Zimbabwe yesterday began a potentially crippling strike until the inclusive government pays them a minimum salary of US $630 per month.

HARARE, Zimbabwe White businesspeople in Zimbabwe who don'4 cede control of their companies to black partners could face jail under a law going into effect nex4 month.

Government operations came to a halt on Monday as the country's civil servants went on strike demanding better wages.

CCZ Executive Director Rosemary Siyachitema said retailers have lifted prices in expectation of higher salaries for state employees Gibbs Dube Washington Photo: AP A man checks his grain after receiving it through the charity organization, Oxfam International, at a distribution center in Chirumhanzi, south east of Harare The Consumer Council of ...

The energy levels could not be contained; they danced, sung and there was lyrical delirium from the sistaz on the 3rd Birthday Bash in January.

Controversy deepened Monday over the Zimbabwean government's handling of the Chiadzwa diamond field in the eastern Zimbabwe, with revelations of serious irregularities by the mines minister and the South African companies involved.

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said the Zimbabwean Cabinet was deeply divided on the way forward regarding debt clearance and called upon his ministers to shun political divisions Ntungamili Nkomo Washington 04 February 2010 Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday urged the unity government partners in Harare to set aside their ...

HEADLINES author/source:Sapa published:Thu 4-Feb-2010 posted on this site:Thu 4-Feb-2010 Made off with computers and a new pick-up truck.

Racism and illegal Anglo-Saxon sanctions against Zim AFRICAN FOCUS By Tafataona P. Mahoso Zimbabwe Sunday Mail Professor Jonathan Moyo's intervention in The Herald of February 4 2010 suggests that the sanctions issue and the imminent change in the Anglo-Saxon strategy on Zimbabwe will render MDC-T dispensable and disposable in the eyes of its white ...

Botswana this week recalled two senior diplomats based in Zimbabwe as the diplomatic row over three Batswana rangers arrested for entering Zimbabwe illegally escalated.

A young woman from Munyoro area of Mutare District on Sunday confessed to being a witch before a chief's court, claiming that she and her uncle had used two snakes .

SHIVERS appear to be running down the spine of diplomats in Harare and well-informed Zimbabweans in general who have manage to evade government`s grip on information amid reports of massive weapon purchases by Zimbabwe's defense forces commander, Constantine Chiwenga.

Dukwi Police have seized a shotgun that was allegedly used to shoot and injure an illegal migrant who tried to elude a police raid at Kutamogore village.

A recent report has revealed that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is so paranoid about his security during his foreign visits that he pays a special allowance of 5,000 dollars a day to his guards.

Harare- A 29-kilogram consignment of diamonds from Zimbabwe's controversial Chiadzwa diamond field has disappeared after being removed on Thursday night by police from the central bank, in violation of orders by the country's supreme court, lawyers said at the weekend.