Harare, Zimbabwe News

PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday delivered a speech in Harare at a special Council of Ministers to adopt the 2012 Government Work Programme , saying key priorities for the current administration remain the need to promote economic growth and ensure food security.

THE inquest into former army commander General Solomon Mujuru's death ended this week at the Magistrate's Court, with sharper contradictions and inconsistencies, deepening suspicions of foul play.

CONCERNS over Zimbabwe's indigenisation programme are stalling the country's efforts to lure independent power producers , who are desperately needed to lift Zimbabwe's electrical power output, which is critical to the revival of the country's industry and economy.

Police details ordered everyone out of the building just after 11AM saying the courts had been shut down due to a suspected cholera and typhoid outbreak.

President Mugabe shares a light moment with PM Tsvangirai and his deputy, Arthur Mutambara, after giving their end of year message to the nation, at Zimbabwe House in Harare, Dec.

HARARE, 10 February 2012 - Thousands of Zimbabwean households are feeling the effects of lost remittances from family members forcibly returned from neighbouring South Africa since that country resumed deportations of undocumented Zimbabwean migrants in October 2011.

They filed in, summoned by the booming voice of the announcer: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a call for passengers travelling on Air Zimbabwe flight UM700 to Harare.

Pascale Armand plays Jekesai, later christened as Ester, who's taken in by a black Catholic missionary when she flees an arranged marriage in 1890s Rhodesia.

Durban activist and academic Patrick Bond has been barred from delivering an address as part of a series of lectures in Harare.

"Chitungwiza Town Council is failing to provide us with water to the extent that sometimes we spend a week without the precious liquid.

Unemployment blamed on poor resource allocation Thursday, 09 February 2012 00:00 Herald Reporters YOUTH unemployment in Africa is a manifestation of inequitable allocation of resources, President Mugabe has said.

Air Zimbabwe, that country's long-embattled flag carrier, has suspended flights and will likely file for bankruptcy .

TEN Zimbabweans died on the spot, while 15 others were seriously injured when a Harare-bound Iveco minibus collided with a haulage truck 25km outside Makhadho town along the N1 Highway in South Africa early yesterday morning.

In this photo supplied by Mwanga Lodge, Shamva, Zimbabwe, a baby elephant is bottle fed by a carer shortly before falling ill late last month, Jan.

Health and Child Welfare Minister Dr Henry Madzorera has said that the typhoid outbreak is due to people eating human waste.

Death. Gen Mujuru died after fire gutted his farmhouse outside Harare and his wife, also a veteran of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, said she suspected foul play.

Teachers who served as polling agents and presiding officers during elections were routinely questioned by security agents after the polls, while a vetting process before the elections qualified only those considered "politically correct" by ZANU PF.

Emirates, one of the world's fastest growing airlines, has extended its reach into Africa with the launch of a new linked service to Lusaka and Harare.

The frightened young heroine of "The Convert," an ambitious and mostly absorbing new play by Danai Gurira having its premiere at the McCarter Theater Center here, finds Jesus in a quick flash.

A Zimbabwean policeman walks past the burnt home of retired army general Solomon Mujuru in Beatrice Farm, an area about 65km south of the capital Harare.