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Posted by ZDN on May 10, 2010
Heard from a friendly source: retired policemen are being recruited now. Apparently Police Commissioner Chihuri has issued a directive to pump the number up to 50,000 members of the police force by year end - from the current 22,000. No prizes for guessing why. Surveys show that between 6% and 24% only would vote for Zanu PF in an election: the problem is, hardly anyone is on the voters' ...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on April 9, 2010
Unilever's workers complain that the company is struggling to produce soap and detergents in their Zimbabwe factory because the government taxes the imported raw materials. Retail shops, however, bringing in basic items from South Africa, don't have to pay any duty. Talk about exporting jobs! Word is spreading like wildfire that more diamonds have been discovered about three meters away f...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on March 15, 2010
15 March 2010 Tsk, tsk. Apparently Robert Mugabe is able to discipline an entire nation but not the children in his own household. Mugabe has recently been embarrassed by DisGrace's son, who was expelled from St George's College for being 'disruptive'. The miscreant pupil then managed to get accepted (probably under duress) at St John's, another posh independent school - where rumour has it he...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on March 11, 2010
Read it first here! We name names and repeat allegations and gossip that cannot be published in conventional papers - the word on the street and the stuff whispered by 'an eyewitness', a 'reliable source' or 'someone you know who has connections'. Rumour and street-news is a favourite national pastime in Zimbabwe and we think it deserves it's own space. Because there is no smoke without fire! ...
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