Annual inflation in Zimbabwe passes 11 million percent
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:05:53 -0400
The official inflation rate in the African nation Zimbabwe has now exceeded 11 million percent.

New Zealand premier likens Fiji to Zimbabwe
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:02:39 -0400
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said Wednesday the situation in Fiji, whose military ruler has boycotted a regional summit meeting, was like Zimbabwe in the lead-up to its suspension from the British Commonwealth.

Zimbabwean parliament to convene next week
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:00:57 -0400
Zimbabwe's parliament will convene next week almost five months after the elections, with state radio Tuesday quoting parliament clerk Austin Zvoma saying that preparations were at 'an advanced stage'.

Zimbabwe inflation now 11.2 million per cent!
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:01:01 -0400
London, Aug.20 : Zimbabwe's official inflation rate has soared to more than 11.2 million per cent.

Negotiating with hostage-taker Mugabe sends a terrible message to tyrants
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:57:18 -0400
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Fiji like Zimbabwe, says Clark
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:57:20 -0400
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark says the situation over Fiji is reminiscent of Zimbabwe in the run-up to its suspension from the Commonwealth. Fiji's interim prime minister, Commmodore Frank Ba...

Tougher Time As Inflation Surges
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:57:21 -0400
SW Radio Africa (London) The economic crisis in Zimbabwe is worsening, with no solution in sight. People are struggling to eke out a living as the rate for the Zimbabwean dollar continues to collapse....

Manicaland Province Under Siege By War Veterans And Militia
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:43:00 -0400
The violence and intimidation against MDC activists has continued in Zimbabwe as efforts to reach a power sharing arrangement between the opposition and ZANU PF have thus far failed.

Zimbabwe inflation over 11-million percent
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:40:26 -0400
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Onus is on SADC to Dump Mugabe and Save a Nation [opinion]
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:57:22 -0400
Business Day (Johannesburg) WHILE everyone is surely anxious to see the Zimbabwe negotiations succeed in bringing relief to the long-suffering people of that country, it is nonetheless galling that th...

Tsvangirai to Seek Help From SADC Leaders to Avert Food Crisis
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:42:58 -0400
MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai has emabarked on a regional tour to urge SADC leaders to help end the misery in the country by asking them to apply pressure on Robert Mugabe to allow food aid to flow ...

Elephants slaughtered at alarming rate in Zimbabwe
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:13:27 -0400
Zimbabwe's once thriving wildlife and tourism industry is under serious threat as authorities continue to kill elephants and other animals at an alarming rate.Johnny Rodrigues, the chairman for the Zi...

Tsvangirai Meets Khama on Talks Impasse
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:19:13 -0400
Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of Zimbabwean opposition Party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), is in Botswana to have talks with President Ian Khama.

Cape Trio Off to Play in Country
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:42:57 -0400
The Cape Town-based Botswana trio of Dipsy Selolwane (Ajax Cape Town), Jerome Ramatlhakwana and Mogogi Gabonamong (both Santos), left today to join the Botswana national team at the Johannesburg airpo...

Magistrate Dismisses Case Against MDC-MP Elect Ian Kay
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:42:56 -0400
MDC-MP elect for Marondera Central in Mashonaland East province, Ian Kay, is a free man after a magistrate threw out state charges levelled against him for allegedly inciting violence in his constitue...

Mugabe Now Has Support, Claims Harare
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:42:53 -0400
The Zimbabwean government today claimed that African leaders were warming up to President Robert Mugabe after realising that they were misled by the opposition on his re-election.

Mugabe to reconvene parliament
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:21:24 -0400
President Robert Mugabe will convene Zimbabwe's parliament next week, despite an agreement reached with opposition leaders to delay resitting parliament until negotiations mediated by President Thabo ...

Zimbabwe inflation hits 11,2m%
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:21:22 -0400
Harare - Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate soared to 11,2-million % in June, state media has reported. 'Annual rate of inflation surged in June to 11,2-million%,' The Herald reported yesterday. 'It gai...

Zimbabwe inflation tops 11 mil. percent as talks drag
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:03:36 -0400
sening economic disaster in the absence of a deal to end the political crisis. A month after they began, power-sharing talks between President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF and Morgan Tsvangirai's op...

Zimbabwe annual inflation rate soars to 11.2 million percent
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:09:13 -0400
Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate soared to 11.2 million percent in June, state media reported yesterday quoting figures from the central statistical agency."Zimbabwe's annual rate of inflation surged ...

Mugabe Has No Intention of Sharing Power
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:24:25 -0400
Negotiations held under the auspices of the Southern African Development Community have thus failed to achieve a 'power-sharing' agreement between Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe and opposition lead...

Zimbabwe calls death of Mugabe critic Mwanawasa "a tragedy"
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:24:22 -0400
Harare - Zimbabwe's government on Tuesday called the death of Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, a vocal critic of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, 'a tragedy.' 'It's a real tragedy for the entire c...

Zimbabwe Parliamentary Official Says Two Houses To Convene Next Week
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:01:23 -0400
Political analyst John Makumbe, a professor at the University of Zimbabwe, told reporter Ntungamili Nkomo of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe that the government's decision to convene parliament could end...

Zimbabwe inflation gets out of control
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:14:58 -0400
Official figures dated yesterday indicate that inflation has surged from the rate of 2.2 million percent recorded in May, despite government's price controls. Zimbabwe's finance minister, Samuel Mumbe...

Mugabe critic Mwanawasa of Zambia dies after stroke - Summary
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:17:27 -0400
Johannesburg/Lusaka - World leaders on Tuesday eulogized Zambia's popular President Levy Mwanawasa, who died Tuesday at the age of 59 in a Paris hospital where he had been receiving treatment followin...

Zimbabwe power-sharing negotiations remain suspended
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:40:12 -0400
JOHANNESBURG (Thomson Financial) - Negotiations between Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF and opposition on power-sharing remained suspended on Tuesday, two days after a regional summit and the parties promis...

Mbeki set to travel to Harare for talks
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:07:45 -0400
Mbeki set to travel to Harare for talks   PRESIDENT MBEKI . . . spent four days in Zimbabwe last week    HARARE – South African President Thabo Mbeki is expected to travel to Zimbabwe this week...

The president who dared to criticise Mugabe
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:40:23 -0400
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, who died today aged 59, built a reputation as a darling of the West by daring to criticise Robert Mugabe and keeping a tight rein on his country's economy. A lawyer b...

Rights group says Zim in complex state of emergency
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:07:47 -0400
Rights group says Zim in complex state of emergencyJOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwe is in a 'complex state of emergency' where the government has declared war against its people while blocking critically nee...

Zimbabwean activists say violence continues
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:40:20 -0400
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - One of Zimbabwe's most respected rights groups says political violence is continuing, even as leaders haggle over how to share power. The independent Women of Zimbabw...

Zambian President Mwanawasa, first African leader to criticize Zimbabwean leader,
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:40:28 -0400
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) _ Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, whose criticism of the political and economic 'catastrophe' of neighboring Zimbabwe helped break the traditional silence of African leaders towa...

Zimbabwe inflation hits 11 mln pct as talks drag
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:25:15 -0400
+ ] By Nelson Banya HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's inflation rate rocketed to over 11 million percent in June in a sign of the worsening economic disaster in the absence of a deal to end its politi...

Tsvangirai to rally allies
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:40:17 -0400
By Stella Mapenzauswa Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will ask regional leaders to help resolve the deadlock in power-sharing talks with President Robert Mugabe's party, an opposition s...

Zimbabwe inflation hits 11 million percent as talks drag
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:47:48 -0400
By Dmitry SolovyovGORI, Georgia (Reuters) - A column of Russian tanks and armoured vehicles left the key Georgian town of Gori on Tuesday, but NATO said it was freezing contacts with Moscow until all ...

Zim inflation shoots to new world record
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:07:49 -0400
Zim inflation shoots to new world recordHARARE – Zimbabwe's annual inflation shot to 11.2 million percent in June, a new world record and an emphatic signal that President Robert Mugabe's government...

Inflation now 20 million percent
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:07:48 -0400
      Zim bank: Inflation now 20 million percent    HARARE – Zimbabwe's annual inflation is now more than 20 million percent, one of the country's leading banks has said, adding that a polit...

Zimbabwe Blames Runaway Inflation on Sanctions, Biofuel
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:40:19 -0400
Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Samuel Mumbengegwi blamed the surge in inflation on rising food prices and Western sanctions targeting the country's ruling elite in an interview on Tuesday, Aug. 19. Mumbe...

High-Density Residents Set to Pay Council Rates
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:57:27 -0400
The Herald (Harare) RESIDENTS of Harare's high-density suburbs who have for years been paying supplementary charges in place of rates will, with effect from next year, pay rates like their counterpart...

South African white maize exports drop
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:40:03 -0400
+ ] (Adds trader's comments, market close) By Muchena Zigomo JOHANNESBURG, Aug 19 (Reuters) - South Africa exported 29,801 tonnes of white maize in the week to Aug. 15, down from 52,707 tonnes i...

Zimbabwe inflation tops 11 million percent
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:57:53 -0400
By Dmitry SolovyovGORI, Georgia (Reuters) - A column of Russian tanks and armoured vehicles left the Georgian town of Gori on Tuesday, but Russian officials said the main withdrawal demanded by the We...

Fertilizer Firms Get Another U.S.$10 Million
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:57:25 -0400
The Herald (Harare) THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has already allocated an additional US$10 million to the fertilizer industry for next month's production. This was in line with the 2008 Mid-Term Monet...

Zimbabwe inflation rockets higher
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:06:31 -0400
The rate of inflation in Zimbabwe jumped to just over 11,250,000% in June, official figures show. "It gained 9,035,045.5 percentage points from the May rate of 2,233,713.4%," said state media quoti...

Three Vehicles Stolen at Gunpoint
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:57:22 -0400
The Herald (Harare) THREE vehicles, including a haulage truck, were stolen at gunpoint in separate incidents in Harare and Chivhu over the weekend as carjackings resurfaced. The vehicles - an Isuzu tw...

Zimbabwe inflation rockets to 11.27 million%
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:05:59 -0400
August 19, 2008, 10:30 Zimbabwe's annual inflation, already the highest in the world, jumped to 11.27 million% in June from 2.2 million the previous month, the Central Statistical Office (CSO) said t...

President Tsvangirai statement on the passing-on of His Excellency Dr Levy Patric Mwanawasa SC
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:17:46 -0400
As an individual and as a party, we have always hoped and prayed for his speedy recovery, Sadly he has left us at this most trying time. Dr Levy Pratric Mwanawasa SC was a champion of the democratisat...

MDC-T Leader Must Have Country at Heart [editorial]
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:00:11 -0400
We, however, do not lose sight of the fact that the inter-party talks did not begin after June 27. They began last year as part of the build-up to the historic harmonised elections of March 29, culmin...

14 injured in Byo-Beitbridge road accident
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:57:19 -0400
One person diad and 20 others sustained injuries in different road accidents in Jammu for the last 24 hours, official sources here said. ''One person identified as Rajesh Kumar, resident of Ghari Rehm...

Oxfarm concerned about closure of camps for foreign immigrants
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:17:44 -0400
JOHANNESBURG – A leading international relief agency has expressed concern at plans by South African officials to close down camps for foreign immigrants displaced by xenophobic violence that swept ...

Zimbabwe inflation tops 11 million per cent as talks drag
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:33:51 -0400
HARARE — Zimbabwe's inflation rate rocketed to over 11 million per cent in June in a sign of the worsening economic disaster in the absence of a deal to end the political crisis. A month after...

PCA team leaves for Zimbabwe, Kenya tours
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:57:28 -0400
AHORE: Pakistan Cricket Academy's 15-member team led by Khurram Manzoor has left for tours of Zimbabwe and Kenya today.Pakistani team will begin the tour from Zimbabwe where it is scheduled to play tw...

Mobile Phone Tariffs Go Up Again
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:57:18 -0400
The Herald (Harare) Mobile telecommunications companies have increased tariffs by over 1 000 percent in the latest round of increases. The three mobile telecommunications firms, Econet Wireless, Telec...

DA calls for direct AU and UN involvement in Zimbabwe mediation talks
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:17:43 -0400
JOHANNESBURG - The fact that South Africa took over the chairpersonship of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) from Zambia at last weekend's SADC summit in Sandton without a power-sharin...

Weep for US not Zimbabwe
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:57:23 -0400
Some weep for Zimbabwe. Some poke fun at its inflation rate which has led it to the removal of 10 zeroes from its currency. For some, it is an outrage; the problem is President Mugabe. He is a sit-tig...

Dru-Hill to Stage Gig in Zimbabwe
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:59:57 -0400
"The group recently reunited and as part of their reunification pact and international union tour, we have initiated with the group to include Zimbabwe as a premier destination," said Mataz.

Bus operators charge fares in forex
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:57:21 -0400
Bulawayo Bureau LONG-DISTANCE bus operators, particularly those plying the Harare-Bulawayo route, have joined the foreign currency craze, with some demanding as much as 120 rand per trip.The transport...

Zimbabwe inflation rate 11.2m per cent
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:17:58 -0400
per cent of the population living below the poverty threshold, often skipping meals and walking long distances to stretch their income.Earlier this month, Zimbabwe's central bank chief urged a six...

NRZ hikes commuter train fares again
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:57:26 -0400
Chronicle ReporterTHE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has once again increased commuter train fares. This time the fares have gone up from $5,20 to $23 per trip with effect from yesterday. The par...

Zimbabwe inflation rate hits 11.2 million percent
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:16:32 -0400
Harare, Aug 19 : Zimbabwe's inflation rate reached a new high of 11.2 million percent in June, state media reported, quoting figures from the central statistics office.

Zimbabwe Vigil Diary – 16th August 2008
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:17:47 -0400
The Vigil management team took soundings at the Vigil for a meeting afterwards.  Despite suggestions of progress at the talks between the MDC and Zanu-PF people remain skeptical that Mugabe will yiel...

Zimbabwe inflation rockets to 11.27 million percent
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:57:37 -0400
By Dmitry SolovyovGORI, Georgia (Reuters) - A column of Russian tanks and armoured vehicles left the Georgian town of Gori on Tuesday, but Russian officials said the main withdrawal demanded by the We...

Fungisai Ready to Take Up New Role
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:59:52 -0400
Asked if she was ready for the mammoth challenge, the singer said she was willing to tackle her new role in the society and she will use her career as a gospel musician to influence the reduction of H...

Medical superintendents bail application dismissed
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:57:24 -0400
Court ReporterBINDURA Provincial Hospital acting medical superintendent Beauty Basile, who is facing 135 counts of criminally abusing duty as a public officer, yesterday had her bail application dismi...

Woman Jailed 20 Years for Kidnapping Daughter
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:59:56 -0400
A HARARE woman was yesterday jailed for an effective 20 years for kidnapping her daughter's teenage friend, holding her for more than two months and indecently assaulting her on three occasions for pu...

The G8 Has No Right to Judge [opinion]
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:00:09 -0400
NONETHELESS, AS LONG AS the Security Council does notreform, it is the body that decides, for example, whether or not the internal situation in Zimbabwe constitutes a threat to international security.

S.African firms set to cash in on post-Mugabe deals
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:40:05 -0400
+ ] By Rebecca Harrison JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African companies -- used to working in risky African markets -- are poised to benefit from lucrative investment opportunities if a deal to e...

Willdale Moots Recapitalising Mt Hampden Plant
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:57:16 -0400
The Herald (Harare) WILLDALE says it is making plans to recapitalise its Mt Hampden plant, which once completed will see production capacity rising three-fold. In an interview with the Herald Business...

Anthem for Uncle Bob
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:17:40 -0400
Anthem for Uncle Bob he sings about how Mugabe rose to power on promises of a better life but turned against his people. He warns that the people will rise up against the revolutionary leader.

Zimbabwe must swallow bitter pill - analysts
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:08:14 -0400
March 5, 2008 By Godfrey Marawanyika Harare - Reviving Zimbabwe's moribund economy would require inflation-battered citizens to swallow the bitter pill of reduced state spending and higher interest ra...

Party Wants March 29 Presidential Poll Annulled
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:00:00 -0400
MINORITY political party leader Mr Justine Chiota is seeking an order setting aside the March 29 harmonised presidential election, after the Supreme Court ruled that his exclusion from contesting in t...

Illegal Panner Struck to Death With Iron Bars
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:59:48 -0400
Other panners, however, intervened and bludgeoned Chigodora with iron bars all over the body and he collapsed. They dragged him to a nearby shop belonging to Mr Christopher Gudo where they dumped him ...

Just Whose Tune is Tsvangirai Singing
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:59:43 -0400
A BBC reporter last week remarked: "Brave as he is, constancy is not one of Tsvangirai's virtues." Two days after the walkout from the meeting of all three principals, Tsvangirai was busy doing some d...

Inflation Surges to More Than 11 Million Percent
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:59:40 -0400
11 million in June; 20 million last month; 50 million this month!! Rome burns whilst the emperor fiddles! Tsvangerai knows full well that he cannot become PM without real executive power. Mugabe mus...